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diff --git a/open_issues/nightly_builds_deb_packages.mdwn b/open_issues/nightly_builds_deb_packages.mdwn index 11fc4c79..da7bdc7d 100644 --- a/open_issues/nightly_builds_deb_packages.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/nightly_builds_deb_packages.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -16,6 +17,13 @@ packages. * Need to have an automation to get from Hurd upstream Git branches to a branch usable in Debian. + IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-12-18: + + <teythoon> http://darnassus.sceen.net/~teythoon/hurd-ci/ has hurd and + mig and gnumach packages built directly from the upstream git + repository + + --- There is infrastructure available to test whole OS installations. @@ -29,3 +37,74 @@ There is infrastructure available to test whole OS installations. --- See also [[nightly_builds]]. + + +# Debian Jenkins Instance + +## IRC, OFTC, #debian-hurd, 2014-02-24 + + <pere> hi. can hurd be installed using d-i? If so, what about scripting + the installation on <URL: + http://jenkins.debian.net/view/g-i-installation/ >? + <gnu_srs> pere: d-i works for Hurd, yes, with full graphical interface I + dunno. Maybe you can ask about scripting in #hurd, more people are + present there? + <pere> gnu_srs: the scripts in questions are for jenkins. quite easy to + write (d-i preseed scripts and qemu boot rules). + +## IRC, OFTC, #debian-hurd, 2014-02-25 + + <pere> getting a automated test in jenkins running could show the status. + what is needed to boot the hurd d-i image with a preseed file using qemu? + <pere> git://git.debian.org/git/users/holger/jenkins.debian.net.git is the + repo with the jenkins build rules. + <pere> youpi: is it possible to start the hurd d-i installer with a preseed + file from the qemu command line? --append need --kernel, which I suspect + do not make sense with hurd? + <pere> can the d-i hurd installer take a preseed file at all? my initial + try failed. :( + <teythoon> i don't know + <teythoon> there has been talk here the other day about using qemus + multiboot capabilities to directly boot the hurd + +[[debugging_gnumach_startup_qemu_gdb]], *Multiboot* + + <teythoon> i always wanted to try that out + <pere> the jenkins rules to test the install uses --kernel, --initrd and + --append in qemu to specify the preseed file. without a similar method + to boot hurd, it will be hard to automate the test. rewriting the iso + might be an option, but not a very nice one. + <teythoon> i believe that it is possible to use those options to boot a + hurd + <teythoon> i'll report back to you + <pere> I tried adding an url= option to grub when booting the installer, + but it seem to be ignored. + <pere> I suspect it did not make it to /proc/cmdline, but am not sure. + <teythoon> um + <teythoon> it should + <pere> could be. I am unable to get a shell in the installer, so I do not + know. + <teythoon> root@pluto ~ # cat /proc/cmdline + <teythoon> root=device:hd0s1 + <teythoon> oh ? select expert install, then spawn a shell or something + <pere> perhaps the preseed udeb is missing, or the network support was + enabled after preseed looked for the file? + <teythoon> uh, i don't know about that stuff, youpi creates the d-i images + <pere> ok. seem to me that the d-i images do not support preseeding at the + moment. + <teythoon> pere: when i try to use qemus multiboot support to boot the + hurd, qemu crashes :/ + <teythoon> youpi: ^ did you succeed? if so, can you share how? + <pere> teythoon: nope, I concluded it didn't work, and left it to other to + fix. :) + <youpi> pere, teythoon: IIRC preseeding can be put on the gnumach kernel + command line + <youpi> but I'm wondering why you can't simply modify the disk image into + doing what you want + <youpi> or you mean reinstalling the image each time? + <pere> youpi: the point is testing the installer, and that can only be done + by using the installer. :) + <youpi> ok + <pere> I would like to see something like <URL: + http://jenkins.debian.net/view/g-i-installation/job/g-i-installation_debian_sid_daily_lxde/lastBuild/ + > for hurd. |