[gentoo-dev] phew!

[gentoo-dev] phew!

[drobbins]

Hi All,

I just completed an IBM tutorial on Linux 2.4 stateful firewall design.
Phew!  If anyone needs some tips in this area, email me and I can point
you in the right direction.

Now, back to Gentoo Linux for a tiny bit.  I've been thinking about 1.0_rc4.
What I'd like to do is focus on two things.  The first thing is the install
process, and testing out Achim's new devfs bootdisk.  The second thing is to
test all aspects of sys-apps, sys-libs, sys-devel, and a few important
applications, like openssh, etc.  If we can forget about things like KDE for a
bit, I'd like to focus on making sure that all the fine details of the base
distribution are in order and working perfectly (things like initscripts,
devfs, portage, supervise scripts, fixing all installation "quirks", etc.).  I
think that this is needed; let me know what you think.  I want to do a lot
of test Gentoo Linux setups from scratch to try to eliminate any quirks. 
Tell me what you think and Achim, please suggest a reasonable timeframe.
Also, let me know of any goals that you'd like to define for 1.0_rc4.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

Re: [gentoo-dev] phew!

[Jerry A!]

On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 11:16:03PM -0700, drobbins@gentoo.org wrote:
: Hi All,
: 
: I just completed an IBM tutorial on Linux 2.4 stateful firewall design.
: Phew!  If anyone needs some tips in this area, email me and I can point
: you in the right direction.

Hey, if you wanna send me a bunch of tips, I'd appreciate it.

: Also, let me know of any goals that you'd like to define for 1.0_rc4.

Can we please have pcmcia support in the default kernel?  It's a real
pain having to install off the CD and then build a new kernel, put it on
floppy and then move to that to the machine in question.  It'll be a
bigger pain if that laptop ends up being my only working machine. 8(

        --Jerry

name:  Jerry Alexandratos         ||  Open-Source software isn't a
phone: 703.599.6023               ||  matter of life or death...
email: jerry@akopia.com           ||  ...It's much more important
                                  ||  than that!

Re: [gentoo-dev] phew!

[drobbins]

On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 07:57:48AM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:

> Hmm, there is no devfs bootdisk here :-) I think we should not switch to
> devfs in rc4. I'm not planning to recheck all packages, and I think it is a
> good idea to make the required changes to a few packages that do not support
> devfs during a complete recheck which I whant to do before final 1.0 or rc5.

OK, that's fine.

> There is one problem with supvervise I detected yesterday.  I ran a
> package-build of all current-packages.new over night and forgott to append a
> ebuild clear after package build, so my disk ran out of space. This causes
> supervise/multlog to output a warning like "can not append to
> /var/log/syslog.d/current" in an endless loop.  If this happens with syslog
> the system keeps quiet.  I want to test md/lvm together with reiserfs/nfs.
> And I want to test the new kernel on the primekom machine that did freeze
> during kernel-boot.

I think that the solution to this is for me to make Portage clean up after
itself.

> How about a working recursive pkgmerge?

Yes, I forgot about this.  It's 93% done :)  I had to stop work on it because
the next day, I started building the new server and my motherboard died.

> Another question, what kernel do you use at the moment test12, prerelease or
> final ac1/2/3.?

I'm using test12.

> I made a new package for 2.4.0ac3 called 2.4.0.3. This includes all neccesary
> fixes for reiserfs as announced in the reiserfs-mailinglist.  It includes a
> modified reiserfs/nfs patch.  I run it here since a few hours without
> problems, but did not test more extensive yet. I had a few strange problems
> with prerelease and 2.4.0ac1/2 kernels which did not occur with ac3.

OK; I have a feeling that we will see rapid kernel development from 2.4.0 to about
2.4.3 as people find new bugs since the kernel is now being used by a wider audience.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.