-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 October 19, 2003 06:11 am, Thomas Backlund wrote: > [...] > > >Have you run gendistrib yet? I believe that's used to clean the trees > before building ISOs but I could be wrong. I'm sure there are notes about it on the TWiki (cooker). > > gendistrib if for prepairing the tree for hd / network installs... > you don't need it for making cds...
I guess that's another of those things I do from habit then. Left over from too many urpmi errors/installation failed messages. > both gendistrib and makecd does that procedure... > gendistrib verifies dependencies and write one hdlist.cz / synthesis for > the whole media, leaving out the packages that don't have their > depencies met... After I posted that reply I ran makecd against my local cooker tree to build a set of disks for a friend that wants to participate but has "broadband" that isn't quite. Tons and tons of errors/warnings but it did generate disks. I'll post if they aren't usable for an install. That won't necessarily apply to the 9.2 tree though. It's a cooker tree. > as for makecd is does the exact same thing, but it splits up hdlist.cz > and synthesis based on amount of cd's, and their contents.... > (so urpmi/rpmdrake will know on wich cd to look...) > [...] > > > I'll probably wait for the power pack, too. I was just curious as to > > how to do it. The CDs I made, did boot, but I didn't try installing > > because of all of the dependency errors (most of them in apach2, but > > there were others, too, like gdm). My real reason to try was that I > > have a high speed connection from work, but not home. But the work > > connection does work with BitTorrent. So, I could ftp the 9.2 tree down > > and I thought I would build my own ISOs. Like I said, the process was > > pretty smooth (although lengthy) and I ended up with 8 CDs (I included > > contrib, too). But, with all of those dependency errors, I didn't want > > to risk screwing something up (my test linux box is temporarily in > > production). > > The dependency problems is only makecd's way to inform you > that those packages won't be on the cd's as you cant install them > anyway... > so it does make the cd's installable ... > > > In reality, downloading the tree and running MakeCD was not > > significantly more work that ftp'ing ISOs. Oh well, the powerpack > > should be shipping in the next two weeks! > > > > Joeb > > Regards > > Thomas I'll eventually attain knowledge enough to be as helpful as some others on these lists. Maybe....if my head doesn't explode. (-: My mission at the moment though is to see how long I can keep this cooker install up to date without having to reboot/hd install. The only real reason to reboot now would be to start using one of the newer kernels I've installed. I really am good at breaking things through sheer ape-like curiosity though. <g> Speaking of kernels; I for one appreciate all your hard work on that front. Thanks Thomas. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk 10:51:11 up 29 days, 14 min, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.04, 0.21 You know you've landed gear-up when it takes full power to taxi. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/ksgOG11CaRuZZSIRAn2ZAJ919b8Qbv1yJzpi5jpDYbHhYUBgNgCeP+UZ 3Z3D+uB4kZZP9BmBTSIKBj4= =VEaz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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