On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Lucas C. Villa Real <luca...@gobolinux.org> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Hisham <hisham...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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. > > Can you take a look at the ConfigTools code base to see if that's not > checked in yet? I'm sure I've implemented that before.. I'll take a > look at my local copy of the tree when I get home and will let you > know if I have any pending commits related to that.
The trunk seems to contain no GRUB2-related code; just the old menu generator for Grub 0.9x: http://svn.gobolinux.org/tools/trunk/ConfigTools/bin/GenGrubMenu -- -- 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
