[FSUG-Bangalore] Recognition for Madhu's work (Fwd: Bits from the Debian GNU/Hurd porters)

Tue Sep 16 11:36:29 IST 2008

A big congratz from my side madhu... :)

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Praveen A <pravi.a at gmail.com> wrote:

> Great Work Madhu !!! We are proud of you for the hard work you have
> done !!! It was such an important task and you have stood up to the
> challenge and delivered.
>
> And you truly deserve this special mention. I'm sure this would be a
> great motivations to many students.
>
> Keep up the good work.
>
> Happy Hacking
> Praveen
>
> PS: We should plan to give a special gift to Madhu on SFD to celebrate
> this.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Michael Banck <mbanck at debian.org>
> Date: 2008/9/15
> Subject: Bits from the Debian GNU/Hurd porters
> To: debian-devel-announce at lists.debian.org
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> it has been more than three years since the last "Bits from the Debian
> GNU/Hurd porters"[1], high time for an update on the port.
>
>  * Snapshot releases
>
> Three new snapshot releases have been done by Philip Charles, K14, K15
> (which was only done as an updated mini CD-ISO, not a full snapshot),
> and K16.  K16 has been released[2] on December 18th, 2007 featuring four
> CDs or two DVDs.  Additionally, it also features a ready-to-go
> qemu-image[3] for the first time.  K16 was also the first snapshot which
> included TLS (Thread Local Storage), a requirement for modern glibcs.
> New ported packages include Qt3, Qt4, SDL and Emacs22.
>
>  * Base and toolchain status
>
> Currently, most base packages are current, with the notable exception of
> util-linux, which has been a big problem over the last years.  However,
> Samuel Thibault got all outstanding issues of util-linux applied
> upstream so the version in experimental is mostly working.  The
> toolchain is in pretty good shape as well since TLS support got
> implemented; we are using the current glibc, binutils and gcc Debian
> packages unmodified.
>
>  * Xen support
>
> Besides qemu, which can be very slow to run, a Xen DomU port for GNU
> Mach has been made available by Samuel Thibault.  It requires a non-PAE
> hypervisor and some minor manual tweaking, but is otherwise quite
> functional and stable already, see its wiki page[4] for further
> information.  This will make people running the Hurd less dependent on
> specific hardware, as a lot of newer computers do not work with the
> underlying GNU Mach kernel anymore.
>
>  * Autobuilder availability and archive coverage improved
>
> The percentage of packages built for Debian GNU/Hurd has improved from
> 40% to now nearly 60%[5] since the last Bits from the porters.  Further,
> the backlog of outdated packages has been greatly reduced.  This is due
> to the addition of two[6][7] Xen autobuilders earlier this year, which
> made the hurd-i386 autobuilders far more robust and fault-tolerant as
> they not need local admin attention anymore in case of problems with the
> GNU/Hurd guests.
>
> The remaining 40% of packages are either waiting for other packages to
> become available (see [8] for a (big) graph of those relationships) or
> are failing for some reason[9]; a complete list of build failures can be
> found at [10].
>
>  * Developer machine
>
> We are currently working on getting a general DD-accessible porter box
> setup.  In the meantime, interested people can contact
> hurd-shell-account at gnu.org to get an account on one of the publically
> accessible (Debian) GNU/Hurd developer machines.  For further details,
> see [11].
>
>  * Summer of Code 2008
>
> This year, the GNU Hurd participated as its own organization at Google's
> Summer of Code, thanks to the coordination done by Olaf Buddenhagen[12].
> All of the 5 projects were carried out quite successfully.  The most
> practically relevant project for Debian GNU/Hurd was the implementation
> of a procfs translator[13] by Madhusudan C.S., which provides a
> traditional Unix-style /proc file system and the subsequent porting of
> the procps package, so utilities like pgrep etc. will be available after
> lenny, and procps Build-Depends no longer need to be special-cased on
> hurd-i386.
>
> Other GSoC projects were lisp bindings by Flavio Cruz, better system
> debugging and tracing by Andrei Barbu, namespace-based translator
> selection by Sergiu Ivanov and network virtualization by Zheng Da.  More
> information on the details and outcome of those projects can be found on
> the wiki[14].
>
>  * Still no debian-installer
>
> Unfortunately, the Debian GNU/Hurd port still lacks d-i support.  On the
> other hand, debootstrap now mostly works, even to cross-debootstrap a
> hurd-i386 installation from GNU/Linux, if one works around bug #498731.
> A relatively easy solution could be to use the GNU/Linux d-i to
> cross-install and setup a Debian GNU/Hurd system.  People who have
> experience in d-i and possibly Debian GNU/Hurd are more than welcome to
> contact us at debian-hurd at lists.debian.org.
>
>
> for the Debian GNU/Hurd porters,
>
> Michael Banck
>
> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/07/msg00006.html
> [2] http://kerneltrap.org/node/15770
> [3]
> http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/K16/debian-hurd-k16-qemu.img.tar.gz
> [4] http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/microkernel/mach/gnumach/ports/xen/<http://www.bddebian.com/%7Ewiki/microkernel/mach/gnumach/ports/xen/>
> [5] http://buildd.debian-ports.org/stats/
> [6]
> http://buildd.net/cgi/hostpackages.cgi?unstable_arch=hurd-i386&searchtype=bach
> [7]
> http://buildd.net/cgi/hostpackages.cgi?unstable_arch=hurd-i386&searchtype=mozart
> [8] http://dept-info.labri.fr/~thibault/tmp/graph-radial.pdf<http://dept-info.labri.fr/%7Ethibault/tmp/graph-radial.pdf>
> [9] http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/unsorted/PortingIssues/<http://www.bddebian.com/%7Ewiki/unsorted/PortingIssues/>
> [10] http://unstable.buildd.net/buildd/hurd-i386_Failed.html
> [11] http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/public_hurd_boxen/<http://www.bddebian.com/%7Ewiki/public_hurd_boxen/>
> [12] http://code.google.com/soc/2008/hurd/about.html
> [13] http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/hurd/news/20080903T160206Z.html
> [14] http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/community/gsoc/<http://www.bddebian.com/%7Ewiki/community/gsoc/>
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