On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 02:55:49PM +0100, Ole Holm Nielsen wrote: > 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.
JFS utils should really just be updated to 1.1.5 (current stable). > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Sisuite-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > -- __________________________________________________________________ Sean Dague Mid-Hudson Valley sean at dague dot net Linux Users Group http://dague.net http://mhvlug.org There is no silver bullet. Plus, werewolves make better neighbors than zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down. __________________________________________________________________
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