Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 19:15:18 +0900 From: "Akinori MUSHA" <knu@iDaemons.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Satoshi Asami <asami@clickarray.com>, FreeBSD-ports <ports@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: OSREL on bento Message-ID: <86sndrqtvt.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> In-Reply-To: <20010913030929.A34023@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <86u1y7qzzc.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> <20010913030929.A34023@xor.obsecurity.org>
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At Thu, 13 Sep 2001 03:09:29 -0700,
Kris Kennaway wrote:
> I said this to you on IRC, but just so the rest of the group knows:
> bento builds packages on the cluster machines in a chroot populated
> with a version of the target OS. The question is really what version
> is being used in the chroot (it should hopefully be 4.4-RC to deal
> with ports like lsof which stick their fingers into libkvm and are
> therefore dependent on kernel headers being up-to-date). Things like
> uname are global across the system (uname reads a read-only sysctl),
> so they're harder to fake, but you could do this by replacing the
> uname binary. Apparently this isn't working correctly for recent
> package builds though.
As far as I know, Satoshi tweaks uname and other possible means to
detect the OS version in the chroot environment as far as possible
so the packages build and work on -RELEASE correctly.
But this time he might have forgotten to do that, obviously.
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