Re: Adding chroot support to the dpkg functional testsuite (was Bug#580984...)

2010-05-17 Thread Wookey
hich could let it work in the future. > 'dpkg --unpack and dpkg --root foo --install' insist on trying to run > the prerm/preinst which is just wrong. Agreed (as things currently stand, and this will remain the case until we have a robust method to run the right things in the right

Re: dpkg armhf patch acceptance status?

2011-02-17 Thread Wookey
ring this up on the > debian-embedded list? Are there other stakeholders who would have input > regarding the array of available uclibc ABIs and how to specify these? Debian-embedded contains people who know about uclibc stuff. (ron, Bernard Link, virtuoso, Simon richter) Comments

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

2011-02-20 Thread Wookey
on, because I > don't really see the point in the multiarch tuples, when the GNU triplets > seems to do the job just fine (modulo the armhf and i386 issues, which we > should just fix). This pretty-much boils down the issue. dpkg needs to use a unique and reliable internal represent

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

2011-02-20 Thread Wookey
ion to this problem than inventing a new set; and in general Debian likes to go for the technically-best solutions even if it takes longer. (Multiarch in general is an example of this). However, equally, it's taken a really long time to get this far, and if we made a reasona

Re: [PATCH] Dpkg/Shlibs.pm: multiarch search paths

2011-03-23 Thread Wookey
ed at 3.7Mb (what _were_ you thinking hector? :-) I've put them here: http://wookware.org/files/build-reverse-cross.log.txt http://wookware.org/files/build-reverse-cross-no-biarch.log.txt Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To

help needed on field ordering

2012-06-28 Thread Wookey
ap3.patch ( A better patch to reduce the ridiculous list of static field names will be along soon, but that's not finished - just close your eyes and ignore that bit) Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: help needed on field ordering

2012-06-28 Thread Wookey
writing up my analysis of the options. I expect to have some fruitful discussion on this subject at debconf so we can do further work with something everyone is happy with. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Bug#180128: state of integration of dpkg-cross into dpkg

2012-07-22 Thread Wookey
like should live, but I don't currently see good arguments to put any more of it into dpkg. If we are agreed on that then this bug is indeed closed. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ..

dpkg-buildflags and cross-building

2012-11-21 Thread Wookey
likely to be the case the cross-compiler needs so different flags to the more capable native toolchain. Any ideas? Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: cross builds don't just require alternate b-d's, but additional ones too

2012-12-10 Thread Wookey
work quite well and not get in other people's way. I would like to have a more general and convincing long-term plan. I'll carry on trying to work that up. It is a good subject for a 'cross-build sprint'. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard

Re: Bug#693220: Add crossbuild-essential support

2013-01-08 Thread Wookey
+++ Colin Watson [2013-01-08 15:23 +]: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:08:26PM +0000, Wookey wrote: > > Following on from discussion in this thread > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-embedded/2012/06/msg00030.html > > > > The cross-build-essential package has b

Re: Add multiarch library paths to DEFAULT_LIBRARY_PATH in Dpkg::Shlibs?

2013-04-16 Thread Wookey
it doesn't already, because it'll need to soon. I am of course happy to hear of reasons why that will break things and we should not do it yet. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-d

Re: Add multiarch library paths to DEFAULT_LIBRARY_PATH in Dpkg::Shlibs?

2013-04-16 Thread Wookey
and other outstanding issues such as cross gobject-introspection. We've experimented on most of this in Ubuntu with armhf and arm64 so (a select few of us) have a reasonable idea of how it should work, but that knowledge now needs formalising and documenting, and outstanding questions

apt cross-build-dep handling for arch:all

2013-07-01 Thread Wookey
that might make one conservative about this is that we don't yet have a solution to the 'perl-module' problem of transitive arch-dependencies (XS-module -> arch:all module -> XS module), but I can't actually see why the above change would impede solutions to the latter.

Re: build profile syntax ideas

2013-08-15 Thread Wookey
So I think I am suggesting that the entry "We propose that literals of different namespaces can be mixed within a disjunction. Therefore, the following would be legal: Build-Depends foo [arch.i386 !profile.cross]" Is changed to say that you can't do that, and have to do [i386] [!

Re: build profile syntax ideas

2013-08-16 Thread Wookey
ample. We're absolutely fine with the <> syntax, which is already implemented (and to be honest I prefer the look of it in practice). Are you proposing pkg as opposed to pkg ? We can adjust the patches for that if so. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboa

Re: build profile syntax ideas

2013-08-27 Thread Wookey
+++ Guillem Jover [2013-08-16 14:15 +0200]: > Hi! > > On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 02:59:45 +0100, Wookey wrote: > > In the interests of making some progress, I suggest that we simply say > > that arches and profiles can't be mixed in a [], as otherwise we'd > > ha

Re: build profile syntax ideas

2013-10-23 Thread Wookey
+++ Guillem Jover [2013-10-21 07:31 +0200]: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 12:31:17 +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote: > > To get this issue moving, I have attached a patch which implements the <> > > version of the proposal. The patch is based upon one by wookey and pe

Re: runit not buildable, only build-dependency is arch qualified

2014-08-04 Thread Wookey
as one but I added autotools-dev to get its autofoo up to date. Clearly things that can't cope with this state are buggy. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debi

Re: Bug#766375: lintian: false positive with arch-qualified build-depends

2014-12-03 Thread Wookey
+++ Niels Thykier [2014-11-04 07:10 +0100]: > On 2014-11-04 03:58, Wookey wrote: > > +++ Niels Thykier [2014-10-22 20:25 +0200]: > >> [...] > >> In particular, it is not clear to me whether (e.g.) "pkg:$arch" > >> implies "pkg:any" or/a

Re: arch-specific dependencies and M-A: foreign

2015-04-18 Thread Wookey
ecture. If there really is a meaningful difference between > architectures a reverse-dependency could observe, perhaps bar should be > M-A: allowed instead… That seems reasonable to me. Would some kind of multiarch session at debconf be useful to have higher-bandwidth discussion on t

Re: arch-specific dependencies and M-A: foreign

2015-04-18 Thread Wookey
+++ David Kalnischkies [2015-04-17 11:27 +0200]: > I never even considered that another way of interpreting it might exist > until my nose got rubbed in it yesterday…. Sorry - meant to ask: What was the case/bug/conversation that brought this up? Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro,

Re: [Multiarch-devel] dpkg, apt and dose3 do not agree in many synthetic dependency situations involving multiarch

2015-04-20 Thread Wookey
session at debconf for such discussion on the off-chance that definitive conclusions have not been reached beforehand (or we don't actually agree). I'm hoping that all of you, Guillem and David might be in attendance? (as well as others that have taken aqn interest in multiarch). Wookey -- Prin

Re: Heads up: Upcoming dpkg-buildpackage -j precedence change

2015-05-10 Thread Wookey
. Anyway, what's the bug? Are packages that won't build with "dpkg-buildpackage -j4" buggy, or is it a bug that man pages suggest using "dpkg-buildpackage -j4" rather than "DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=par

Re: Heads up: Upcoming dpkg-buildpackage -j precedence change

2015-06-02 Thread Wookey
t; > > The full documentation for make is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If > > the info and make programs are properly installed at your site, the > > command > > > > info make > > > > should give you access to the complete manual.

Re: Info

2016-07-25 Thread Wookey
vn/gcccvs/branches/sid/gcc-defaults > E: Unable to find a source package for version The 'gcc' binary package is built from the gcc-defaults source package. This is a metapackage. The compiler itself (lots of binary packages) is built from the gcc-4.9 source package. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#994388: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems

2022-04-08 Thread Wookey
done by engaging further. Yes it will be hard work, but if it's not done we are just stuck. Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

PAC and BTI support on arm64

2022-05-29 Thread Wookey
. A simple example whch dies is nmap (running i686-w64-mingw32-gcc ). Given that dpkg-buildflags does this right (with my patch): DEB_HOST_ARCH=amd64 dpkg-buildflags --get CFLAGS -g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/home/wookey/packages/dpkg-1.21.8=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security D

Re: PAC and BTI support on arm64

2022-06-08 Thread Wookey
On 2022-06-04 06:25 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Sun, 2022-05-29 at 14:19:05 +0100, Wookey wrote: > > Discussion: > > > The -mbranch-protection=standard option could be set either by dpkg or > > by gcc. I'm not quite sure how we decide which is most appropriate? &

Re: Status of dpkg-shlibdeps tracking ARM object linkage ABI mismatches

2023-05-03 Thread Wookey
On 2023-05-03 21:50 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > If we're still seeing > issues in packages today, then maybe we might find some help from > Wookey or Emmanuel (who should both be reading this list!). I am, and have noticed this issue and put it on our list of things to look at.

Re: Removing dpkg arch definition for arm64ilp32?

2023-11-11 Thread Wookey
uld be applied to tidying up stuff like this which is simply no longer in use. If/when 'arm' is removed 'armeb' should certainly go with it. Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Really enable -fstack-clash-protection on armhf/armel?

2023-11-24 Thread Wookey
ed rebuild to see how much of a problem we really have, and then decide if we should revert it too until some stuff if fixed. We should have a better idea of whether to go back or forward farily soon. I look forward to some more details on what actually broke (other than valgrind) so

Re: RFC: Reworking build flags — Multiple toolchains support

2023-12-01 Thread Wookey
o-one has shown much interest in fixing it over the last decade or so. Providing the symlinks at least shouldn't be very hard? Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [MBF]: Proposing `Rules-Requires-Root: no` being the new default

2024-11-29 Thread Wookey
chive had > migrated away from `fakeroot`). > > 2) A quick fix to `debhelper` to remove the reliance on > `fakeroot` when assembling `-dbgsym` packages. A detail, I know, but we take detail-correction seriously round here. :-) Wookey -- Principal hats: Debian, Wookwar