On 2/14/02 at 4:28 PM, Serge Caron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 22:34:18 -0600 > >From: David Douthitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: Standards and due process :-) > >To: LEAF Development <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >On 2/13/02 at 8:16 PM, Serge Caron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >How's this different from Oxygen and Dachstein and how > >they read their configuration data from the floppy? I > >can create a package which contains nothing but > >configuration files, put it onto a floppy disk, and boot > >the Oxygen Bootable CDROM using that configuration....
> The point is that this default store is loaded last, > overwriting anything loaded from ANY package. It is not > package specific and it is all inclusive (as far as /etc > and /var go). The Oxygen config.lrp is the same exact thing - except instead of pulling from /etc and /var, it pulls all configuration files. Just like yours, it is loaded LAST. That's what makes it a configuration file; it doesn't matter where in the boot process it is found; it is still loaded last (saved in /tmp and loaded from there...) > >For booting purposes the use of root.lrp is dead; > >however, a script to convert root.lrp to a root.gz is > >practically a neccessity. The LRP patches can't be used > >on any kernel newer than 2.4.5 last I heard; so this > >kills the use of a *.tar.gz file for booting. > Am I to understand that this will be a ONE-TIME script, > run as part of an installation procedure, or is this a > viable option that users sticking with 2.2 kernels will > have in the long run? Neither. This would be general purpose script to be used this way: # cd /tmp # apkg -c root # mkfs.image root | gzip -c - > /mnt/floppy/root.gz ...or some variation. The script I'm refering to is here called mkfs.image. > >a real Repository would be with hyperlinks, descriptions, > >home pages, etc.... and requires a new package extension. > > I've not done as much as I ought, but it mainly uses a > >new file /var/lib/lrpkg/<pkg>.desc which contains all of > >the information.... > Grrreat! Here is the dope for > http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/scaron/nistnet.lrp The file I mentioned would be included in nistnet.lrp, and would be similar to: Name: nistnet Version: 2.0.10 URL: http://www.antd.nist.gov/itg/nistnet/nistnet-2.0.10.tar.gz Description: A Network Emulator from the US NIST Group: Network/Diagnostics ...and so forth. I'm going from memory; check http://leaf.sf.net/pub/oxygen/development/ for more information. As I said, it needs work. -- David Douthitt UNIX Systems Administrator HP-UX, Unixware, Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
