comments on current status before moving on

diff --git a/wexlxc.mk b/wexlxc.mk
index c6e4be6..6032f60 100644 (file)
--- a/wexlxc.mk
+++ b/wexlxc.mk
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
+#################### status as of nov 29 2012
 #
-### status as of may 23 2012
-# this essentially targets f16 of course
-# however in f16 gnuradio comes as 3.4 while f14 had 3.2:
+########## gnuradio
+# in f16 gnuradio comes as 3.4 while f14 had 3.2:
 # [2012.05.23--wtx-f14-64] ~ # rpm -q gnuradio
 # gnuradio-3.2.2-9.fc14.x86_64
 # [2012.05.23--wexlxc-f16-64] ~ # rpm -q gnuradio
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@
 # we'll start with using plain lxc for orange and we'll see if that's a real issue
 # might as well be just fine
 #
-### moving forward I face another issue with spectools
+########## spectools
+# moving forward I face another issue with spectools
 #
 # gcc  -I./ -g -O2 -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12   -c spectool_raw.c -o spectool_raw.o
 # gcc spectool_container.o wispy_hw_gen1.o wispy_hw_24x.o wispy_hw_dbx.o spectool_net_client.o spectool_raw.o -o spectool_raw  -lpthread -lm -lusb 
@@ -34,7 +35,23 @@
 # 
 # putting this aside as well for now
 #
-### 
+########## nodeimage
+# with this distro we reach the bootstrapfs tarballs with these sizes for last attempt
+# 2263306240 /var/www/html/boot/bootstrapfs-wexlxc-f16-x86_64.tar
+#  639539315 /var/www/html/boot/bootstrapfs-wexlxc-f16-x86_64.tar.bz2
+#
+# related or not, rpm fails like this
+# Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /longbuildroot/BUILDROOT/nodeimage-wexlxc-f16-x86_64-2.1-2.2012.11.29.x86_64
+# Wrote: /longbuildroot/RPMS/noarch/nodeimage-wexlxc-f16-x86_64-2.1-2.2012.11.29.noarch.rpm
+# error: create archive failed on file /longbuildroot/BUILDROOT/nodeimage-wexlxc-f16-x86_64-2.1-2.2012.11.29.x86_64/var/www/html/boot/bootstrapfs-wexlxc-f16-x86_64.tar: cpio: Bad magic
+# which suggests that the -plain packaging is failing; 
+# the fact that cpio has a known limitation to 2Gb could be the culprit here, 
+# although it seemed from other that the rpm we use didn't have that limitation...
+# # rpm -q rpm
+# rpm-4.9.1.3-1.fc16.x86_64
+# 
+# dropping this for now; one way out would be to stop building the plain package, not sure how bad it would be for tests
+########################################
 #
 # declare the packages to be built and their dependencies
 # initial version from Mark Huang