Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 11:27:20PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Nov 09, Daniel Schepler wrote: > > > I've asked a couple people in private mail about this, and haven't > > gotten any answer, so I thought I'd ask here for ideas. Where would > > be a good place to upload what I have so far from

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 10:47:43AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On the other hand, widespread dumb-ass assumptions about i386/amd64 may > cause quite a bit of issues: basically any Makefile that talks about "x86" > is somewhat suspicious. This is the main reason one may want to oppose > the inclu

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 11:27:20PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Nov 09, Daniel Schepler wrote: > > > I've asked a couple people in private mail about this, and haven't > > > gotten any answer, so I thought I'd ask here for ideas. Where would > > >

Bug#692894: ITP: plum -- plum is a command line tool used to interact with the U-Boot netconsole of any LaCie product

2012-11-10 Thread Maxime Hadjinlian
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Maxime Hadjinlian * Package name: plum Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Maxime Hadjinlian * URL : http://github.com/maximeh/plum * License : BSD Programming Lang: C++, Python, Shell Scripts Description : plum is a

Re: Something like nocompress DEB_BUILD_OPTION

2012-11-10 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 07:48:22PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > There used to be a single global default level (9) for all compressors, > which got changed in 2010 to be backend specific, but only xz and lzma > were reduced to 6. I don't have any problem with changing gzip (to its > upstream defau

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/10/2012 08:15 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > 3) Memory usage of some common server workload. E.g. email with > amavisd-new+spamassassin (perl is a memory pig in amd64), or a LAMP stack > with some common web application Hi, I cannot tell for the other use cases, but for what's abo

Re: Bug#692894: ITP: plum -- plum is a command line tool used to interact with the U-Boot netconsole of any LaCie product

2012-11-10 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:55:41 +0100 Maxime Hadjinlian wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Maxime Hadjinlian > > * Package name: plum > Version : 0.1 > Upstream Author : Maxime Hadjinlian > * URL : http://github.com/maximeh/plum > * License :

Re: Bug#692894: ITP: plum -- plum is a command line tool used to interact with the U-Boot netconsole of any LaCie product

2012-11-10 Thread Maxime Hadjinlian
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:55:41 +0100 > Maxime Hadjinlian wrote: > >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: Maxime Hadjinlian >> >> * Package name: plum >> Version : 0.1 >> Upstream Author : Maxime Hadjinlian >> * URL

Re: Bug#692894: ITP: plum -- plum is a command line tool used to interact with the U-Boot netconsole of any LaCie product

2012-11-10 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:52:44 +0100 Maxime Hadjinlian wrote: > >> * Package name: plum > > netconsole on many more products. The package name is far from being as > > specific as the package itself. General purpose names are (relatively) > > fine for general purpose programs. > Well, plum is

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Peter Samuelson
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 10:47:43AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > > On the other hand, widespread dumb-ass assumptions about i386/amd64 may > > cause quite a bit of issues: basically any Makefile that talks about "x86" > > is somewhat suspicious. This is the main reason one may want to oppose >

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 11/10/2012 08:15 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > 3) Memory usage of some common server workload. E.g. email with > > amavisd-new+spamassassin (perl is a memory pig in amd64), or a LAMP stack > > with some common web application > Hi, > >

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 10/11/12 16:10, Peter Samuelson wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 10:47:43AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: On the other hand, widespread dumb-ass assumptions about i386/amd64 may cause quite a bit of issues: basically any Makefile that talks about "x86" is somewhat suspicious. This is the main

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 10:47:43AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > On the other hand, widespread dumb-ass assumptions about i386/amd64 may > > > cause quite a bit of issues: basically any Makefile that talks about "x86" > > > is somewhat suspicious.

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 04:22:34PM +, Philip Ashmore wrote: > Apologies in advance that this is off-topic or just a silly question. > > If I want my C source code to build correctly on x32, how do I > choose the correct printf format strings for int32_t, int64_t etc? Use the appropriate macr

Re: Bug#692894: ITP: plum -- plum is a command line tool used to interact with the U-Boot netconsole of any LaCie product

2012-11-10 Thread Maxime Hadjinlian
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:52:44 +0100 > Maxime Hadjinlian wrote: > >> >> * Package name: plum > >> > netconsole on many more products. The package name is far from being as >> > specific as the package itself. General purpose names are (rel

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 02:15:14PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Yes, I know :) Our amavisd-box at work has 16GiB RAM and 16 cores, > we need at least that much to be able to run 64 instances with the > scratch directories on tmpfs... > x32 would be most likely a _MAJOR_ win for that

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Daniel Schepler
(Sorry for broken threading, I'm not currently subscribed to debian-devel.) At some time in the past, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Can someone give us numbers? Using VMs or even the bare metal, it should be > possible to gather some statistics about memory usage for x32 versus amd64 > fo

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 10:47:43AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 11:27:20PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Nov 09, Daniel Schepler wrote: > > > I've asked a couple people in private mail about this, and haven't > > > gotten any answer, so I thought I'd ask here for ideas

Re: Bug#692894: ITP: plum -- plum is a command line tool used to interact with the U-Boot netconsole of any LaCie product

2012-11-10 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Samstag, den 10.11.2012, 15:52 +0100 schrieb Maxime Hadjinlian: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:55:41 +0100 > > Maxime Hadjinlian wrote: > > > >> Package: wnpp > >> Severity: wishlist > >> Owner: Maxime Hadjinlian > >> > >> * Package name

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
Adam Borowski wrote: >On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 11:27:20PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> On Nov 09, Daniel Schepler wrote: >> >> > I've asked a couple people in private mail about this, and haven't >> > gotten any answer, so I thought I'd ask here for ideas. Where would >> > be a good place to upl

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 10 novembre 2012 19:28 CET, Steve McIntyre  : > So, should we do it? Here is an interesting link against it: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2012/06/debunking-x32-myths -- die_if_kernel("Kernel gets FloatingPenguinUnit disabled trap", regs); 2.2.16 /usr/src/linux/arch/sparc/kernel/traps.c

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Andreas Rütten
Am Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:28:14 + schrieb Steve McIntyre : > Adam Borowski wrote: > >On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 11:27:20PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > >> On Nov 09, Daniel Schepler wrote: > >> > >> > I've asked a couple people in private mail about this, and > >> > haven't gotten any answer, so I

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Alan Pope
On 10/11/12 18:28, Steve McIntyre wrote: Hmmm, can't find any direct links to them, though. :-( Maybe somebody else can fill in here? These? http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/uds-r/uds-r-foundations-r-x32-planning-latest.txt https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-r-x32-pl

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 06:02:36PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 10:47:43AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > > That'd make it mostly worthless. If you need to co-install amd64 packages > > on the same system (but not physical machine!), memory gains are gone. > > Right now th

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Wookey
+++ Steve McIntyre [2012-11-10 18:28 +]: > *If* we want to include x32, it's worth describing it and > understanding the potential benefits properly and getting some > benchmarks. There's been some work in Ubuntu on the benchmarking front > (as I saw mentioned in a session at UDS last week[1])

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Adam Borowski > For some strange reason, i386 is the only architecture that's allowed to > have its buildds emulated on a foreign arch. It's not more emulated on a foreign arch than, say, sparc is. [...] > [I propose postponing this part of the flamewar until there's an aptable > source you

Bug#692924: ITP: libhash-diff-perl -- module for creating the difference between two hashes

2012-11-10 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libhash-diff-perl Version : 0.005 Upstream Author : Bjorn-Olav Strand * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Hash-Diff/ * Lice

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 02:15:14PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Yes, I know :) Our amavisd-box at work has 16GiB RAM and 16 cores, > > we need at least that much to be able to run 64 instances with the > > scratch directories on tmpfs...

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 20:14 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 10 Nov 2012, Bastian Blank wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 02:15:14PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > Yes, I know :) Our amavisd-box at work has 16GiB RAM and 16 cores, > > > we need at least that mu

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 08:30:06PM +, Wookey wrote: > +++ Steve McIntyre [2012-11-10 18:28 +]: > > > *If* we want to include x32, it's worth describing it and > > understanding the potential benefits properly and getting some > > benchmarks. There's been some work in Ubuntu on the benchmar

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 20:14 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Nov 2012, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 02:15:14PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > > > wrote: > > > > Yes, I know :) Our amavisd-box at work h

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 08:30:06PM +, Wookey wrote: > > +++ Steve McIntyre [2012-11-10 18:28 +]: > > > *If* we want to include x32, it's worth describing it and > > > understanding the potential benefits properly and getting some > > > benchmarks.

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 22:53 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 11 Nov 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 20:14 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Sat, 10 Nov 2012, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 02:15:14PM -0200, Henrique de M

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 06:28:14PM +, Steve McIntyre a écrit : > > *If* we want to include x32, it's worth describing it and > understanding the potential benefits properly and getting some > benchmarks. Hi all, would it make sense to use the autopkgtest (DEP8) framework to provide benchmark

Bug#692940: ITP: opendmarc -- Milter implementation of DMARC

2012-11-10 Thread Scott Kitterman
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Scott Kitterman * Package name: opendmarc Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : "Murray S. Kucherawy" , The Trusted Domain Project * URL : http://www.trusteddomain.org/opendmarc/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Descr

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-10 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/11/2012 04:20 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > Thomas Goirand says it's 400MB vs 700MB. I really doubt these numbers as > over 75% of all variables in all running programs would need to be pointers > so something must be amiss, but even far more conservative estimates you can > get by looking at e

Re: Bug#692894: ITP: plum -- plum is a command line tool used to interact with the U-Boot netconsole of any LaCie product

2012-11-10 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Maxime Hadjinlian (maxime.hadjinl...@gmail.com): > What about : > Description : lacie u-boot netconsole shell > ? > > Now the dumb question, to change the description, what do I do ? I > wasn't able to find that info in the docs :/ > Should I also add a more detailed description at th