To all those involved in the soon to appear flaming session,... my appologies.
On 10/07/07, Tijnema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/10/07, Ross Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all Ive hit a bit of a stumbling block and cant seem to BASH script > > my way out of it :( > > > > As most of you will know when building binary packages for UNIX-like > > systems the output of > > make install > > is usually re-directed using something akin to > > make DESTDIR=<some temp folder> install > > > > And then that temp folder is tarballed up, or what ever compression > > the package manager uses, and a binary package is created from this. > > > > I've tried this approach (and several variants of it) to attempt this > > with the vanilla kernel sources from www.kernel.org and its not > > co-operating with me. > > > > The guys at redhat/fedora use a whole lot of "cp" commands in their > > kernel spec file to accomplish this but isn't there a simple way of > > re-directing the kernel's Makefile's logic that says everything must > > be installed under / ?????????? > > > > Any and all thoughts appreciated.... > > > > Ross > > Did you ever run a make install on the kernel? I Yes quite regularly actually,... I take it you haven't worked on a source based distro that uses LiLo recently have you,... I don't think so... > Just note what you install with a kernel, that is > a) The headers (already installed before Glibc, and should be upgraded > together with glibc) > b) The kernel itself (arch/i386/boot/bzImage) > c) If any, the modules that are compiled > d) Optional, but recommended as in the LFS book, the System.map and > .config files > e) Optional, the documentation > > Tijnema This all I am well aware of,... I was asking for assistance with building a "binary package" not how does LFS work. I've been building embedded GNU/Linux systems for 6years now,... what I am having issues with is part of a package management system I am putting together for embedded systems. Far too many micro-distro's don't make use of proper package management and this I feel is a necessary change. Ciao Ross PS: Once again apologies for starting a public argument,... but lets all try not assume things when answering people on mailing lists. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
