Feature #9421
Upgrade the overlayfs branch to Linux 4.x
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Description
It’s now in sid. The main blocker is that the amd64 kernel flavour is not built anymore for the i386 architecture, so we have to use dpkg --add-architecture amd64, and adjust APT sources so that we fetch the indices (of the suites we want to fetch the kernel from) for amd64 in addition to i386.
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Resolved | 2015-06-18 |
History
#1 Updated by intrigeri 2015-06-12 11:18:06
- related to
Feature #9381: Ship an amd64 syslinux binary in the ISO added
#2 Updated by intrigeri 2015-06-12 11:18:56
- Status changed from Confirmed to In Progress
- Assignee set to intrigeri
Giving it a try, mainly because Feature #9381 needs the same background work.
#3 Updated by intrigeri 2015-06-12 11:38:52
Applied in changeset commit:d95dd2a44d0d5b15e71d5ae0cb738979be18d81c.
#4 Updated by intrigeri 2015-06-12 12:05:33
- Assignee changed from intrigeri to anonym
- % Done changed from 0 to 10
- QA Check set to Info Needed
- Feature Branch set to feature/8415-overlayfs
It’s now done, but it still can’t build Tails/Wheezy: Linux 4.x from unstable adds a versioned Breaks on udev (<< 208-8~), due to https://bugs.debian.org/756312 and https://bugs.debian.org/752742. Too bad, given we had actually imported the fix with commit:d8c7e82.
So, either we backport a newer udev for Wheezy (which can have a number of “interesting” side-effects), or we rebuild src:linux to drop this versioned Breaks (please, no), or we decide that overlayfs and Linux 4.x+ will be for Tails/Jessie, and Tails/Wheezy will stick to Jessie’s Linux 3.16. I’m tempted to go for the later solution. anonym, any opinion?
#5 Updated by anonym 2015-06-12 14:49:37
- Assignee changed from anonym to intrigeri
- QA Check changed from Info Needed to Dev Needed
The alternatives look painful, so let’s base this branch on feature/jessie and aim for overlayfs support there instead.
#6 Updated by intrigeri 2015-06-12 21:55:00
- % Done changed from 10 to 20
Done => this branch is now based on feature/jessie. It builds, however:
- dkms modules building has been temporarily disabled (and might be quite painful to re-enable);
- the amd64 kernel entry in syslinux doesn’t work since the amd64 kernel wasn’t properly renamed to
vmlinuz2during the build process; I think that’s because I’ve removed “amd64” from--linux-flavoursand/or because currently different version of the kernel are installed on i386 and amd64;config/binary_local-hooks/should allow us to hack around that.
#7 Updated by intrigeri 2015-07-13 03:50:17
- Target version set to Sustainability_M1
#8 Updated by intrigeri 2015-07-13 03:52:36
- Assignee deleted (
intrigeri)
#9 Updated by intrigeri 2015-08-11 03:18:22
> and/or because currently different version of the kernel are installed on i386 and amd64;
That’s not the case anymore, but the problem is still here, so it can’t be the cause of this problem.
#10 Updated by intrigeri 2015-08-11 03:29:29
- Subject changed from Upgrade the overlayfs branch to Linux 4.0 to Upgrade the overlayfs branch to Linux 4.x
#11 Updated by intrigeri 2015-08-11 07:22:56
- Status changed from In Progress to Resolved
- % Done changed from 20 to 100
- QA Check deleted (
Dev Needed)
intrigeri wrote:
> Done => this branch is now based on feature/jessie. It builds, however:
It now boots fine.
> * dkms modules building has been temporarily disabled (and might be quite painful to re-enable);
That’s now Bug #9969.
> * the amd64 kernel entry in syslinux doesn’t work since the amd64 kernel wasn’t properly renamed to vmlinuz2 during the build process; I think that’s because I’ve removed “amd64” from --linux-flavours and/or because currently different version of the kernel are installed on i386 and amd64; config/binary_local-hooks/ should allow us to hack around that.
Fixed in commit:2ba123b.
#12 Updated by sajolida 2015-09-07 10:54:49
- Target version changed from Sustainability_M1 to 2016