From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9802 invoked by uid 1002); 6 Aug 2003 18:29:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 9331 invoked from network); 6 Aug 2003 18:29:02 -0000 From: Martin Schlemmer Reply-To: azarah@gentoo.org To: "Robin H.Johnson" Cc: Chris PeBenito , Gentoo-Dev In-Reply-To: <20030806053659.GA8865@cherenkov.orbis-terrarum.net> References: <1060098935.9166.16.camel@chris.pebenito.net> <20030805171215.GB23572@cherenkov.orbis-terrarum.net> <1060146731.1532.13.camel@chris.pebenito.net> <20030806053659.GA8865@cherenkov.orbis-terrarum.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-gXtqNUMaURA1X/qJVgHq" Message-Id: <1060194564.12477.9.camel@nosferatu.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Date: 06 Aug 2003 20:29:25 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] initrd X-Archives-Salt: ff5e3d78-03f0-41b6-8df9-f2934ac7f14b X-Archives-Hash: fc67ec6ddbb593fc59e7fa128d2b4cde --=-gXtqNUMaURA1X/qJVgHq Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 07:36, Robin H.Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:12:11AM -0500, Chris PeBenito wrote: > > Well I've been playing with initrd all day, and I came to the > > conclusion that its not worth the effort try to create an in-house > > mkinitrd (at least for me to do it). =20 > That's what led me to buying 3ware controllers myself. >=20 > > So I'll put it in as sys-apps/mkinitrd, and add an optional selinux > > patch to it. I pulled it myself from the rawhide src rpm I got from > > rpmfind.net. What is the preferred/correct way of handling this? > > Should I have the ebuild pull the src.rpm and do the rpm2targz magic > > in src_unpack, or should I just extract the tarball from it myself, > > and put it on distfiles? > The srpm goes into the SRC_URI, and there is an eclass that does all > the rpm2tgz magic for you iirc. This is (IMHO) not suitable for Rawhide, as it changes too much. Do what I did with elfutils, and rpm2targz it, tar -zxf that, and then just drop the tarball (only the source) in local-distfiles. Cheers, --=20 Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa --=-gXtqNUMaURA1X/qJVgHq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/MUkEqburzKaJYLYRAonKAJ4wwm+DikFXSoSI5N3NCVIAAR6qtwCcDiIt 3bcMBwx981XYI2bUKKEFR0s= =M8D0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-gXtqNUMaURA1X/qJVgHq--