Gentoo Archives: gentoo-catalyst

From: David Bryson <mutex@g.o>
To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Overwriting linuxrc
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 19:12:56
Message-Id: 20050525190251.GK13331@heliosphan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Overwriting linuxrc by Chris Gianelloni
1 On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 02:36:41PM -0400 or thereabouts, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2 > On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 10:38 -0700, David Bryson wrote:
3 > > naw, much better to put something in spec file like
4 > > livecd/linuxrc: <path to my linuxrc>
5 >
6 > So you don't actually have something like this already in the embedded
7 > target. That's really what I was getting at.
8 >
9 > > As andrew already mentioned it's a 'module' inside catalyst that
10 > > describes how to build a certain type of system from a spec file.
11 >
12 > Ehh... I'm the catalyst maintainer, so I know how it works, thanks.
13 >
14
15 wasn't directed at you, was directed at paul.
16
17 > > I actually implemented it as part of the 'kernel' arguments to the
18 > > spec file. My files look something like this:
19 >
20 > Right. So you didn't actually add an option anywhere in catalyst, you
21 > just worked around it. Your original email made it sound like there was
22 > already catalyst code to support this that just needed to be made
23 > available. There isn't. That was all I needed to know. =]
24 >
25
26 When I originally answered the email I misrepresented yes. I
27 remembered that I had done what he had asked and I figured I would
28 have done something smart link a livecd/linuxrc: command.
29 but it turns out i'm just lazy ;-)

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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Overwriting linuxrc Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>