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The following were included with a message that I e-mailed directly to Daniel Robbins and he asked me to post. |
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BUG report in order of (percieved) importance (Gentoo 1.0rc3 ISO image). |
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1. the modprobe line in the modules init file in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ does not |
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parse the entire line which it should do especially for the alsa-sound |
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module. I fixed the line that reads "modprobe ${1}" to read "modprobe ${*}" |
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and that seems to have fixed it for me; my alsa-sound modules load now. |
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** this one has already been fixed in the CVS tree by Daniel according to his response. |
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2. dependency check in the alsa-libs package requires kernel >2.4.0-test11 |
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which will obviously not work with the recommended and included configuration. |
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3. the automount daemon dies as soon as it is loaded. |
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the error message from /var/log/daemon.log is: |
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"lookup(file):cannot open parse modules sun (/usr/lib/autofs//parse_sun.so: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory)" |
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* I was unable to locate the parse_sun.so file anywhere on my system. |
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* the autofs4 daemon requires the alias "alias autofs autofs4" to be in the modules.conf according to Jeremy Fitzhardings' readme in the autofs download page (see http://www.goop.org/~jeremy/autofs ). However inserting the alias did not fix the above problem for me assuming for some strange reason that the missing file complaint was misguided. There is a newer daemon package version autofs-4.0.0pre9.tar.gz in the above directory which I hope to try out. |
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Question about Portage, et al. |
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After having read through some comparisons of the various software management options here http://kitenet.net/~joey/pkg-comp/ , here http://vip.hpnc.com/~cbbrowne/linuxsysconfig.html and finally in the freshmeat article I feel like I have at least a general idea of where Portage is going. I have a couple of questions I am hoping someone in this list would answer for me |
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* I have a slow dialup connection and I often download the software I need at work where I have a T1 and either carry it home on a Syquest 200Mb cartridge or burn a CD for myself there (which is how I got Gentoo in the first place). I'm not sure I am ever going to want to rsync my distro because I don't see a way of determining how long it's going to take without running an audit of my system. Any suggestions? |
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* What is the difference between Portage and e-build? Where does one begin and the other start? I'm familiar with Daniel's article that was posted on IBM about the e-build system (http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/bash3.html) |
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* Perhaps I'm thinking in Microsoft mode here. My question is, is there an uninstall script ready now for ebuild? The autofs included with rc3 seems to be missing the pars_sun.so library file so I wanted to uninstall it and install the later version from the source code. I could list the files from the tbz2 file and do it by hand or I've even considered writing a script to do it for me but this seems to be a logical piece of the puzzle that is missing. (is that why this is called a beta release? B ) |
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>From the Digest Jerry A! <jerry@×××××××.org> wrote: |
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>Can we please have pcmcia support in the default kernel? It's a real |
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>pain having to install off the CD and then build a new kernel, put it on |
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>floppy and then move to that to the machine in question. It'll be a |
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>bigger pain if that laptop ends up being my only working machine. 8( |
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Unless you're thinking of modules, I think it would be better to include a few kernel variations and the dd command in the boot cd. I thought it was odd that this was omitted anyways. I had to create a boot disk in Windows using rawrite. (well actually, I learned later that I really was able to install grub from the grub prompt on the CD. Since I had never used GRUB and always LILO, this business was all new to me then.) |
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Thomas Flavel <thomasfl@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>Glad to see there's finally a mailing list, now I can bug everyone and |
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>not just Daniel personally... ;) |
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Ditto for me. |
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>Hmm, I recall asking if rc3 could have gcc and the kernel source |
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>available from the boot cd - I see the kernel source code is in the |
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>packages directory, but I think there may have been a |
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>mis-communication... |
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Actually I may be looking in the wrong place, but all that I found in /usr/src/linux were the kernel headers which were installed with sys.tbz2 - but no source code. Actually, I did not find source code ANYWHERE which surprised me given the idea behind this distro to roll your own. Or perhaps I misunderstood and the idea is to UPDATE with source code?? (See my first question) Or perhaps, even worse, I'm more of a newbie than I think. |
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>I actually meant that gcc be executable from boot.img so that a kernel can be compiled directly from the boot cd |
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>(onto ramfs presumably, unless you mount anything else) without having to install anything to a hard disk - I for one would find >this very useful, and I'm surprised I haven't seen any other distros do this. |
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This sounds like a logical extension of the Portage system and a good idea to me, too. |
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Nuff said, perhaps too much. |
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Justin Vander Ziel |
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mailto:zielot@××××××××××.com |