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diff --git a/docs/HACKING b/docs/HACKING deleted file mode 100644 index ca3704d4a..000000000 --- a/docs/HACKING +++ /dev/null @@ -1,143 +0,0 @@ --=-=-- -DrakX is a very big project, and it needs special setups to work. -The purpose of this file is to explain how you can setup your box to make it -compile and run. --=-=-- - -Beware, don't try this on a production machine with important data. - - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Sources installation: - -First grab the gi.tar.bz2 archive and untar it in your home directory, for -example from DrakX-*.src.rpm on your Mandrake Linux distribution. - -Fix a few things: -% find gi -name "*/CVS/root/*" | xargs perl -pi -e 's/prigaux/anoncvs/' - -Then, log yourself into the cvs: -% export CVS_RSH=ssh -% export CVSROOT=:ext:anoncvs@cvs.mandrakesoft.com:/cooker -% cvs checkout gi - (the passwd is: 'cvs') - -And update the gi package: -% cvs update -P -d gi - - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Preparing the compilation process: - -(1) target directory - -Create a top level directory called /export and give write permissions to -the user/group that will be compiling DrakX. It is also suggested that you -copy a recent Mandrake Linux CD in there. (You don't have to put have all -the RPMS...) ; you'll need roughly 1.5 Gbytes for a full install. (It is -possible to not have a copy of Mandrake Linux there, if all you desire is to -compile gi) - - -(2) support directories - -You will need to create a top level /RPMS directory. This directory needs -to be populated with the following RPMS: -locales-ja locales-ko locales-zh - -GI needs to be informed about which kernel(s) is/are to be used. -Most of the time, no manual install is needed. Just be sure to -have the BOOT kernel(s) in /RPMS, and typing make later on will -extract the package(s) and build stuff from it. - -FYI, for each kernel, directories will be populated as follows: - -gi/kernel/all.kernels/2.6.0 - containing all files from the said kernel RPM package - -gi/kernel/all.modules/2.6.0 - containing all modules, and special files containing - modules for stage1 (*.mar) - -gi/kernel/all.modules/ - containing a special file containing modules for stage1 - (*.cz*) - -Note: the modules must not be in compressed form (*.gz *.bz2 etc) - - -(3) required rpm packages - -You need quite a number of rpm packages installed on your system -to build gi properly. Roughly: - -emacs gcc make glibc-devel glibc-static-devel perl-devel XFree86 -XFree86-FBDev XFree86-VGA16 XFree86-devel libglib-devel -libgtk+-devel perl-GTK ldetect ldetect-devel ldetect-lst -ldetect-lst-devel libslang-devel libnewt-devel e2fsprogs -libext2fs2-devel dosfstools rpm-devel rpmtools libbzip2_1 -libbzip2_1-devel libncurses5 libncurses5-devel setserial telnet -parted raidtools pciutils mt-st gpart reiserfsprogs jfsprogs -xfsprogs extipl pcmcia-cs gettext perl-Gtk2 perl-Glib ash imlib -fb2png ntfsprogs lm_sensors galaxy-gnome perl-PerlIO-gzip brltty -lvm2 mkcd perl-URPM glibc-i18ndata - -You may need a few others I forgot to mention. If the compilation fails, try -to understand the message and install any necessary remaining package. - - -(4) - -NEVER build or run Drakx as root. Install sudo and setup the following -permissions in /etc/sudoers: - -user ALL=(root) -NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/patch,NOPASSWD:/bin/rpm,NOPASSWD:/bin/mount,NOPASSWD:/bin/cp,NOPASSWD:/bin/umount,NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/install,NOPASSWD:/bin/rm,NOPASSWD:/bin/mv,NOPASSWD:/bin/tar,NOPASSWD:/bin/cpio,NOPASSWD:/bin/chown,NOPASSWD:/bin/mkdir,NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/strip,NOPASSWD:/bin/mknod - - -(5) - -pray - -[gc@obiwan ~/cvs/gi] make - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -The comments written with #- are automatically stripped out at install. - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -testing all: - - go to the perl-install directory and execute ./install2 --test - - NEVER execute DrakX as root! You might need to allow all users - to read the block devices of your hard-disks, though (chmod a+w - /dev/hda* for example). - - - -Here is how I (dams) made it work on my computer. -------------------------------------------------- - -- get the sources -- install the librairies needed included newt-devel gtk+-devel popt-devel popt gtk-engines -- cd path/to/gi -- make -- mkdir /usr/share/gtk -- ln -s path/to/gi/perl-install/share/themes /usr/share/gtk -- ln -s path/to/gi/perl-install/share/step-* /usr/share -- ln -s path/to/gi/perl-install/share/help.xpm /usr/share -- ln -s path/to/gi/perl-install/share/isdn* /etc/sysconfdir/network-scripts -- have a cd architecture linked on /export -- ln -s /export /tmp/rhimage -- export PERL_INSTALL_TEST=1 -- cd path/to/gi/perl-install -- gendistrib --noclean --distrib /export -- ./install2 in root (dangerous) or chmod a+r /dev/hd* and ./install2 in user - - - -address all bugreports to dave@null.com - -info has been added by sunny@opencurve.org |