[cooker-amd64] Re: RE: Rather dismal review of 9.2 for AMD64,mentioning 2.4 is depreciated for AMD64

[Duncan]

Greg Barton posted <20040218171919.89370.qmail@web80605.mail.yahoo.com>,
excerpted below,  on Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:19:19 -0800:

> 
> --- Rui Pimenta <rpimenta@runbox.com> wrote:
>> Do you think you can create distro files and share
>> it??
> 
> I second the motion. :)

Well, not really.  I've yet to really get into packaging, but what "it"
from my post are you referring to, exactly?

Pretty much everything, with the exclusion of the kernel and my
newsreader, PAN, but definitely INCLUDING the release package I mentioned
(which basically just changes the welcome message), is from the public Mdk
cooker mirrors -- the ones that mirror the AMD64 stuff, tho I DID have to
rpm --rebuild a couple packages I needed from the SRPMs.  I supposed I
might do something with those.

PAN I compile from tarball, because the Mdk version has spell check
disabled  because it's "to hard to switch spell-checked languages."  Not
really, as all you do is change a couple environmental variables and
restart PAN, but I guess Mdk wants a GUI method.  It doesn't bother me,
tho, since I only do English anyway, so I do the tarball thing and get
spell-check (plus don't have to worry about waiting for an RPM after a
new version announcement).

The kernel.. I'm afraid I have it configured for my machine, so the
package wouldn't do a lot of good unless you had the same mobo, wanted
SMP, and were running Reiserfs.  (I have ReiserFS compiled directly into
the kernel, since that's my fs of choice, so I can avoid an initrd.)

However, it's the standard generally latest release or RC of the 2.6
series from kernel.org, and I'd be glad to help anyone needing pointers as
to how to configure and compile their own, and could even supply a few
scripts I've whipped up to simplify the process for me. I'll agree, to
the uninitiated, all the options available in a typical make menuconfig
are definitely bewildering, and it takes some time and experimentation to
get the options right for one's own system, even with the help provided
for most options. Still, it's not impossible, as I did it even before I
had Linux fully set up to my liking, within the first three months of
switching from MSWormOS, and while I was still booting to MSWormOS to run
OE for mail and news!  If I could do it at that point, someone having
played Linux systems admin on their own systems for awhile should be able
to do it far easier.

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