From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22186 invoked by uid 1002); 26 Aug 2003 02:19:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 29030 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2003 02:19:09 -0000 Message-ID: <3F4AC33F.5050806@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 04:17:35 +0200 From: Luca Barbato User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030818 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stuart Herbert , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <200308252205.40434.stuart@gentoo.org> <200308252111.31862.luke-jr@gentoo.org> <200308252215.55631.stuart@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200308252215.55631.stuart@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.4.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New packages: cloop, skalibs, minutils added X-Archives-Salt: 16ebb800-70b3-4a99-b753-d467820652a0 X-Archives-Hash: 76a6c064f0f6fb23e2b11c754faf0166 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Stuart Herbert wrote: | On Monday 25 August 2003 10:11 pm, Luke-Jr wrote: | |>Last I heard, the Gentoo LiveCDs used an enhanced/sped up version of cloop |>called gcloop? Have they been merged or was there some problem with gcloop |>that we went back to cloop? gcloop ucl is used in the ppc cd because plain cloop seems to have not reproducible issues there cloop or gcloop zlib is used in x86 cd for the pretty same reason unreproducible issues with gcloop ucl at module loading time on certain system | | | I'm just going on the livecd-ng script in livewire's public_html dir. It'd be | great if the cd build scripts - and all the software required - was already | in CVS, then we wouldn't have to guess like this :) | Since gcloop ucl/lzo/zlib and cloop are drop-ins replacements from the livecd generator point of view, every time the one working best for the purpose is used. | |>Also, if 1.0 can't read 1.0-created cloops, what can? | | | Oops - that was a typo. 0.68 can't read 1.0-created cloops, because 1.0 uses | 64-bit file pointers. | Currently I'm trying to make a quite generic *cloop supporting module for 2.6 kernel if someone is willing to help me fixing the bugs that are present at the current state or are willing to help me porting the compressors in the kernel in a clean way (currently I have the ucl compressor more or less working and the generic module almost done but with issues) http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero/gcloop | Thanks, | Stu lu - -- Luca Barbato Developer Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/SsM+rQ+uh6aZS+MRAp6MAKCOTwdydQ+wx/kHVKHyIHtETcDjsQCfWzEi 5ahHOO02jTSDAOwdTxc/Q3A= =a40u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list