Re: [Cooker] OT: Where's the beef ?

2002-08-16 Thread Brad Felmey

On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 17:57, Frank Griffin wrote:

> Austin Acton wrote:
> 
> > See below...
> 
> Thanks !

Keep in mind that Mandrake's RPM HOWTO is dreadfully out-of-date the
last time I checked.
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Brad Felmey





Re: [Cooker] OT: Where's the beef ?

2002-08-15 Thread Frank Griffin

Austin Acton wrote:

> See below...
>

Thanks !





Re: [Cooker] OT: Where's the beef ?

2002-08-15 Thread Austin Acton

See below...

On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 17:29, Frank Griffin wrote:
> Just out of curiosity (this being the first time I've been involved with
> an MDK beta), where does one look to find all the policies and
> procedures for what's going on here ?  Such as maintaining a cooker
> mirror, burning CDs from it, and so forth.

www.mandrakelinux.com/en/cookerdevel.php3

> 
> Also, are there any docs on creating Mandrake RPMs (as opposed to
> regular ones) for contribution ?

www.mandrakelinux.com/en/howtos/mdk-rpm

Austin




Re: [Cooker] OT: Where's the beef ?

2002-08-15 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler

On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Frank Griffin wrote:

> Just out of curiosity (this being the first time I've been involved with
> an MDK beta), where does one look to find all the policies and
> procedures for what's going on here ?  Such as maintaining a cooker
> mirror, burning CDs from it, and so forth.
Try http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/cookerdevel.php3
 
> Also, are there any docs on creating Mandrake RPMs (as opposed to
> regular ones) for contribution ?
Try http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/howtos/mdk-rpm/

> As far as debugging goes, are there any internal docs about the
> structure of the startup and shutdown scripts, as regards what lives
> where ?  I've been a Slackware person since the early 90's until
> I picked up MDK 7.1 (or was it 7.2 ?), and the first thing that struck
> me was that a lot of things weren't where I was used to finding them.
> I've pawed through some of it to get new hardware working, but if
> there's a road map I could certainly use it.
This seems to vary from distro to distro. The best I could do is 
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.1-Manual/ref-guide/s1-boot-init-shutdown-booting.html

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