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On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 10:28 -1000, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: |
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> > <rhetorical> |
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> > Why don't people trust that the guy who writes all this crap knows what |
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> > he's talking about? |
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> > </rhetorical> |
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> > |
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> > :P |
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> Your assertion is that it's completely obvous that a variable named |
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> "bootargs", that passes options to the kernel, would have other magical |
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> side effects? |
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No, my assertion is that when I provide a solution to someone's query |
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that I might know what I'm talking about. ;] |
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> > Normally, yes, it would only be good for kernel output, but as someone |
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> > else mentioned, you have livecd-functions.sh that re-writes the inittab. |
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> > Well, guess what triggers it? That's right, a "console=" option on the |
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> > command line. If you type (or via catalyst, add) console=something, |
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> > livecd-functions.sh (via functions.sh in baselayout) will interpret it |
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> > and modify inittab accordingly before we ever even hit runlevel 3, so it |
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> > starts a console on that serial line for login. |
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> Seriously, can you cut and paste that paragraph into the manual? |
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Ehh... What manual? |
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There's no manual for catalyst that is current. Also, I don't have the |
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time (or the desire) to document all of the idiosyncrasies of the |
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packages that make up a Gentoo LiveCD build. We use quite a few |
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packages that other people don't need to use on their own media. |
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Remember that everything written by Release Engineering is designed for |
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Release Engineering consumption. No guarantees are made to anyone else |
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on anything. We guarantee that it will build a release the way we want |
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it given a particular package set with specific versions, the exact ones |
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used by us for our builds. Also, realize that livecd-tools is *not* |
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catalyst and shouldn't be documented with catalyst. |
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> Thanks for your help. |
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You're quite welcome. This list is pretty much here just so people can |
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get help using catalyst, so feel free to ask anything that you need. |
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