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
> 
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