On 29/07/07 05:20 +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:56:41AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
images that also work for booting Etherboot/Netboot devices based on commercial BIOS.
This should just be a quick test - but IIRC Etherboot can boot mkelfImage output just fine.
In the process of packaging mkelfImage, a number of issues related to the upstream tarball came up, which prompted me to contact the people mentioned in AUTHORS
I think Eric Biederman is the person to talk to.
The main issues are a non-pristine upstream 2.7 tarball and a rather convoluted autotools implementation that makes it very difficult to cleanly build this software in a repeatable way.
Ok. Dunno. I just ./configure && make && make install (or actually the equivalent in my Gentoo ebuild) and it's very repeatable for me.
I am wondering .. to become the new upstream?
Could you do it?
This tool is useful enough to us that we should probably ask Eric if we can bring it over to the lb.o SVN and keep it on life support for a while.
Jordan