Dear Daniel,

I'm sorry that I can't help you here, as I never got Mandrake 7.1beta
ISOs created, and I didn't really even write that script.

Let me tell you what happened:

MandrakeSoft announced 7.1beta, with a ISO building script.
Since the only server with premade ISOs would only transfer at 15k
per second (slow...), I downloaded it using rsync. Just by looking
at their ISO building script, I immediately knew it would not work.
So I rewrote it. It was much better, you didn't have to change paths
throughout the entire script. Mandrake also forgot the rpmslist file,
which prevented me from doing it. They seemed to refuse to talk to me,
just quietly doing things, with no email. I was surprised to see my
fixed script show up on their website, with my name on it. Apparently,
they had made more changes to it, which broke it again. Even inserting
whitespaces in the middle of comments! They apparently have kept working
on it. I never finished a working script, and they wouldn't really help
me. I tried to help, but eventually I decided that I could be more
helpful somewhere else. I think I will ask Mandrake to remove my name
from the script too, since I'm really not responsible for it.

Thank you for understanding,

Kenny : )

On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 04:00:20AM +0200, Daniel Hammer wrote:
> BS''D
> 
> 
> Dear Kenny,
> 
> I have some problems with your shell script "mkh.sh" which
> can be found on the Mandrake Beta site:
> 
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hydrobeta.php3
> 
> Maybe you can help me !?
> 
> What I did:
> 
> 1.) First I downloaded all files from
> sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/
> using wget and then started your scrip
> 
> 2.)  Here I got for "genhdlist_cz2", "gendepslist2" and "genfilelist"
> the error message "command not found"
> I found  "genhdlist_cz2" and  "gendepslist2" in the directory
> sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/misc/
> copied all executable files to my /usr/bin directory
> 
> 3.) I created the two iso images for Hydrogen Beta and burned them
> to a CD
> 
> Now:
> 
> a)  I could not create a filelist since I did not found the
> "genfilelist"
> executable/script
> b)  When installing from these CD's the install process failed with
> a message  "deplist.ordered mismatch against hdlist files"
> 
> Any suggestions ???
> Any answer from you I would appreciate !
> 
> Best,
> 
> Daniel.



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