Hi Adrian,

Nice that someone knowledgeable stepped in to salvage aboot.
Thanks in advance !

May I ask if there is a git repository (in salsa ?) following the
debian variation of aboot ? (and including the history as a bonus ?)

Three RC bugs are listed for src:aboot, with at least partial
solutions for two of them.

1/ This last one is #949711 about the build-dep 'sgmltool-lite' soon
removed from the archive. 'sgmltools' from package 'sgmltool-lite'
is run at line 7 of file doc/faq/Makefile (only ocurrence as far
as I can see)
sgmltools --backend=html SRM-HOWTO.sgml
The package 'docbook-utils' is a build dependency of aboot yet
and includes docbook2html.
$ docbook2html SRM-HOWTO.sgml
succeeded for me (at least on amd64 running stretch). Does it
make sense to patch the source of aboot accordingly ?

In a farther future, do we want to keep a source in Docbook SGML ?

2/ The current maintainer mentioned [1] that aboot needs to produce an
arch:all package (aboot-base) on arch:alpha. See bug #805988 (and #821332). However, it should be possible to cross-build aboot, as suggesteed by
the current maintainer [2] (at that time, I managed to cross-build aboot
on amd64 and I booted successfully a real AlphaWorkstation 500 with it :
see [3] and the followings. I haven't tested with current sid since).
However, the patches should be cleaned and I never managed to find the time (sorry).

3/ And #832491 about the build dep 'sp' removed, with two patches included.
And a ':native' annotation added to the build dep opensp is required as
well in order to cross-build (or solve #854518).

Sorry that I have no time currently to test myself.
I hope it will help nevertheless !

Regards,
JH Chatenet

[1] : https://bugs.debian.org/cgi.bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=949711#10
[2] : https://bugs.debian.org/cgi.bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=805988#58
[3] : https://bugs.debian.org/cgi.bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=805988#78

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On 1/31/20 2:19 AM, jhcha54008 wrote:

May I ask if there is a git repository (in salsa ?) following the
debian variation of aboot ? (and including the history as a bonus ?)

I have not created such a repository yet. I have to ask Steve whether
he's got one for his packaging.

Three RC bugs are listed for src:aboot, with at least partial
solutions for two of them.

1/ This last one is #949711 about the build-dep 'sgmltool-lite' soon
removed from the archive. 'sgmltools' from package 'sgmltool-lite'
is run at line 7 of file doc/faq/Makefile (only ocurrence as far
as I can see)
sgmltools --backend=html SRM-HOWTO.sgml
The package 'docbook-utils' is a build dependency of aboot yet
and includes docbook2html.
$ docbook2html SRM-HOWTO.sgml
succeeded for me (at least on amd64 running stretch). Does it
make sense to patch the source of aboot accordingly ?

Yes, I'm aware of that. I have already verified that myself yesterday.

In the long-term, it would make more sense though to convert the SGML
files to XML.

In a farther future, do we want to keep a source in Docbook SGML ?

No.

2/ The current maintainer mentioned [1] that aboot needs to produce an arch:all package (aboot-base) on arch:alpha. See bug #805988 (and #821332). However, it should be possible to cross-build aboot, as suggesteed by
the current maintainer [2] (at that time, I managed to cross-build aboot
on amd64 and I booted successfully a real AlphaWorkstation 500 with it :
see [3] and the followings. I haven't tested with current sid since). However, the patches should be cleaned and I never managed to find the time (sorry).

I don't think we necessarily have to cross-compile everything, but I haven't decided yet.

Please note that we addressed a very similar issue in src:palo and solved
it by cross-compiling.

3/ And #832491 about the build dep 'sp' removed, with two patches included.

What patches? For "sp", we can also just use "docbook2man" from docbook-utils, I already verified that.

And a ':native' annotation added to the build dep opensp is required as
well in order to cross-build (or solve #854518).

I don't want to use opensp but just docbook-utils only.

See this issue on github [1].

Adrian

[1] https://github.com/mattst88/aboot/issues/1

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