Re: sbuild on hurd-amd64...

Le 22/08/2025 à 14:10, Samuel Thibault a écrit :
>> boot was not actually ever tested on 64b, its ELF loading was assuming
>> 32b. I have now fixed it upstream and uploaded a -3 package, which
>> should get built & uploaded soonish.
> 
> It's now in.

Thank you. I've managed to make it work. It was not "easy" to do without 
root privileges. I've documented it at:

  
https://salsa.debian.org/glondu/hurd-notes/-/blob/master/rootless-subhurd.md

>> FI, apparently ATM when using a file as image, libstore uses 1-byte
>> block size, and thus disk sizes should be smaller than 2G otherwise
>> boot's device size reporting interface gets wrong.
> 
> (an alternative is to use a disk partition, which report 512-byte block
> size)
> 
> Perhaps we could make libstore use 512-byte block size when the file is
> multiple of 512 bytes. It could also be configurable, by introducing a
> libstore layer (similarly to the part libstore layer)

It makes sense, but I'm not yet there.


Cheers,