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The following are possible documentation errors, bugs, etc I found while |
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rebuilding my gentoo system from scratch. I started using the portage |
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tree as of September 2 3:30am EST. I tried to remove the stuff that has |
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already been fixed from my list. |
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- There is no hdparm on the boot image. This was added to rc5 per my |
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request because sometimes I have to deal with systems with broken IDE |
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cdrom drives, etc |
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- pppd and possibly an easy config frontend like wvdial would be nice for |
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modem users (thankfully I'm not one of them ;) |
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- perhaps the build instructions need a comment about emerge --fetchonly |
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as a tip for those people without persistant network connections? |
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- Perhaps a text version of the build instructions should be placed in the |
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root directory of the ramdisk? (in the event you don't have it printed or |
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access to a second computer) |
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Comments on the build instructions: |
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In step 6, it says to do a "mount /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom -o ro -t |
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iso9660"... For some reason I didn't have a cdrom0 on my syste, I had a |
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cdrom2. Perhaps the instructions should mention this possibility? |
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In step 8, when you load dhcpcd unless you specifically loaded the |
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af_packet.o module the dhcpcd will complain about "socket: Address family |
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not supported by protocol". af_packet.o should either be build into the |
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kernel or the instructions should tell users to load it |
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In Step 10, it mentions you might want to wait on merging xfree86 until |
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you have a booting system... isn't xfree86 a core package now? |
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In Step 11, it says to do a "mv bzImage bzImage.orig" which doesn't work |
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for many reasons. I'd personally recommend telling users to do a "cp |
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arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-2.4.8-ac8"... also we need to make |
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sure to tell the user to copy over the System.map file (I think lsof and |
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klogd need it) I havn't read linux kernel makefiles lately but vanilla |
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kernel source on distros like Mandrake install stuff for you in /boot with |
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"make install" |
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Comments on new initscripts: |
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The older net.eth0 files, etc used to have a comment for the GTWAY line |
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that said "Comment out the following line if you don't want to config a |
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default gateway". I think we should put this in or us people with |
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multiple interfaces will wonder why we have multiple default gateways :) |
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A bunch of startup scripts are in baselayout package while the programs |
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associated with them are in seperate packages. Shouldn't they be with the |
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software package instead? (the sysklogd and samba init.d scripts are |
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examples of this) |
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Build Comment: |
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Having /usr/bin/emacs point to e3 after the initial emerge system can |
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cause ebuilds like xscreensaver to hang in their configure scripts (ex: |
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xscreensaver tests some lisp stuff using emacs) |
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There were a bunch of other issues but they have all been resolved either |
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already resolved on the list or by bugging the appropriate person... |
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Thanks all :) |
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Bruce A. Locke |
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blocke@××××××.org |
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