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Subject: RE: review rootfs changes
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:38:59 -0800
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From: "Larry Scheer" <larry.scheer@onstor.com>
To: "Andy Sharp" <andy.sharp@onstor.com>

Okay, let's get this version checked in. The change to the kernel
install, making links, might mess up my lab systems on account of how
their rootfs and tftpboot are set up. But I may be able to work with it
as it is. This still appears to be a work in progress so I am thinking
more tweaks will be done as we go along.

You will need to tell me how this tar ball thing works with debootstrap.
I am unfamiliar with it and how it is used.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Sharp=20
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 10:27 AM
To: Larry Scheer
Subject: review rootfs changes

Hi Larry,

I've been working on the rootfs stuff.  Here are some changes for you
to look over.  There are several things that we need to shore up on
this.  One of them is that we aren't getting packages from
security.debian.org when we run debootstrap.  I'm trying to fix that by
having an apt-proxy which debootstrap looks to for the packages instead
of going straight to a mirror.  That way the proxy can appear to be one
apt-mirror, but really be looking at security.debian.org as well as a
regular mirror.  And possibly be looking to our own repository before
either of those.  Haven't quite worked out all the details yet, but I'm
getting there.

I've also got one of the sibyte 1250 development systems up and running
on the network, so you can use it to do packaging work, rootfilesystem
building, whatever.  The idea is that we can have a mini-farm of these
available for building if we end up with a scheme that uses them in
general.  Again, a couple of the details are a bit fuzzy still, but I'm
trying to come up with something a little more palatable than what we
have now in terms of the 20 minutes of waiting when booting a new
rootfs.

Change 25172 by andys@ripper on 2007/08/27 10:16:18 *pending*

        More mods to rootfs creation scheme.

Affected files ...

... //depot/dev/linux/pkg-tools/mk-mipsel-deb-rootfs#2 edit
... //depot/dev/linux/rootfs/Makefile#1 edit

