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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:45:02 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Larry Scheer" <larry.scheer@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: review rootfs changes
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On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:38:59 -0700 "Larry Scheer"
<larry.scheer@onstor.com> wrote:

> 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.

A semi-infinite number of tweaks yet to go.  Very much a WiP.

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

What I did was try and do a debootstrap with the file:/// URI, and it
squaked about no 'Release' file.  That's when I knew I didn't want to
do it that way.

So what I have it doing now is tar up all the .debs in
linux/Pkgs/binary/Deb into a tarball, and then use the --with-tarball
option to debootstrap.  It took that, so I assume it worked ~:^)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Sharp 
> 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
> 
