Adrian Likins wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 01:16:01PM +0100, Matt Gumbley wrote:
> >
> > Question: Does Lorax differ vastly from the RH 6.0 Way?
> >
> Yes and no. trees/ is pretty similar to 6.0, but /misc/src/install and
> /misc/src/installinit are gone and replaced with anaconda/, the new python
> and newt/gtk based installer.
OK, I'll take a look at Lorax. /misc/src/install gone? What about
genhdlist, dmphdlist, mapshdr, snarffont, etc? (Presumably these have
moved into the anaconda directory...)
Is there a published list of the differences between Lorax and
6.0/updates?
(If not, I could whip one together...)
> > There is probably a definite order in which the upd* scripts should be
> > run, before the mk* scripts are run.
>
> For generating boot images, you usually dont need to rebuild
> the installer itself, just run the mkboot,etc scripts in trees/.
True; I just get a comforting feeling, knowing that everything has been
built from the One Good Tree, not containing a version here, a version
there...
> > Some questions:
> > If I want to build an RH distribution containing some new version of the
> > kernel throughout (say, the imaginary 2.2.100 when it comes out!) - how
> > do I take Linus' released kernel .tar.gz, and turn it into a set of RPMs
> > that I could place on a CD, and use during the above updboots process?
> >
> Well, you need to make kernel rpms of them. Grabbing the src rpm
> (not the kernel-source.rpm...), and checking the spec file from it is
> probabaly the best place to start. kernel spec files tend to be on
> the complicated side as you can probabaly imagine. Not to mention
> builing all of them takes forever.
... and I suspect that some kind person at RedHat has to modify the spec
file for each new kernel from Linus (Thanks!)...
> Once you build the rpms of the updated rpms, you need to run
> updboots and point <rpm-tree> to whereever the new rpms are. I usually
> just leave them sitting in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS and that seems to work.
> I'm no expert at this though, so your mileage may vary ;->
I'd probably copy them to /linmaster/mydist/RedHat/RPMS, and run
update-cat (from the RedHat CD Kit, found on FreshMeat)
I notice that I said to run updboots twice in my mail yesterday - forget
step 4, running it again after updsupp/updrescue, this was a typo.
> > I'm basing my "distribution" (!) on 2.2.5-15, the last kernel on
> > updates.redhat.com for 6.0. Say I'd like to go to the latest and
> > greatest - I believe I need to upgrade the NFS user space tools. If I
> > decide to do that, is there an RPM of these? If I decide to stick with
> > the latest ones for 6.0 on updates, or in the stock distribution, which
> > is the latest kernel I can use that will work successfully with them?
>
> 2.2.5-22 should be available also.
It is; my mistake; the machine I'm building this on hasn't been updated
much, yet ;-)
> > Is there a later version of the installer source, (not Lorax, which I
> > haven't investigated yet) ?
> >
> Not a real release no, but some of the rawhide releases between
> 6.0 and lorax might have an updated version. I would stick with 6.0's or
> lorax though.
OK, will do.
> Btw, good to see someone documenting this. You can only bug developers
> with questions so much before they start ignoring you ;->
>
> Adrian Likins
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for the response - I guess I'll have to get started on Lorax, or
all this /misc/src/install stuff will be Old Hat.
Cheers,
Matt
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