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Well here is a little description of what panoramix needs to work in comparison
to the standard newt install.
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* CVS **************************************************************************
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Like all good free software, panoramix is in CVS :)
You can access it using:
% export CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@linux-mandrake.com:/home/cvs/cooker
% cvs login
% Passwd: cvs
% cvs checkout gi
This is only read-only access. If you want more, tell me (pixel@mandrakesoft.com)
Alas, all is not in CVS as a lot of things are binary files.
For the other things, take cooker-contrib others/src/gi.tar.bz2
Please note that redoing *all* the stuff is not for the faint of heart. I myself
sometimes wonder what the whole make does :-%
Instead, changing some .pm files is quite easy (nice interpreted language)
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* FILES ************************************************************************
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First he are the different things needed :
Mandrake/base/hdlist
table of rpm's headers.
! Need to be remade when Mandrake/RPMS changes !
Mandrake/base/depslist
for each packages, tell which package it depends on. Also contains the
size for some (obscure) bloody reasons.
! Need to be remade when Mandrake/RPMS changes !
Mandrake/base/compss
obsoletes comps. It store packages in different categories, a bit like
the %{GROUP} field
Mandrake/base/compssList
for each packages, it gives the appreciation for each type of user.
used to preselect packages
used to decide to show or hide packages.
Mandrake/mdkinst
live system used on certain installs. See ``Ramdisk or not'' below for
more.
Mandrake/base/mdkinst_stage2.gz
for the ramdisk.
live sytem in ext2 filesystem gzipped. See ``Ramdisk or not'' below for
more.
images/gi_*.img
boot images to use with panoramix. Use:
- gi_hd for hard-disk install
- gi_cdrom for cdrom install
- gi_network for ftp/nfs install
- gi_pcmcia for pcmcia install (see ``PCMCIA install'' below for more)
Some optional files :
Mandrake/base/depslist.html
html formatted depslist
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* po translation files *********************************************************
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Panoramix uses .po files for its translation. A script takes the different
strings out of the .pm files. It generates the panoramix.pot file which contains
all the english strings to translate.
To add a new language, you just have to add it to lang.pm (if it's not there
already) and put the .po in the perl-install/po directory (see ``Ramdisk or
not'' to know if you have to regenerate the mdkinst_stage2.gz)
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* PCMCIA install ***************************************************************
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If the media you use to install is a pcmcia device, you have two choices:
- use the gi_pcmcia boot disk
- use another boot disk and it will ask you a supplementary disk. Give it the
gi_pcmcia disk.
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* Ramdisk or not ***************************************************************
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The panoramix install is much bigger than the newt one. So the ramdisk which was
used is getting big, and costs a lot in memory
(eg: the mdkinst_stage2 is 14MB - 23/09/99)
| | newt | panoramix
|-------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------
| nfs | live | live
| ftp | ramdisk | ramdisk
| http | ramdisk | not yet :(
| hd | ramdisk | live if Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/bin/runinstall2 is a link,
| | | ramdisk otherwise
| cdrom | ramdisk | live if memory < 40MB, ramdisk otherwise
When i say live, it means that the install1 stage will *mount* the
Mandrake/mdkinst and use it that way.
The ramdisk is used in place of the live in some cases. This ramdisk is filled
with mdkinst_stage2.gz
For cdrom install, the ramdisk is used to speed up things (access time is quite
high on cdrom drives)
For pcmcia, it depends on the type of install.
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