[Morphix-devel] 0.4-0c base & main/minimodules

[Alex de L. <ale...@xs...>]

Hey list,

Well, some people from the irc channel wanted me to bring the lists back to
life, so here is a short howto for building mainmodules and the new base. Part
of it was already on the website:

Information about the new base directories (/deb, /exec, /copy) can be found here:
http://am.xs4all.nl/morphix/Cdrom-README

Besides the problems with modules, i've also switched the base from using autofs
to supermount. For this to work correctly, you have to remove the symlinks
'/floppy' and '/cdrom' and replace them with directories.

Yes, your minimodules will work. However, the 0.4-0c base uses a new version of
loop that is incompatible with the previous versions. I'm still fine-tuning a
new base, but for those that are curious...

For the conversion from old to new mainmodule:
Make sure you have the (old) mainmodule unpacked in a directory (you can get the
old extract_compressed_fs from http://am.xs4all.nl/morphix/scripts/). Get the
latest cloop-utils from sid (or grab them from
http://developer.linuxtag.net/knoppix/). Then, build the module like usual, if
you want there is a module-builder script up on
http://am.xs4all.nl/morphix/scripts/module-builder2.pl

I still have to make the conversion easier, but it's not as hard as it looks.
However, a side effect is that minimodules won't load. Copy
http://am.xs4all.nl/morphix/loadmod-0.4-0c.sh over the loadmod.sh in
/morphix/loadmod.sh of the mainmodule and newly converted minimodules will work
with the new base/main combination. I'm beginning to convert all the current
modules over, and should have a new (full) release out within a few weeks. The
above trick will only work for this base release, the next ones will have a
minimodule-loading script in the base module instead of the mainmodule, like it
ought to have been.

If you don't want to convert modules yourself, you'll have to be patient until
the next release. This base was more a way to give people with customized
modules a chance to convert their modules and play around with the new features
of cloop 1.0. If you have further questions, poke me on IRC!

In summary:

1. replace /cdrom and /floppy with directories
2. replace /morphix/loadmod.sh with the one on http://am.xs4all.nl/morphix
3. compress the main/minimodule with the latest cloop/extract_compressed_fs in sid

Cheers,
Alex


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