Re: [uml-user] newbie ? on rpm stuff

[Ronald P. <ron...@un...>]

You are correct, wrong list.  I do not have the disc rpms, I have iso,
so I need to still download the rpms.  I am downloading everything and
trying it tonight.  Ill see what happens.  Thanks alot.

Ron


On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 00:06, Roger Binns wrote:
> > OK, I am trying to use umlbuilder and I am sort of confused still.
> 
> You should post UML Builder issues to the UML Builder mailing
> lists.  Details are at http://umlbuilder.sourceforge.net/contacts.shtml
> 
> > It
> > says you need to have a directory of RPMs where it can look to build
> > your distro or something like that.
> 
> That is correct.  UML Builder can't do the install directly from the
> distro CDs (it is way too complicated and error prone).  Consequently
> it needs all the RPMs in one directory.  You can either copy them
> off the CDs, or download them.
> 
> > Where do you download these rpms?  Im doing RH8 for now and have gone to
> > a mirror
> > 
> > ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/redhat/8.0/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/
> 
> That looks like all of them.  You can use wget to grab all of them,
> although it will be about 1.8GB of stuff, so you'll probably want
> to get them via an alternative means.
> 
> > Is this what you mean by getting the rpms? 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Do I need them all, what is the minimum?
> 
> If you have the CDs, it is easiest to grab them all.  If you really
> want a minimum set, you'll need to look in 
> /usr/lib/uml/umlbuilder/profiles/Redhat8.0.p
> and note which ones are needed for whichever modules you want.
> You'll actually need more than that, since some of those will
> have dependencies on others.  It will take a fair amount of
> trial and error.
> 
> >  Is anything shared with the host?
> 
> No, because that is the way that UML works.  Although if your host
> is Redhat 8, then you will have the CDs and hence the RPMs.
> 
> If you want to 'reuse' the host kernel and software, a solution
> like http://www.freevsd.org/ may suit you better.
> 
> > I promise when I know what I am doing Ill write a book for this to fend
> > off people like myself.
> 
> I'd love to update the UML Builder documentation to make things
> clearer!  Please email me the bits you think can be improved.
> 
> Roger
>