Re: Some 'required' packages broken for powerpcspe port

2011-07-06 Thread David Kuehling
> "Sebastian" == Sebastian Andrzej Siewior writes: >>> I could upload my chroot by end of the week. Is this helpful? >> >> I'm already tinkering with multistrapping a chroot from >> snapshot.debian.org (currently trying May 9 2011). If I'm lucky this >> will soon work. So now I have a doub

Re: Some 'required' packages broken for powerpcspe port

2011-07-06 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
David Kuehling wrote: BTW are there any special test-cases you use for testing your changes? So far I can only imagine to put this in a chroot and see whether it "works". libc has a testsuite of its own. The only things that were failing were the same failures as for powerpc and some floatingpo

Re: Some 'required' packages broken for powerpcspe port

2011-07-06 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
David Kuehling wrote: One thing that's worth mentioning, if the GNU ld patches that Sebastian proposed got fully merged then any patches solely fixing "lwsync" issues are no longer really relevant. Specifically, GNU ld now autoconverts "lwsync" into the appropriate "msync" instruction when assem

Re: Some 'required' packages broken for powerpcspe port

2011-07-06 Thread David Kuehling
> "Sebastian" == Sebastian Andrzej Siewior writes: > David Kuehling wrote: >>> One thing that's worth mentioning, if the GNU ld patches that >>> Sebastian proposed got fully merged then any patches solely fixing >>> "lwsync" issues are no longer really relevant. Specifically, GNU ld >>> now

Re: Some 'required' packages broken for powerpcspe port

2011-07-06 Thread David Kuehling
> "Kyle" == Kyle Moffett writes: >> Looks like this part is rather trivial. You still have 2 short >> patches, both of which have not gone to eglibc upstream nor into >> debian sid (as far as I can see, eglibc.org is currently down). >> >> I'll file bug reports and send you the fixed source

Re: Some 'required' packages broken for powerpcspe port

2011-07-05 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Jul 04, 2011, at 05:31, David Kuehling wrote: > "Kyle" == Kyle Moffett writes: >> I would try to forward-port the eglibc patches from the "unreleased" >> repo to the latest sid version and file new bugs (or update existing >> ones and pester the maintainers). > > Looks like this part is rather

Re: Some 'required' packages broken for powerpcspe port

2011-07-04 Thread David Kuehling
> "Kyle" == Kyle Moffett writes: > On Jul 01, 2011, at 16:17, David Kuehling wrote: >> "Kyle" == Kyle Moffett writes: 1. Nowadays some required packages depend on the metapackage 'multiarch-support' (e.g. 'libselinux1'). However 'multiarch-support' is only provided by newer e

Re: Some 'required' packages broken for powerpcspe port

2011-07-01 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Jul 01, 2011, at 16:17, David Kuehling wrote: > "Kyle" == Kyle Moffett writes: >>> 1. Nowadays some required packages depend on the metapackage >>> 'multiarch-support' (e.g. 'libselinux1'). However >>> 'multiarch-support' is only provided by newer eglibc packages, not by >>> the eglibc package

Re: Some 'required' packages broken for powerpcspe port

2011-07-01 Thread David Kuehling
> "Kyle" == Kyle Moffett writes: [..] >> 1. Nowadays some required packages depend on the metapackage >> 'multiarch-support' (e.g. 'libselinux1'). However >> 'multiarch-support' is only provided by newer eglibc packages, not by >> the eglibc package currently found in the powerpcspe archive

Re: Some 'required' packages broken for powerpcspe port

2011-07-01 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Kyle Moffett wrote: just found out that with the current state of the powerpcspe port [1] I cannot multistrap even a rudimentary debian system. A few months ago multistrap worked without problems. Yeah, unfortunately my time to deal with the whole thing lately has been extremely limited, and w

Re: Some 'required' packages broken for powerpcspe port

2011-07-01 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Jul 01, 2011, at 09:04, David Kuehling wrote: > Hi, Hi! > just found out that with the current state of the powerpcspe port [1] I > cannot multistrap even a rudimentary debian system. A few months ago > multistrap worked without problems. Yeah, unfortunately my time to deal with the whole th