[Mageia-dev] How to Test the new uClibc?

Thu Aug 9 09:10:06 CEST 2012

On 9 August 2012 08:31, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il> wrote:
+>> wrote:
+>> >> since the new busybox (which I maintain in Mageia) package did not
+>> >> build with the uClibc version that was present in Cauldron, I grab
+>> >> maintainership for uClibc too, and commited a new uClibc package
+>> >> to the svn (based a lot on the Mandriva Cooker package).
+>> >>
+>> >> However, now I'm wondering how to best test it to make sure
+>> >> nothing got broken. Which programs are using it on a Mageia system
+>> >> that I can use to test?
+>> >
+>> > Not that much.
+>> > If busybox tools still work, just go on...
+>>
+>> Ping! It's time to make cauldron hot!
+>
+> I don't know if you attended that IRC conversation, so let me quote it (I am rindolf):
+
+I didn't.
+
+(...)
+
+> So I'm back at square 1, and don't know how to further proceed. If someone more capable than me can take
+> it upon themselves, then it would be great.
+
+I think's Neoclust worries for nothing.
+
+There not that much packages using uclibc:
+
+busybox-1.20.2-1.mga3.src
+CCfits-2.4-1.mga3.src
+liblzo-2.06-1.mga2.src
+libx86-1.1-11.mga2.src
+lvm2-2.02.95-5.mga3.src
+newt-0.52.14-2.mga3.src
+pciutils-3.1.10-1.mga3.src
+slang-2.2.4-4.mga3.src
+sysfsutils-2.1.0-14.1.mga3.src
+util-linux-2.21.2-3.mga3.src
+wmbattery-2.40-1.mga2.src
+wmfire-1.2.4-1.mga2.src
+zlib-1.2.7-4.mga3.src
+
+Note that of those are unused
+(busybox/pciutils/newt/slang/sysfsutils/zlib) unlike
+mdv who choose to bloat installer by compiling with uclibc instead of dietlibc
+
+What's more, the remaining ones (util-linux, lvm2 (maybe busybox?)) were
+used with old mkinitrd but I think dracut now use glibc linked ones.
+Colin, can you confirm?
+
+So I don't think it's that much critical.
+At worst, we can check that regenerating initrd on a LVM machine still
+boots.
+