Re: [rock-user] Installation report drock 2.0.1 rev. 2585 (incoming)

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 02:11:08AM +0200, "Alex B?r" wrote:

> That brings me to another question/idea. Old boxes aren't well suited for
> source-based operating systems. Compiling from sources takes quite a long
> time even on modern systems, it's therefore not really an option on a K6-200
> class PC. On the other hand, these systems have to be kept up-to-date,
> nevertheless; at least, there must be patches and/or updates for security
> issues. But for these older machines binary packages would be the preferred
> way to keep them up-to-date.
> 
> So: Do you have plans to provide pre-built binary install packages for ROCK
> as an alternative to source packages?

ROCK Linux isn't a source based distribution - it is a distribution built
kit. That means it is a toolchain for building binary distributions from
source.

> <snip>
> Creating initrd data:
> -> Create linuxrc binary.
> ./scripts/Build-Target: line 8: diet: command not found
> ./scripts/Build-Target: line 9: diet: command not found
> ./scripts/Build-Target: line 10: diet: command not found
> ./scripts/Build-Target: line 14: diet: command not found
> /home/alex/ROCK/trunk/build/bootdisk-2.1.0-DEV-x86-bootdisk/ROCK/logs/*.log:
> No such file or directory
> </snip>
> 
> Maybe that's because Slack has no mkinitrd, but I don't know.

no. that's because slack doesn't have dietlibc installed. building the
bootdisk still needs a dietlibc on the build host - this is a design bug
which will be solved by the "target finish-hook" which is on our todo list.

yours,
 - clifford

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