On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:13:15AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Domenico Andreoli <cavok@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I would set NPTL transition as a goal for queeze. > > > > Are we available to agree on a shared path to push new life to this port? > > I mean, this issue will bite more and more frequently, it must be fixed. > > I agree. I'm available and willing. I'm just not a DD nor am I > familiar with debians sbuild or buildds. > > > I am available to follow the required steps but obviously the more eyes > > the better. This is the first time I work on a big transition like this. > > I'm available at OFTC on #debian-glibc. I act as a debian-hppa porter > and help Aurelian when glibc hppa issues arise. > > > I think the first packages have to be cross-built, until a minimal > > build system is ready to run on the new libc6.1 (chroot?). Then start > > an archive rebuild. It looks easy, where is the trap? :) > > I'm not familiar with the debian build infrastructure, but I am *very* > familiar with libc since I'm the upstream ports maintainer for hppa. > > I don't think there is any trap. I've already done the initial bootstrapping and John Wright and I have a buildd actively rebuilding bits against sid. We're rsyncing the results out to here: http://parisc-linux.org/~dannf/hppa-nptl-mirror/unstable/ Suffice to say, the rebuild is going fairly smoothly. But, I wonder how we're going to transition systems over to an NPTL userspace. Does anyone have a plan for that? -- dann frazier -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
