On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Michael Homer <mich...@gobolinux.org> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Leandro Motta Barros > <lmbar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello! >> >> I am using the packages from >> http://mwh.geek.nz/files/gobo/014.10/packages/ to make a major update >> to my system, which was presenting some problems after these years of >> small updates over small updates. I am doing almost an installation >> from scratch. I updated all the packages, disabled almost everything I >> had installed and now I am recompiling the stuff I need. >> >> So far, so good. The packages mostly work out of the box. I found just >> a few problems, which I am reporting now so that everyone else can be >> aware of them. >> >> (BTW, thank you very much to take the time to prepare those packages. >> They spared me a lot of trouble!) >> >> First, if this is going to be put into an updated ISO, there are some >> missing dependencies. So far, I've found that the following packages >> should be added: >> >> 1) Startup-Notification (Firefox needs it) >> 2) Popt (Rsync needs it) >> 3) PTH (GnuPG and LibAssuan need it) > Thanks for that list, I've put those packages into the store now. >> Second: when running traceroute and ping (from InetUtils), I get an >> error message like "unknown protocol icmp". I've found that the >> /s/s/protocols file is missing (crating a proper /s/s/protocols file >> solved the problem) I suppose that this file (and perhaps others) >> should have been distributed in the InetUtils' default settings. > That file is part of Netkit-Base here. I don't know whether that > program is suitable to use or not; I use InetUtils' ping but have > Netkit-Base's inetd linked in. If Netkit-Base should be missed out > /S/S/protocols will need to come from somewhere else. >> Finally, for an ISO, a GRUB package would be needed, too. > Yes. Grub is an issue - Grub2 is where all development happens now and > the Grub series that was on the 014 CD is completely unsupported, but > the installer relies on the configuration file used in the old series, > which doesn't work now. I think we may be best off using a patched > Grub 0.97, like the recipe that's in the store, but it is finicky, and > I'm not an expert on the subject. If anyone has any input it would be > helpful.
So, an option is basically to update the Installer to use the Grub2 syntax? Looks like something I could work on. -- -- Hisham http://hisham.hm/ - http://colorbleed.com.br/ _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
