From 091bc3cf434efd6a8eddf1d737a905bea56290ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pascal Rigaux Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 07:49:20 +0000 Subject: get rid of old obsolete doc. to build use rpmbuild (or bm) on packages drakx-installer-binaries, drakx-installer-images and drakx-installer-stage2 --- docs/HACKING | 126 ----------------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 126 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 docs/HACKING (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/HACKING b/docs/HACKING deleted file mode 100644 index cf6d2e3b6..000000000 --- a/docs/HACKING +++ /dev/null @@ -1,126 +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 Mandrakelinux 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 Mandrakelinux 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 Mandrakelinux 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 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 - special files containing - - vmlinuz - - modules.dep, modules.alias, modules for stage1 (*.tar) - - -(3) required rpm packages - -You need quite a number of rpm packages installed on your system -to build gi properly. You should install this package to pull the -requirements: - task-drakx-devel - -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 --testing - -  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 -- cgit v1.2.1