-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas J. Hamman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 9:40 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: [newbie] Way to make an updated 6.0 CD?
Technically you could, yes. You'd just remove the packages you're replacing
from Mandrake/RPMS, put the newer packages you want to use in Mandrake/RPMS,
and then from the base of the distribution tree run:
./misc/genhdlist .
To update the hdlist with the new packages.
That's what I did when I made an updated M6.0 CD (with the updates
specifically
for 6.0). I can foresee you possibly having dependency problems when trying
to
mix 6.1 packages in, though; it's quite likely that there are slightly newer
versions for some libraries (like gtk, qt, etc.) in 6.1 that some packages
in
6.1 depend on, so you would need to add them too (and might as well toss in
the
newer development packages while you're at it). But THEN you MIGHT (or
might
not, your guess is as good as mine) break some of the 6.0 packages that are
linked with slightly older libraries from 6.0.
If you haven't actually tried 6.1 yet, I'd suggest giving it a try. It
works
great for me, and my impression of it is that it's less buggy than 6.0.
There
were some updates for 6.0 that ya just HAD to get, but I didn't even bother
getting the 6.1 updates until I was burning a CD for a friend and figured I
might as well put the existing updates on it.
> Secondly, once I get this ready, can it be burnt in *GAK*
> Windows, or do I actually need to figure out XCDroast?
As far as I know, burning in Windows should be fine. Though I don't know if
Windows burning programs allow you to use Rock Ridge extensions? I'd think
you
would want a Linux CD burned with Rock Ridge extensions (it's like the Linux
version of Windows' Joliet).
-Tom
Okay, so I copy the contents of the CD to a partition, run
/misc/src/.genhdlist
so that it updates a file somewhere, then burn the whole mess back onto a
CD?
Truly uninformed,
Mark
