Re: [Astlinux-devel] Astlinux base system

[Michael K. <li...@mk...>]

> Am 10.04.2020 um 20:56 schrieb David Kerr <da...@ke...>:
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> Thanks Michael.  I gave it a try and still have the same problem.  I had problems building from that new source... it is missing "configure" and broke then.  Rather than debug all that I just copied the new .c (and accompanying new .h) files into my existing build tree.   So I got it to build fine, but still had the same error message on ZFS.  There are a lot of changes between the 1.4.1 version in our build and the 1.4.2 version at github.  I did not look to see what all they did.
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> David

Hi David,

as I mentioned a while ago, I sometimes haves the same problem (using ZFS too), but then I just start the build process again, and it starts at the same point where it stopped and then finishes the build.
Have you tried that too? And does it work for you as well?

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> On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 6:06 AM Michael Keuter <li...@mk...> wrote:
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> > Am 09.04.2020 um 22:52 schrieb David Kerr <da...@ke...>:
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> > I think you know my opinion... I'm always one that likes to keep up-to-date so I definitely support the move.  I am not concerned about filesize increases, though it is definitely something to highlight and find out if other users care.  I just don't know if this runs the risk of not working on very old h/w.
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> > I would also like us to look at what has changed inside the fs directory at buildroot and figure out if it is an easy upgrade for us.  Specifically buildroot no longer uses genext2fs.  That is where my builds fail with the ZFS filesystem and it looks like genext2fs has not been updated in 7 years.  I don't know if what buildroot uses now fixes the problem or not, but that is where I would start -- but will that open a whole other mess?  For example, I think you have to now set a filesystem size manually rather than have it auto calculated by the fs/ext2/genext2fs.sh script (which is gone now).
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> > Maybe we should fork a astlinux-next project on github and do a lot of experimenting there before messing too much with the mainline.
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> > David
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> BTW: Here is an updated version of "genext2fs":
> https://github.com/bestouff/genext2fs
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> Maybe this fixes your ZFS issues.
> 
> Michael

Michael

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