[2121] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: RedHat-Athena 5.1 packages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Tue Sep 1 14:16:48 1998
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 14:16:31 -0400 (EDT)
To: warlord@MIT.EDU
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <sjmzpcjyjdw.fsf@incommunicado.ihtfp.org> (message from Derek
Atkins on 01 Sep 1998 10:53:15 -0400)
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Hi. You wrote:
It looks like snork is running NetBSD. How/where did you install/run
Linux? Or did you boot it back into NetBSD when you finished?
I boot it into Linux mode to work on RedHat-Athena 5.1, and boot it
back into NetBSD mode so others can use it.
Also, where is the build-tree?
On the local disk, of course. It's a lot faster and easier than
building in AFS. And it wastes less valuable distributed disk space.
You should have used the Linux-Athena build directory,
/mit/linux/devel/athena. This way we can save the build tree easily
to rebuild the sources later.
I don't understand. We don't need a shared build tree to easily
rebuild the sources. If someone does create a build tree in AFS,
I have no interest in using it.
Also, the configuration file modification should be made in the source
tree...
When the configuration file modifications seem to work, either Aaron
or I will post them to sipb-source-review. If they are accepted, they
will be committed to the source tree. Sometime after that, we will
make "official" packages. (The packages I've created so far are for
more-or-less alpha testing of the configuration files and the rest of
the source tree for that matter.)
Alternatively, we can have a Linux-Athena source tree checked out of
AFS.
We already do, in the source-sipb locker. However, that's just for
reference. If you want to make any changes, check out a copy for
yourself.
> 4. Once every package builds, I will do a clean reinstall of RedHat
> 5.1 on snork...
You'll lose the build tree you made, which would be bad. You'll
also lose the srvd you created, which would also be bad.
There's no problem with losing the initial build tree and the initial
srvd. Once I've used a system running with just my initial 5.1
packages for a couple of days and have an idea about what works and
what doesn't, I'll make whatever changes seem appropriate, make sure
all my source tree changes are approved and committed, and rebuild the
srvd and the packages.
Once you do have working packages, I'd like to know...
Thanks. I'll keep you updated.
Have a nice day,
Sal.
