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

Thu Aug 9 10:39:05 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 09/08/12 08:10 did gyre and gimble:
+> 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?
+
+Dracut just uses what is on the system, so yeah it'll use glibc unless
+some module pulls it in. There is a busybox module in dracut to allow it
+to be installed but it's not enabled by default AFAICT.
+
+> So I don't think it's that much critical.
+> At worst, we can check that regenerating initrd on a LVM machine still
+> boots.
+
+My machine is an LVM one, so I can likely test this, but as my current
+initrd does not have ulibc in it, I doubt very much this test will show
+anything other than success :)
+
+Cheers
+
+Col
+
+
+
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