Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-04-13 Thread Roland Stigge
Daniel Baumann wrote: > How long until you (or your sponsor) have uploaded it? It's already uploaded, but in the NEW queue (new binary package names). See e.g. http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?package=squashfs bye, Roland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-04-12 Thread Daniel Baumann
How long until you (or your sponsor) have uploaded it? -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-13 Thread Daniel Baumann
Any news so far? -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-08 Thread Arnaud Fontaine
Hello, I haven't answer to this bug report because i have discussed about this one with Daniel on IRC, following this discussion, a mail to the upstream author has been sent. I will take a look at module packaging (including m-a) in the next days ;). Regards, Arnaud Fontaine pgpWwyk

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-08 Thread Daniel Baumann
Frédéric BOITEUX wrote: > I've tried to > workaround using some 'ext2' definitions, checked it works, but if you can > review it, it would be nice. I'll look into it too. > Daniel, Arnaud, if we want to support 2.4, we would give both 2.4 and 2.6 > sources, perhaps in 2 separate packages ? No,

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-08 Thread Frédéric BOITEUX
Hello Daniel, Arnaud, Phillip, Following Daniel's suggest on Debian bug #34 to be able to build squashfs without patching kernel, I've tried to do the same thing he's already done for 2.6.15 with the latest 2.4 kernel patch. It's a bit trickier as some definitions don't exist in vani

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-07 Thread Daniel Baumann
Phillip Lougher wrote: > Adding a directory with the Squashfs files in plain format (rather > than as patches) to the release tarball is possible. I've had a look > at [1] and this doesn't look too much extra work. There are a couple > of issues: Thanks for your quick answer. When can you releas

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-07 Thread Phillip Lougher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Your release-tarball contains "only" the patches against specific >kernel-versions, but we need the files in 'plain format'. In the first >attempt[1] to build the debian package for that, I had to rebuild your >release-tarball. We want to avoid that if possible, so.. wha

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
Roland Stigge wrote: > Provide a kind of kernel source stub, apply the upstream patch and our > new package specific patches/changes. Yes, ugly. Thanks for already > contacting upstream. :-) That is uglier than repackaging the orig.tar.gz. > We need to accept native packages that were not specifi

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, Daniel Baumann wrote: >>What you are doing is taking upstream's code and adjusting it to >>out-of-tree compilation. Since you are shipping patches (dpatch ...) >>anyway, it still seems to be possible to prevent repackaging (which >>should be tried as far as possible). > > No. Atm you have to

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
Hi, Debian Live[0] is the initiative to create the official live system for Debian. It is based on squashfs (and unionfs). As we will (and have to) use the normal linux-images from the Debian archive, we need to build the squashfs-module out-of-tree. Your release-tarball contains "only" the patch

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
Roland Stigge wrote: >>Upstream puts just patches for in-tree compiliation in his tarball, we >>need them separately, for out-of-tree compiliation. > > What you are doing is taking upstream's code and adjusting it to > out-of-tree compilation. Since you are shipping patches (dpatch ...) > anyway,

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi Daniel, Daniel Baumann wrote: >>>one can't just apply a patch between the current one and my one, to be >>>able to build it out-of-tree, you have to repackage it (like I did). >> >>Why would this be necessary? I would prefer to keep the orig.tar.gz >>identical to upstream (e.g. in case of new u

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Frédéric BOITEUX
Le lun 06 mar 2006 14:51:13 CET, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > So you are seriously suggesting to hack a crapped 2.4 support in it > although that in about 4-5 month, the base system is freezed for etch? > Hm, I don't think this is worthy when we have m-a to semi-autobuild the > m

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
Frédéric BOITEUX wrote: >> * the modules which are autobuilt are for 2.6 only, etch will likely >>not ship any 2.4 kernel, so 2.4 autobuilt support would be useless anyway. > > mmm. But Etch isn't to be released soon ;-) So you are seriously suggesting to hack a crapped 2.4 support in it althoug

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Frédéric BOITEUX
Le lun 06 mar 2006 14:15:54 CET, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > There is no kernel-patch because we want to build it out-of-tree, not > in-tree. Ok, it's a nice goal anyway. > > Anyway, everybody doesn't use latest kernel version (nor 2.6 kernel), if > > you > > want to replace

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
Roland Stigge wrote: >>one can't just apply a patch between the current one and my one, to be >>able to build it out-of-tree, you have to repackage it (like I did). > > Why would this be necessary? I would prefer to keep the orig.tar.gz > identical to upstream (e.g. in case of new upstream release

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
Frédéric BOITEUX wrote: > I'm not the official maintener but have worked sometimes on this package and > using it. I've looked a bit on your package, and seems not to give any > kernel patch : are they no longer useful for 2.6.15 kernels ? There is no kernel-patch because we want to build it out

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
Roland Stigge wrote: > thanks for your work and sorry for the delay. np. > No, please don't do neither. Arnaud is already investigating this issue. > Please coordinate with him. Maybe your patch can just be applied to the > current version (Arnaud, please check the diffs carefully because of > ot

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, Daniel Baumann wrote: >>No, please don't do neither. Arnaud is already investigating this issue. >>Please coordinate with him. Maybe your patch can just be applied to the >>current version (Arnaud, please check the diffs carefully because of >>other changes like docs etc.). > > one can't just

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Frédéric BOITEUX
Hello, Le lun 06 mar 2006 13:19:52 CET, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Package: squashfs > Severity: important > > Hi, > > [ Disclaimer: this mail should not be taken as an offense, I just want > to get things done quickly. ] > > as I wrote you a few days ago, we want t

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi Daniel, thanks for your work and sorry for the delay. Daniel Baumann wrote: > as I wrote you a few days ago, we want the module packages for squashfs > autobuilt (needed for Debian Live[0]). As I didn't got any answer so > far, I made the package[1] on my own. I tested it successfully on amd64

Bug#355554: squashfs: Building modules to out-of-tree

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
Package: squashfs Severity: important Hi, [ Disclaimer: this mail should not be taken as an offense, I just want to get things done quickly. ] as I wrote you a few days ago, we want the module packages for squashfs autobuilt (needed for Debian Live[0]). As I didn't got any answer so far, I made