Re: [uml-user] UML SRPM

[John M. <jma...@ya...>]

> You may also wish to consider 
> http://umlbuilder.sourceforge.net/umlcustom.shtml
> 
> It tries to be very user friendly, in particular
> downloading
> the necessary files if they aren't in the sources
> directory.
> It also helps solve the issues with updating your
> configs
> when the next release of UML comes out.

Oh, yeah, that's pretty nifty!  I'm doing the same
thing, except I cheated a bit.  I've got a Makefile
that generates the RPMs for me.  There's a
Makefile.inc where I put in the versions that I want,
and the Makefile does the rest, downloading any
missing pieces, putting things in /usr/src/redhat,
etc.  I selfishly kept the Makefiles for myself and
didn't put them in the tarball on the website.

> If you'd like to email me off list, we can try to
> merge
> the two to produce something even more useful.

Sure.  I'll check your code out more carefully and
email you later.

> > I've been installing the uml-kernel package with
> > umlbuilder, but doing that requires a few hacks to
> the
> > umlbuilder code so that it doesn't install the
> modules
> > tarball into the image. 
> 
> I'll take the patch!

Nah, I just remove the lines mentioning modules.tar
from, err, uml_mkdistro.py and uml_stage2install.py, I
think.  Nothing interesting.

> > In my opinion, that stuff
> > shouldn't be hardwired in there anyway!
> 
> The reason UML Builder is hardwired the way it is 
> (copy /usr/lib/uml/modules.tar) is because that is
> the only 
> anyone has been commonly distributing UML.

Yeah, I know.  Maybe if we get our RPMs to do the
right thing, eg. generate the tarball AND a uml-kernel
rpm, then maybe that anyone would adopt it!

Actually, I like umlbuilder very much as it is, except
that it's written in python, which I don't understand
well enough to really hack on.  Aargh!  Thank you,
though, for making such a useful tool, I don't know
what I'd do without it.  Well, actually I do, but it
involves having an extra rack of old PCs and a pile of
kickstart floppies to run my tests with!  :)

      John

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