Re: [PATCH v2] conf: Add support for new debian distro "buster"

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2018-08-16 17:10, Henning Schild wrote:
> Am Thu, 16 Aug 2018 17:04:53 +0200
> schrieb Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>:
> 
>> On 2018-08-16 17:03, Henning Schild wrote:
>>> Am Thu, 16 Aug 2018 16:51:29 +0200
>>> schrieb Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>:
>>>    
>>>> On 2018-08-16 16:49, [ext] Henning Schild wrote:
>>>>> Am Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:57:44 +0300
>>>>> schrieb "Maxim Yu. Osipov" <mosipov@ilbers.de>:
>>>>>       
>>>>>> Hi Henning,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It seems that under jessie we have similar problem with
>>>>>> unsupported syscall with qemuarm as we had with qemuarm64 on
>>>>>> stretch:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> cat
>>>>>> build/tmp/work/debian-buster-armhf/buildchroot-target/temp/log.do_build:
>>>>>> === Setting up libperl5.26:armhf (5.26.2-7) ...
>>>>>> Setting up man-db (2.8.4-2) ...
>>>>>> Building database of manual pages ...
>>>>>> qemu: Unsupported syscall: 383
>>>>>> ===
>>>>>>
>>>>>> May be it makes sense to exclude for now qemuarm from buster
>>>>>> patch (at least while we support jessie)?
>>>>>
>>>>> No. For arm64 i agree, we have that problem and can not build
>>>>> buster images from any distro < buster. But for arm we just have
>>>>> that problem for debian8 and not 9, so arm should be part of the
>>>>> patch.
>>>>
>>>> So, qemu-user-static from buster works fine? Is there possibly some
>>>> backport of that available for stretch?
>>>
>>> I did not try that yet, and there do not seem to be backports.
>>>    
>>
>> As it's "static", we would likely be fine with the buster package -
>> provided that helps.
> 
> I am just testing that ... will let you guys know.
> 

Perfect.

> Even if in Isar we will either have to document that or try and issue
> warnings. Putting that qemu in "our" container would only work for
> people using that.

It would be a workaround. I parallel, the issue could be brought up 
upstream. I'm sure Debian is interested as well to support 
qemu-debootstrap on stretch for buster...

Jan

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