* Re: [gentoo-dev] initrd
@ 2003-08-06 18:29 99% ` Martin Schlemmer
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From: Martin Schlemmer @ 2003-08-06 18:29 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Robin H.Johnson; +Cc: Chris PeBenito, Gentoo-Dev
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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).
> That's what led me to buying 3ware controllers myself.
>
> > 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,
--
Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa
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