Re: [rock-user] Install report for an IBM Thinkpad 760EL with i486 pkgs from 5th April 05

On Wednesday 13 April 2005 14:48, Clifford Wolf wrote:
> Hi Raphael,
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:45:52AM +0200, Raphael Langerhorst wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
> nice to see you back on our lists after ~1 year silence..

Hi Clifford,

yeah, it's been a while :) but I never forgot about ROCK, in terms of 
Linux it's by far the best distribution for my needs, I really like 
it.

>
> > chrooted into it, set the root password ... or tried to. All
> > the /lib/libpam* shared objects had the .so and .so.0.77
> > extensions, but no .so.0 . I had to actually symlink the so.0 as
> > well (I think three of them) to get PAM to work!! I experienced
> > THIS issue previously when installing the packages manually
> > (without 2nd stage install system). YOU SHOULD PROVIDE A FIX FOR
> > THAT (provide the additional symlinks in the PAM pkg).
>
> That symlink (as many other too) is created by 'ldconfig'. Our
> install scripts execute ldconfig. But this doesn't happen
> automatically when installing using 'mine' directly...

ah... I nice to know :)

>
> I'll think about a nice solution to also add files created by
> ldconfig to the package flist. But this is non-trivial because
> ldconfig is a static binary..
>
> > [..] I also run the daily cron routine... [..]
>
> This is one of the places where 'ldconfig' is executed.

hmm... the whole system can start up and you can log in with just the 
links for the pam libraries. Then you can run stone and cron and 
everything anyway. So maybe it would be just fine to add the symlinks 
for "just" the pam package and recommend in the install docs that 
cron should be run after installation - which creates all the 
symlinks of the other libs as well.

>
> <Private Question>
> Are you still at Linuxwochen Linz on Friday, when I'm doing my
> talk about compiler design there?
> </Private Question>

<Private Answer>
Very sadly not, I already saw that you are doing this talk, but I'll 
be in ... the Czech Republik (Tschechien) on Friday and Saturday. So 
tomorrow is the last day I'll be there (and the first as well, since 
today I couldn't come either). I would have liked to meet you, but in 
case you're there tomorrow we'll see each other (but if you've no 
time, it's ok, we will certainly meet on some events). By the way, in 
case we see each other I really have to give you a crash course about 
BSD system management (full system updates, ports/package 
management, ..., there's a lot to learn from (I assume).
</Private Answer>


>
> yours,
>  - clifford
>
> --
[snip geek code]
>
> Pascal /n./ A programming language named after a man who would turn
> over in his grave if he knew about it.

Regards,
-- 
Raphael Langerhorst, JID: [email protected]
G System, The Evolving Universe - http://www.g-system.at