Re: [uml-devel] UML tools anywhere?

[Richard W. <ri...@no...>]

Am 14.07.2016 um 05:08 schrieb Mattia Dongili:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:11:03PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 5:02 AM, Mattia Dongili <mal...@li...> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Does anybody knows if there is any newer version of the tools package
>>> (the one with tunctl, uml_mount and friends)?
>>>
>>> I'm maintaining[1] the package in Debian and I was wondering whether the
>>> original code is hosted somewhere.
>>
>> http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/old/dl-sf.html
>>
>> There is no newer version.
> 
> Ha! interesting. I even have a 20070815 (and others post-2004) version
> that is not on that page. I'm wondering how I got that, maybe just a
> snapshot off of CVS.

Sorry, sent you the wrong link, was late yesterday. ;)
http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/downloads.html

It matches what you have, but still old.

>> Do you have a list of issues in the current utilities?
> 
> There are some in the Debian bug tracking system, some (most?) are related to
> packaging issues though[1].
> 
>> Maybe I should take this as chance to convert them to git and make
>> a new release.
> 
> Well my number one wishlist item would be to change the hand rolled
> makefile to something more maintainable where if I have to pass, say,
> LDFLAGS, it'll get honoured by all tools.

Agreed.

> I can certainly help with that, since I would like to do that work
> anyway in order to refresh the debian package. If you want to stuff the
> code in a git repository I can send patches in.

That would be great!

Step one would be converting the CVS repo to git:
http://user-mode-linux.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/user-mode-linux/tools/

Can you do that?

Thanks,
//richard