On Tue, 26 Oct 1999,Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
| On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, mshirley wrote:
|
| > With all the problems with 6.1, is there a way to
| > make an updated 6.0 CD so that all the updates are
| > installed automagically? IE, I put the CD in, and
| > run install, etc, and get the new kernal, initscripts,
| > and heck even the new 2.2.13 kernal and XFree86 even.
| > Is there a file used for installation that says what files
| > are on the CD?
|
| Technically you could, yes. You'd just remove the packages you're replacing
| from Mandrake/RPMS, put the newer packages you want to use in Mandrake/RPMS,
| and then from the base of the distribution tree run:
|
| ./misc/genhdlist .
|
| To update the hdlist with the new packages.
|
| That's what I did when I made an updated M6.0 CD (with the updates specifically
| for 6.0). I can foresee you possibly having dependency problems when trying to
| mix 6.1 packages in, though; it's quite likely that there are slightly newer
| versions for some libraries (like gtk, qt, etc.) in 6.1 that some packages in
| 6.1 depend on, so you would need to add them too (and might as well toss in the
| newer development packages while you're at it). But THEN you MIGHT (or might
| not, your guess is as good as mine) break some of the 6.0 packages that are
| linked with slightly older libraries from 6.0.
|
| If you haven't actually tried 6.1 yet, I'd suggest giving it a try. It works
| great for me, and my impression of it is that it's less buggy than 6.0. There
| were some updates for 6.0 that ya just HAD to get, but I didn't even bother
| getting the 6.1 updates until I was burning a CD for a friend and figured I
| might as well put the existing updates on it.
|
| > Secondly, once I get this ready, can it be burnt in *GAK*
| > Windows, or do I actually need to figure out XCDroast?
|
| As far as I know, burning in Windows should be fine. Though I don't know if
| Windows burning programs allow you to use Rock Ridge extensions? I'd think you
| would want a Linux CD burned with Rock Ridge extensions (it's like the Linux
| version of Windows' Joliet).
|
| -Tom
Mandrake 6.1 works great here. The only problem I have found is that there
apears to be a conflict between the kcmclock package and the kdelibs package.
If you have this problem, remove the kcmclock package, and install the kdelibs
package in kpackage. Problem solved!
Ernie
