Re: debootstrap and cdebootstrap vs systemd

2014-11-07 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 12:40:29PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: > > debootstrap --include and --exclude should work. > > Yes of course. If not there could be a --variant=sysvinit, but clearly > it should be possible to debootstrap without systemd. I'd say every --variant except the default should

Re: debootstrap and cdebootstrap vs systemd

2014-11-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 08:30:32PM +1100, csir...@yahoo.com.au wrote: > Apologies in advance. You really hit a nerve here. > > Kernel 3.7 was released December 2012. Debian project created a dependency on > this for the default init system roughly 15 months later. Which is fine, and > perfectly

Re: debootstrap and cdebootstrap vs systemd

2014-11-07 Thread Jean-Christian de Rivaz
Le 07. 11. 14 13:32, csir...@yahoo.com.au a écrit : Finally can I just re-iterate: these are not "old" or obscure SoCs; TI and freescale each have massive sales in CPU lines that don't have >3.0 kernels. The world's biggest Qseven COM vendor doesn't have an ARM board that supports >3.0 kernels.

Re: debootstrap and cdebootstrap vs systemd

2014-11-07 Thread csirac2
-Original Message- From: Riku Voipio To: csir...@yahoo.com.au Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-embed...@lists.debian.org Sent: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 22:36 Subject: Re: debootstrap and cdebootstrap vs systemd > If you choose an old Soc vendor kernel, you effectively choose to use

Re: debootstrap and cdebootstrap vs systemd

2014-11-07 Thread Riku Voipio
On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 08:30:32PM +1100, csir...@yahoo.com.au wrote: > "Don't accept old kernels" is almost equivalent to telling many > unrelated businesses in a particular ecosystem to burn their > investments and start again from scratch, just because the SoC and/or > board vendors have a broke

Re: debootstrap and cdebootstrap vs systemd

2014-11-07 Thread Riku Voipio
On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 10:00:38AM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Fri, 7 Nov 2014, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > You can chroot to the system from the host machine, and upgrade to sysvinit. > > If your host can't run arm code, install qemu-user-static and copy > > /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static to the

Re: debootstrap and cdebootstrap vs systemd

2014-11-07 Thread Paul Harvey
On 07/11/14 21:12, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Yes, your ecosystem is broken. That's your prerogative, but please do > not pretend that Debian has to support it. > Where did you hear me say Debian has to support it? I'm reacting to the whimsical suggestion that running a new kernel is just a matter of

Re: debootstrap and cdebootstrap vs systemd

2014-11-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 07, csir...@yahoo.com.au wrote: > "Don't accept old kernels" is almost equivalent to telling many > unrelated businesses in a particular ecosystem to burn their > investments and start again from scratch, just because the SoC and/or > board vendors have a broken business model. And that'

Re: debootstrap and cdebootstrap vs systemd

2014-11-07 Thread Paul Harvey
For what it's worth, some of the boards I work with aren't emulated by QEMU either. However, for me that did not turn out to be a problem for chrooting into my alien rootfs just to run apt/dpkg & friends. Qemu only has to emulate a very minimal/"thin" CPU environment when chrooting with binfmts,

Re: debootstrap and cdebootstrap vs systemd

2014-11-07 Thread csirac2
-Original Message- From: Cyril Brulebois To: Simon Richter Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-embed...@lists.debian.org, debootst...@packages.debian.org, cdebootst...@packages.debian.org Sent: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 10:45 Subject: Re: debootstrap and cdebootstrap vs systemd >

Re: debootstrap and cdebootstrap vs systemd

2014-11-07 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 7 Nov 2014, Adam Borowski wrote: > You can chroot to the system from the host machine, and upgrade to sysvinit. > If your host can't run arm code, install qemu-user-static and copy > /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static to the target system. This is no fix. There are systems Qemu does not emulate. de

Re: debootstrap and cdebootstrap vs systemd

2014-11-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 06 Nov 2014, Simon Richter wrote: > I've run into a bit of a problem building a root filesystem for an ARM > system where the kernel shipped by the vendor is 2.6 based. As systemd > does not work there, I tried installing a sysvinit based system using > --include and --exclude to (c)deboots

Re: debootstrap and cdebootstrap vs systemd

2014-11-06 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 11:14:10PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > I've run into a bit of a problem building a root filesystem for an ARM > system where the kernel shipped by the vendor is 2.6 based. As systemd > does not work there, I tried installing a sysvinit based system using > --include and --

Re: debootstrap and cdebootstrap vs systemd

2014-11-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Simon Richter (2014-11-06): > I've run into a bit of a problem building a root filesystem for an ARM > system where the kernel shipped by the vendor is 2.6 based. As systemd > does not work there, I tried installing a sysvinit based system using > --include and --exclude to (c)debootstrap. > > In

Re: debootstrap and cdebootstrap vs systemd

2014-11-06 Thread Paul Harvey
For the same reasons, for what it's worth I have a multistrap .conf which achieves sysvinit booting rootfs (but perhaps I'm doing some post-configure apt-get install commands in the build script, I'll have to check). If you're interested in the multistrap config let me know. My workflow with this