Interesting koji problem
by Paul F. Johnson
Hi,
Just submitted mono for building on koji and have seen quite a fun
error.
libtool requires gcc4.3.1
Does this mean that nothing is building on koji for now?
TTFN
Paul
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15 years, 8 months
Re: [Fedora Forum] Micro Fedora
by Patrice Kadionik
> Hello,
>
> A Fedora user nicknamed stevea has posted an topic about making micro
> Fedora. It
> will be nice to take a look because he may be a very important
> contributors
> given his skills in embedded.
>
> "
> The minimalFedora system weighed in at 67MB. 58MB was in /lib/modules.
> I could
> easily pare that down to a few MB, remove unused drivers with a little
> work.
> Another 6.5MB was in /boot and 1.7MB in busybox. Aside from the homemade
> inittab and rcS (init script) it was all from the Fedora distro,".
>
> References:
> -----------
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=190084
>
Hi,
I'm not sure that it's the right way for building an embedded Linux.
With your method, you just have the Fedora kernel with all Fedora
patches and a big /lib/modules with a lot of unused modules for your
embedded system.
One prefers to use the fresh vanilla Linux kernel with busybox. The
Linux kernel is then configured exactly for your target. With that, you
have a Linux kernel (about 1MB) with its root FS (about 1-2 MB) adapted
completly to the target platform.
I'm building embedded Linux systems and I'm using Fedora just on the
host system for crosscompiling, debugging...
Cheers;
Pat.
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15 years, 8 months
[Fedora Forum] Micro Fedora
by Luya Tshimbalanga
Hello,
A Fedora user nicknamed stevea has posted an topic about making micro Fedora. It
will be nice to take a look because he may be a very important contributors
given his skills in embedded.
"
The minimalFedora system weighed in at 67MB. 58MB was in /lib/modules. I could
easily pare that down to a few MB, remove unused drivers with a little work.
Another 6.5MB was in /boot and 1.7MB in busybox. Aside from the homemade
inittab and rcS (init script) it was all from the Fedora distro,".
References:
-----------
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=190084
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P.S: disregard the comparison with BSD topic.
15 years, 8 months
ifup-local $DEVNAME versus ifup-pre-local $CONFIGFILE
by Martin Langhoff
A curio I found working my way through the ifup execution traces is
that while ifup-local is called with the device name (eth0),
ifup-pre-local is called with the config file name (ifcfg-eth0).
Not the end of the world, but as these hooks aren't documented (that I
could find at least) and google has few hits for them,I thought it was
worth a mention.
cheers,
m
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15 years, 8 months
Re: [Fedora Forum] Micro Fedora
by Patrice Kadionik
Patrice Kadionik a écrit :
>> One prefers to use the fresh vanilla Linux kernel with busybox. The
>> Linux kernel is then configured exactly for your target. With that, you
>
> Maybe you do but if you have the extra space (especially if we could
> fix the module packaging a bit) then the ability to use existing
> maintained
> and tested code, and the fact "yum update" just works are hugely
> valuable.
>
>
>
Hi Alan,
Yes, you're right if you have enough memory onboard.
But, for an embedded system, having a very low memory footprint is very
important. So, if you can use just 4MB instead of 8MB, you have saved
money and your embedded system is cheaper.
Cheers;
Pat.
PS: I missed you last year at the LSM in the system session at Amiens. I
hopefully to see you one days...
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15 years, 8 months
Re: Time to resurrect multi-key signatures in RPM?
by David A. Wheeler
Les Mikesell:
>And if you are really paranoid you have to wonder about the compiler and
>any existing libraries too: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html.
I'm actively working on techniques for countering malicious compilers/libraries;
I even had a paper published by ASCAC on the topic:
http://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/
(The example in the paper was run on Fedora.)
Unsurprisingly, it requires determinism (e.g., recompiling the same
program with the same compiler, on & for the same architecture,
produces the same binary).
This kind of determinism is not something that should be
_required_ for Fedora 10, but it'd be a good thing to shoot for.
Determinism is good for testing & debugging, anyway. If the compiler,
running on the SAME architecture, generates different code when you
re-run it, some kinds of compiler bugs are devilishly hard to track down.
--- David A. Wheeler
15 years, 8 months
Re: [PATCH] varnish spec
by Ingvar Hagelund
* Michael Schwendt
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@
%{_libdir}/libvarnishapi.so
%{_libdir}/libvarnishcompat.so
%{_libdir}/libvcl.so
+%dir %{_includedir}/varnish
%{_includedir}/varnish/shmlog.h
%{_includedir}/varnish/shmlog_tags.h
%{_includedir}/varnish/stat_field.h
I may include this, perhaps, though as 2.0-beta1 was released today(!)
I'll probably emphasize on getting that into rawhide.
Ingvar
15 years, 8 months
ext4dev oddity
by Trever L. Adams
I am having some pretty good success on some different machines with
ext4.
However, I am getting this message:
EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_mb_generate_buddy: EXT4-fs: group 717:
23410 blocks in bitmap, 23411 in gd
EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_mb_generate_buddy: EXT4-fs: group 721:
19309 blocks in bitmap, 19333 in gd
What do I need to do to help debug this, if anything, and how do I find
out which files or directories are affected?
Thank you,
Trever Adams
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15 years, 8 months
Rawhide install/update status
by Mike Chambers
Has anyone tried an install and ran updates now that rawhide has sync'd
up again and putting out packages? Curious if some of the
firefox/evolution/etc problems might have been fixed or not.
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15 years, 8 months