more upx problems

2008-07-25 Thread Joey Hess
The hd-media image no longer boots on my main test box (HP thin client). Immediate reboot after syslinux finishes loading the initrd and kernel. Netboot still works ok. I turned off upx, and that fixed the issue. And yeah, we're upxing this image too, it's built by the same code path t

Re: Bug#416848: Outdated upx-ucl-beta package

2007-03-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 31 March 2007 10:16, Robert Luberda wrote: > I think upx-ucl-beta is still being used for building the Debian > installer. Could the Installer Team, please, confirm that? Yes, that is correct. Waiting until after the release is final would be appreciated. Cheer

Re: Bug#416848: Outdated upx-ucl-beta package

2007-03-31 Thread Robert Luberda
Alexandre Pereira Nunes wrote: Hi, > Package: upx-ucl-beta > > Please update to 2.93 on the unstable distribution. I will do after etch is released. I think upx-ucl-beta is still being used for building the Debian installer. Could the Installer Team, please, confirm that? Be

Re: Build conflicts: upx-ucl-beta (>= 1.93)

2004-10-12 Thread Joey Hess
Geert Stappers wrote: > I'm sorry to, but I did get a build conflict. > Install the 1:1.91+cvs and see what happens Ok, fixed. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Build conflicts: upx-ucl-beta (>= 1.93)

2004-10-12 Thread Geert Stappers
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 02:05:03PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Geert Stappers wrote: > > Hello, > > > > A new build got me: > > > > Build conflicts: upx-ucl-beta (>= 1.93) > > > > > > Looking further brougth me to installer/debian/cha

Re: Build conflicts: upx-ucl-beta (>= 1.93)

2004-10-11 Thread Joey Hess
Geert Stappers wrote: > Hello, > > A new build got me: > > Build conflicts: upx-ucl-beta (>= 1.93) > > > Looking further brougth me to installer/debian/changelog with > > - upx-ucl-beta 1.93 is broken. Avoid building with this version via > Buil

Build conflicts: upx-ucl-beta (>= 1.93)

2004-10-11 Thread Geert Stappers
Hello, A new build got me: Build conflicts: upx-ucl-beta (>= 1.93) Looking further brougth me to installer/debian/changelog with - upx-ucl-beta 1.93 is broken. Avoid building with this version via Build-Conflicts. The safe version to use, 1.91, is in testing. Closes: #275

Re: Upx to compress bzimages?

2003-01-30 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:51:12 -0700 Erik Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The kernel compresses itself using gzip, so upx isn't likely to > be useful there. It would be much more useful when used on the > rest of userspace. Though I suspect you would get better results &

Re: Upx to compress bzimages?

2003-01-30 Thread Mario Lang
Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I decided to check out Upx after finding the folling in > debian-isntaller/doc/README: [...] > I checked, and the version in Sid (1.24) is only able to compress ELF > binaries. When I tried it on the kernel, it printed thi

Re: Upx to compress bzimages?

2003-01-29 Thread Erik Andersen
On Thu Jan 30, 2003 at 07:15:30AM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: > > Have anyone used upx successfully with d-i? > > > > I had a go at it the other day. > > I think vmlinuz is the compressed kernel, you should run it on an > uncompressed kernel, i.e. vmlinux > > I

Re: Upx to compress bzimages?

2003-01-29 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:31:21 +0100 Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # upx tmp/vmlinuz >Ultimate Packer for eXecutables >Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 > UPX 1.24 Markus F.X.J. Oberhum

Upx to compress bzimages?

2003-01-29 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
I decided to check out Upx after finding the folling in debian-isntaller/doc/README: Upx can compress bzimages. They're still bootable, and up to 100k might be saved this way. http://upx.sourceforge.net/ I checked, and the version in Sid (1.24) is only able to compress ELF binaries. W

Re: [PATCH;debian-installer/doc/README] Correct URL to upx

2001-11-23 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Karl M. Hegbloom wrote on Thu Nov 22, 2001 um 10:44:40PM: > --- doc/README2001/01/04 04:29:00 1.7 > +++ doc/README2001/11/23 06:43:33 > @@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ >Majong game at the end also. > >Upx can compress bzimages. They're still b

Re: [PATCH;debian-installer/doc/README] Correct URL to upx

2001-11-23 Thread Eduard Bloch
yet. Wrote a note to one of the upstream authors. > % apt-cache search upx > upx-ucl - an efficient live-compressor for executables free, but old. Still useable, but only in user-space and needs temporary disk-space for decompressing. > upx-nrv - an efficient live-compressor for executable

PS (Re: [PATCH;debian-installer/doc/README] Correct URL to upx)

2001-11-23 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
... I should wake up before I write email. I see now. You are trying to build a newer version of it. Uhhmmm... let me guess. The kernel compression only works in the newer one? -- I was Linux when Linux wasn't cool. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: [PATCH;debian-installer/doc/README] Correct URL to upx

2001-11-23 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
>>>>> "Eduard" == Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eduard> Remember, the precompiled UPX stuff is non-free, since the Eduard> closed source NRV lib is used for compression, and the Eduard> free version 1.2 cannot be compiled. Currently,

[PATCH;debian-installer/doc/README] Correct URL to upx

2001-11-22 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
game at the end also. Upx can compress bzimages. They're still bootable, and up to 100k might - be saved this way. http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/upx.html + be saved this way. http://upx.sourceforge.net/> -- I was Linux when Linux wasn't cool. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: upx : debian-installer

2001-02-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* David Whedon | In April of last year there was a discussion of upx, but it sounded like there | was some question about the way the license is GPL, plus an | exception. I read the license, and iirc, it said GPL, but you may use it on non-GPL programs as well. Which makes sense, if you are

upx : debian-installer

2001-01-30 Thread David Whedon
Continuing the discussion of upx: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0101/msg00065.html I tried it and it brought the current di kernel from 526k to 450k, nice. (I haven't yet tried to boot with it.) In April of last year there was a discussion of upx, but it sounded like there was

Re[2]: upx

2001-01-02 Thread I.M.J. Kamps
Wednesday, January 03, 2001, 5:53:14 AM, you wrote: IMJK> Wednesday, January 03, 2001, 4:23:18 AM, you wrote: JH>> Upx is an executable file compressor. The interesting thing in relation JH>> to the b-f or d-i is that it can compress bzimage linux kernels. The JH>> kernel i

Re: upx

2001-01-02 Thread I.M.J. Kamps
Wednesday, January 03, 2001, 4:23:18 AM, you wrote: JH> Upx is an executable file compressor. The interesting thing in relation JH> to the b-f or d-i is that it can compress bzimage linux kernels. The JH> kernel is still bootable, and a coworker shaved 100k off the size of an JH&

Re: upx

2001-01-02 Thread Tal Danzig
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:23:18PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Upx is an executable file compressor. The interesting thing in relation > to the b-f or d-i is that it can compress bzimage linux kernels. The > kernel is still bootable, and a coworker shaved 100k off the size of an > exis

upx

2001-01-02 Thread Joey Hess
Upx is an executable file compressor. The interesting thing in relation to the b-f or d-i is that it can compress bzimage linux kernels. The kernel is still bootable, and a coworker shaved 100k off the size of an existing bzimage (even though it was already compressed). http://wildsau.idv.uni