I was looking at making configuration easy. That was the reason to suggest editing lrpkg.cfg from the LEAF system menu and the backup process saving this file. However, to make sure root, etc and other mandatory packages are not removed by mistake causing the system to crash, I'd suggested that the mandatory packages be loaded by linuxrc. Another option could be to load declarations from syslinux.cfg and then load those defined in lrpkg.cfg (not mutually exclusive as is the case today). This way, we still achieve what we want.
I think the current packaging system is ok. Utilities like apt-get will check dependencies etc - overhead of which may be high for LEAF. Gurus to comment. I remember Ray's post on this also suggesting apt-get may be an overkill. Mohan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of eric wolzak Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 8:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Erich Titl Subject: Re: [leaf-devel] LEAF configuration process/frontend Hallo Erich this is always the problem in answering different people at once ;) I agree LRP=content can be put in a different file now allready. If LRP= is empty or not is not important if lrpkg.cfg exists. The optional configuration files aren't so good documented yet. ( will work on that :) ) The main reason for my post was to state that -syslinux.cfg cannot be completely removed. (yet.) - before we start adapting linuxrc, we should be sure what we want, to prevent having different versions of this "important file" being used Regards Eric Wolzak member of the bering Crew -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Erich Titl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Datum: Donnerstag, 17. Juli 2003 16:32 Betreff: Re: [leaf-devel] LEAF configuration process/frontend Eric At 15:27 17.07.2003 +0200, eric wolzak wrote: >Hello Mohan, Erich, Charles and other > >The "early package " system can be changed ofcourse, but don't forget that >the syslinux.cfg brings more information than just >what packages to load. >It defines the boot and Package load medium. >System size and so on. >The actual linuxrc (also under Bering) is so made that it still is backward >compatible but with the options Charles introduced to override the >syslinux.cfg settings with a file on the boot medium for package loading >etc. > >one suggestion was something like: >can't we "always load root,etc, lib" and indicate only the rest. My suggestion was to leave the system as is but leaving the LRP= string in syslinux.cfg empty (if necessary at all) and use lrpkg.cfg mandatory for the package definition. I believe this is more of a documentation issue than anything else because this is possible anyway right now. Concerning the other parameters in syslinux.cfg, e.g. boot media, floppy switch, serial line Console e.t.c. this was not addressed here and leaves space for more discussion. Erich THINK Püntenstrasse 39 8143 Stallikon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: BC9A 25BC 3954 3BC8 C024 8D8A B7D4 FF9D 05B8 0A16 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
