Problem: Building Systemimager 3.0.1 source on a Redhat RHEL 3.0 box. It turns out that a number of Redhat patches are required for some of the older packages in SI 3.0.1.
Developers: Would you kindly consider including the Redhat patches in SI 3.0.1 ?
The details:
1. Patches for dosfstools: Redhat has three patches for dosfstools-2.8 which may be obtained by installing the Fedora source RPM dosfstools-2.8-11.src.rpm from http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/SRPMS/ The patch files dosfstools-2.8-autofat32.patch, dosfstools-2.8-endian.patch, dosfstools-2.8-loopsize.patch should be copied to the systemimager-3.0.1/patches directory. Edit each patch file to remove the directory prefixes "dosfstools-2.8/" so that SI's "patch -p0" commands will work. The rules file make.d/dosfstools.rul should be copied from SI 3.2 or obtained from http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/systemimager/systemimager/make.d/dosfstools.rul Alternatively, one can manually patch the dosfstools-2.8 tar-ball and drop it into the src/ directory.
2. Patch for jfstools:
Redhat 9 has a patch jfsutils-1.0.17 which may be obtained by
installing the source RPM jfsutils-1.0.17-6.src.rpm from a mirror,
for example: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/SRPMS/
The file jfsutils-1.0.17-errno.patch should also be copied
to SI. However, I had to use "patch -p1 -F 3" manually in order to
install the patch, so I'm unsure how to incorporate it into the
SI patch system.
3. Patch for uClibc: Systemimager 3.2 has a patch uclibc.10gcc3_3_buildfixes.patch which should also be copied to the systemimager-3.0.1/patches directory. The patch can be extracted from the SI 3.2 sources, or be obtained from http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/systemimager/systemimager/initrd_source/patches/
With the above patches I was able to do "make binaries" and "make install_binaries" successfully on a RHEL 3.0 box.
Ole Holm Nielsen Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark
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