RE: s390 lsbsi diffs

"Wichmann, Mats D" <[email protected]> Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:39:08 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lsb.implementation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> > There are no defines for linux-s390-package or linux-s390-diff.
> > The lack of these is what caused the error you saw.
> 
> > Can you supply the correct values?
> 
> I found this to be the problem as well. However, I'm guessing
> that the problem was not to put the entities in the 
> entities/package file but to take them out from the 
> */kernel.xml file. My rational was that ia64 seems
> to be doing something especial by expanding
> linux-2.4.19-ia64-020821.diff.bz2 plus providing patches 
> through linux-2.4.19-ia64-020821.diff. At this time I 
> have no idea what would be the patches needed for zSeries 
> so I took the entries out of kernel.xml.

I think that's right.  I looked; there's nothing for
s390 in kernel.org's ports tree.  The ia64 kernel
project maintains a separate patchset, some fold back
into Linus' kernel tree but a lot don't.

> I got a little further. However, I hit another problem which 
> I'm thinking I
> could be easily fixed if I find the right file. For some reason the
> texinfo-4.3.tar.bz2 is 0 bytes long. Do you know where I can 
> get this file?

Try removing the file and rerunning 'extras/entitycheck.py -f'.
The entity checker also has a checksum option (-c) which you can
use to make sure all the tarballs are valid. Sometimes it can
get fooled if it failed to fetch the file but the zero-length
file didn't get removed (I've tried to stamp this bug out
but it's resisting me).

We've also got all the packages mirrored at
ftp.freestandards.org/pub/lsb/impl/packages
as a fallback if the regular locations fail.
Due to a slight bobble this morning they may not
all be restored quite yet, but should all be
on-line by tomorrow.

Cheers,

Mats