On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 05:53:14PM -0500, Chris Ball wrote:
Hi,
> This is Fedora's initramfs, right?
Right.
> Peter's suggestion is to use pilgrim to create rawhide builds,
> hence using the olpc initramfs.
That's an interesting idea. I don't like it long-term, because
no-one's working on pilgrim or our initramfs, but it could help
us get moving.
Two small corrections:
a) the initramfs continues happily under active volunteer development -- it
received two new features and a bugfix contributed by a deployment support
volunteer (dsd) in the last two weeks, along with patch review and volunteer
testing by folks back here in the States.
b) While pilgrim may be a dead-end, the ideas underlying it are not. This week,
I translated pilgrim's ideas into the simplest form yet achieved, namely, a
plain old Makefile:
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/mstone/puritan;a=tree;hb=make
and used it to produce builds from the olpc4+joyride tree and the
rawhide+olpc4+joyride tree (with minor edits).
The former booted happily into Sugar and built on both Debian and Fedora. :)
(The latter, still using the olpc initramfs, dies because upstart 0.5 still
doesn't know how to run as non-pid-1. olpc4's upstart-0.3.9 has a patch which
implements this feature.)
> Peter does not have an XO (grr@contrib program extreme
slowness!)
> but may be able to help on other issues that surface as the result
> of an available public build...
Oh, let's fix that. Ed, SJ, could one of you take care of sending
Peter some XOs ASAP, please?
Good idea.
Michael