Re: Bug#594179: dpkg armhf patch acceptance status?

2011-02-18 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Guillem, Thanks for letting us know your thoughts. On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:13:11AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > * The assumption that each GNU triplet denotes a different ABI is so > entrenched in the GNU build system, that we have things like the > following all over the place to prop

Re: flashing fails due to size issue during upgrade

2011-02-18 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On 02/18/2011 11:48 AM, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: On 02/18/2011 11:22 AM, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: Hi everyone, [...snip prev msg...] [...snip...] Are all these drivers really necessary? By configureing the initramfs system, the size can be reduced, e.g. edit /etc/initramfs-tools/initramf

Re: Bug#594179: dpkg armhf patch acceptance status?

2011-02-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 01:30:19PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 18.02.2011 11:13, Guillem Jover wrote: > >[ CCing Matthias, as I'd like your opinion on my proposed solution > > involving some Debian gcc changes. ] > The armhf patch for gcc looks ok, however I would like to see this > better

Re: flashing fails due to size issue during upgrade

2011-02-18 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On 02/18/2011 11:22 AM, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: Hi everyone, [...snip prev msg...] After unpacking the initrd in order to look where the space is going, I see: du -sm * 2 bin 1 conf 1 etc 1 init 14 lib 2 sbin 1 scripts And working my way down I get t

flashing fails due to size issue during upgrade

2011-02-18 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Hi everyone, One of my slugs is still in the process of upgrading but I noticed that during the setting up of the 2.6.32-5 kernel that the flashing failed due to (output message): Running update-initramfs. update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-ixp4xx Running flash-kernel. The

Re: bootstrapping debian was: dpkg armhf patch acceptance status

2011-02-18 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On 18 February 2011 17:10, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > can we drop this now please? > Definitely.

Re: bootstrapping debian was: dpkg armhf patch acceptance status

2011-02-18 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > On 18 February 2011 16:31, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > wrote: >> >>  nope.  don't want arguments / discussions in an environment where the >> sponsors, genesi usa, would quite likely be happy if i was dead. >> > No, we just disa

Re: bootstrapping debian was: dpkg armhf patch acceptance status

2011-02-18 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On 18 February 2011 16:31, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > nope. don't want arguments / discussions in an environment where the > sponsors, genesi usa, would quite likely be happy if i was dead. > > No, we just disagree. This is very unjust to say, and anyway, we're just ONE of the sponsor

Re: bootstrapping debian was: dpkg armhf patch acceptance status

2011-02-18 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Wookey wrote: > There is nothing wrong with the idea of using bitbake to bootstrap > Debian, except that what you end up with is a set of fixes outside the > Debian packaging. there are clear reasons for why that has to be the case, which we've gone over before.

Re: bootstrapping debian was: dpkg armhf patch acceptance status

2011-02-18 Thread Wookey
+++ Riku Voipio [2011-02-18 11:53 +0200]: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 04:27:52AM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > precisely. this is another, (clearer or at least different) way of > > stating what i've been advocating. by having such a delta-maintaining > > tool, complex sets of del

Re: Bug#594179: dpkg armhf patch acceptance status?

2011-02-18 Thread Matthias Klose
On 18.02.2011 11:13, Guillem Jover wrote: [ CCing Matthias, as I'd like your opinion on my proposed solution involving some Debian gcc changes. ] The armhf patch for gcc looks ok, however I would like to see this better addressed in Linaro and/or upstream. Yes but x86 goes to the other

Re: Bug#594179: dpkg armhf patch acceptance status?

2011-02-18 Thread Guillem Jover
[ CCing Matthias, as I'd like your opinion on my proposed solution involving some Debian gcc changes. ] Hi! On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 12:27:30 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > Trying to kick the dust a bit as having the triplet "in the air" is > kind of an unhappy situation for armhf :-) I think it

Re: dpkg armhf patch acceptance status?

2011-02-18 Thread Riku Voipio
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 04:27:52AM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > precisely. this is another, (clearer or at least different) way of > stating what i've been advocating. by having such a delta-maintaining > tool, complex sets of deltas can be maintained indefinitely, or in > fact c

Re: dpkg armhf patch acceptance status?

2011-02-18 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On 18 February 2011 06:27, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > ... and in the meantime, markos is under pressure to manually > maintain everything _without_ a delta-management tool, which puts > ongoing and ever-increasing pressure on what he can reasonably handle, > whilst those discussions ar