Re: device tree not the answer in the ARM world [was: Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard]

2013-05-08 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/08/2013 03:19:23 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Rob Landley wrote: >> whereas the EOMA initiative is at the complete opposite end of the >> spectrum. and products based around the EOMA standards, although >> there is a cost overhead of e.g. aroun

Re: apt-get /lib/ld-linux.so.3 deletion screwup disaster

2013-05-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 02:23:19PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: >On Wednesday 08 May 2013, Wookey wrote: >> >> Don't forget to re-install everything, not just stuff that has a new >> verison number (dpkg --reinstall, probably combined with a >--reinstall does not exist in either the command help

Re: apt-get /lib/ld-linux.so.3 deletion screwup disaster

2013-05-08 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 08 May 2013, Wookey wrote: > +++ Phil Endecott [2013-05-08 09:13 +]: > > Wookey wookware.org> writes: > > > Your original install was built before the name for the armhf linker > > > was agreed between distros. Once it was agreed (with a different path > > > to the one Debian orig

Re: apt-get /lib/ld-linux.so.3 deletion screwup disaster

2013-05-08 Thread Wookey
+++ Phil Endecott [2013-05-08 09:13 +]: > Wookey wookware.org> writes: > > Your original install was built before the name for the armhf linker > > was agreed between distros. Once it was agreed (with a different path > > to the one Debian originally picked) everything had to be > > (incompati

Re: apt-get /lib/ld-linux.so.3 deletion screwup disaster

2013-05-08 Thread peter green
Phil Endecott wrote: Hmmm. It's disappointing that apt didn't know about this. Isn't this sort of compatibility between packages exactly the sort of thing that it is supposed to track? One option in theory would be a massive breaks list in the new libc package. I'm not sure howwell tools w

Re: uboot safe for Wheezy on TS-219P?

2013-05-08 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Mark Small [2013-05-08 06:33]: > Am I safe to upgrade? Yes. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201305081115

uboot safe for Wheezy on TS-219P?

2013-05-08 Thread Mark Small
Hi there, I'm getting ready to upgrade my QNAP TS-219P to wheezy, and I want to be sure that everything will go as planned. I'm a little spooked by Martin Michlmayr's post: http://www.cyrius.com/journal/debian/wheezy-upgrade.tbm In it he says that people with plug computers need to be carefu

Re: apt-get /lib/ld-linux.so.3 deletion screwup disaster

2013-05-08 Thread Phil Endecott
Wookey wookware.org> writes: > +++ Phil Endecott [2013-05-07 20:36 +]: > > > I eventually discovered that things would run if I invoked the dynamic > > linker directly: > > > > # /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3 /bin/ls > > > > I was then able to establish that my existing executables want a dynami

Re: device tree not the answer in the ARM world [was: Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard]

2013-05-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 09:19:23AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Rob Landley wrote: > > >> whereas the EOMA initiative is at the complete opposite end of the > >> spectrum. and products based around the EOMA standards, although > >> there is a cost

Re: device tree not the answer in the ARM world [was: Re: running Debian on a Cubieboard]

2013-05-08 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Rob Landley wrote: >> whereas the EOMA initiative is at the complete opposite end of the >> spectrum. and products based around the EOMA standards, although >> there is a cost overhead of e.g. around $6 in parts for EOMA-68, there >> is a whopping great saving of