Re: [Leaf-devel] Upgrading Bering to libc 2.2.x?

[Kim O. <kim...@fr...>]

At 13:09 26/04/2002, Simon Blake wrote:


Would indeed make it to large for a single floppy release, but not for many 
of us that run dual floppy, flash, hdd or cdrom
based leaf's. So it there any chance you can post the packages somewhere? 
And maybe just maybe, if you can spare the time write a little
step-by-step document explaining what you did?

I know I would appreciate very much, and I expect I am not the only one

Kim

>Hi folks
>
>Nothing quite like replying to yourself a month later.  A few weeks ago,
>I had another go at converting Bering to glibc 2.2.5, and irritatingly,
>it pretty much worked first time :-).  I've now got a couple of routers
>out in the field running Bering RC1 and glibc 2.2.5, and it seems
>to be working a charm.  For those that asked, the increase in bloat
>probably rules out single floppy systems, but it's not enormous:
>
>Original Bering:
>-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       409022 Mar 19 00:56 initrd.lrp
>-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       317849 Mar 22 01:22 root.lrp
>
>Glib2.2 Bering:
>-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       916546 Apr  9 00:08 initrd.lrp
>-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       380303 Apr  8 23:02 root.lrp
>
>About the only trap in the transition is that you have to increase the
>size of the minix file system in initrd.lrp and of the initial ramdisk
>to accomodate the bloat.
>
>Cheers
>Si
>
>On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 01:45:55PM +1200, Simon Blake said:
>
> > Hi Folks
> >
> > I've been using Dachstein with a home grown upgrade to libc v2.2.4
> > (simply replacing most of /lib in root.lrp with the files from my debian
> > unstable box) - works a charm, and since I'm working of Compact Flash
> > the extra bloat isn't a huge issue.  It makes packaging easier (no need
> > to keep an old dev env around), and makes some otherwise uncompilable
> > code accessible (notably vrrpd and some of the LVS stuff).
> >
> > So, I've tried the same thing with Bering - upgraded libc and ld-linux
> > in initrd.lrp, and the rest of /lib in root.lib.  It all seems to work,
> > except that root can no longer login (gets an error about UNKNOWN user
> > on tty1).  Now, I'm aware that that's probably not a Bering specific
> > error, but I'm wondering if anybody else has done something like this
> > and solved this problem, before I dive in and try and fix it myself.
> > Are there plans for a libc2.2 based Bering?
> >
> > Cheers
> > Si
> >
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