At 06:49 16.07.2003 -0500, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
Erich Titl wrote:Mohan At 07:50 17.07.2003 +0530, S Mohan wrote:Why declare any package in syslinux.cfg, we might as well make lrpkg.cfg mandatory.I was going thro' the LEAF documentation and in many places, syslinux.cfg needs to be edited.
I've a suggestion to make this more user friendly.
Can we not convert this process and integrate it into the configuration menu under system -option 2. We can adopt the lrpkg.cfg file to be edited as the route so that initrd etc is not touched. Further, linuxrc can be hacked to load root, etc, modules and keyboard lrps are loaded and then packages from lrpkg.cfg are loaded. This would make sure the basic system loads. Another option is to declare mandatory packages in syslinux.cfg which loads first and then those declared in lrpkg.cfg are loaded.
I think this would be acceptable. When I created support for an lrpkg.cfg file (so I could change the packages loaded on my CD version of Dachstein without burring a new CD), I was highly interested in keeping backwards compatability.
This is very commendable, Bering on the other hand started with support for lrpkg.cfg.
I might also suggest allowing a slightly more complex form for the lrpkg.cfg file, which could put package names on seperate lines, and provide for adding blank lines / whitespace and comments.
Initrd.lrp is different anyway. My suggestion would be not to use the .lrp suffix on initrd which would lead to less confusion.
On the 2.2 and earlier kernel based systems that used Dave C's kernel patch, the initial ramdisk *WAS* the same format as the other .lrp files (a tar.gz file), and was created in the same way as all other packages by the backup scripts. I don't believe this is currently the case with Bering, (IIRC, the initrd file is gzipped, but not a tar file), so it probably shouldn't carry the .lrp extention.
I believe these modifications would not break the current behaviour and could be implemented off the main thread. Merging it back to the main thread of course is depending on Jacques' approval. Without that one is condemned to port it all the time.
Erich
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