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

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Raimo Koski wrote:

> 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.

Eh?  I thought they were eliminating kernel-source over at Fedora, since 
it really doesn't have anything you can't get out of the srpm.  Having to 
install the kernel source to get the headers would be a big 'ol PITA.

> 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.

You might want to nab the scripts I used and see what you can reuse from
them.  I manage to get WBEL3 to cleanly install without needing to use
anaconda and a partition using just rpm and some bash tricks.  Be advised
the script only works with the original 3.0, the respin needs a tweak or
two according to previous posts on this list.  (add laus to the first
batch of packages, etc)

> 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.

Guys like Dag are the ones who REALLY need packages building correctly in 
a chroot.  If I can ever get X working I'll probbaly start sticking to the 
dogfood and running WBEL on my home machine, eliminating this particular 
problem.... until I need to be supporting WBEL3 and WBEL4.  But Dag is 
supporting so many kernel versions he would need a pretty good stack of 
buildhosts if he had to build everything on a real host.

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