Re: [WBEL-devel] LVM version 1.0.8-5 broken

John Morris wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Raimo Koski wrote:
> 
> 
>>The real solution is to add more options to setarch.
> 
> 
> Not really.  The correct way to determine the kernel version to build for
> would be to look at the kernel-headers package version if building
> packages in a chrooted environment is the preferred way, and I think it
> is.  (The alternative being racks of seperate machines or user-mode linux
> for sites trying to support diverse distributions, chroot is far easier.)

Gfs does that (kernel-source, kernel-headers no longer exists), but I 
think it is the only one from RH. Dag has several kernel module packages 
and I think they are similar.
I agree on chroot, but you should do full install on a separate 
partition, boot it to save at least env vars before copying it to subdir 
on a larger partition. For example QTDIR=/usr/lib64/qt-3.1 on x86_64 
will cause trouble when building KDE apps for x86. There might be other 
gotchas and I intend to do some full builds and compare them before 
relying on chrooted build environments. Dag has made about the same 
mistakes as you and generally he and you may have good results, but 
building a whole distribution should be on a more stable base.

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