Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Fixing 1.4x build system

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Heiko,

Thanks for the reply.

I already have the LFS build system you refer to installed. In fact I tried a
 completely new install/build on a different computer and it also failed. The
 problem is that doing an update of the source breaks the build! Not only did
 update_src download the "experimental" 3.0 kernel file, it (or make unpack)
 deleted the 2.6 kernel file from the lfssystem/data/build/src * directory.
 The 2.6 kernel file is no longer available at the main update source download
 site or any of the mirrors so there is no way to back out of the kernel
 "upgrade" which is why I was trying to find it in the CVS repository. Since
 is was never officially supported and irreversibly breaks the build shouldn't
 the 3.0 kernel file be removed from all the update source sites and replaced
 with the 2.6 kernel file so that it will build?

No, it's not a stupid question. I considered moving to 1.6 and if I was just
 starting out with DL I probably would have but:

1) If it ain’t broke ..., I've been using it for the last couple of years with
    no problems. All I wanted to do was make sure it was fully upgraded, make a
    few tweaks, and rebuild it with a minimum of changes (see 2).
2) I spent considerable time and effort generating sha256 check sums for ALL of
    the executables and the script to verify them every night. The LFS system
    used to build DL is not designed to generate an application optimized Linux
    so it creates LOTS of executables that are irrelevant for a firewall/router/
    server. I'd rather be safe than sorry so I created check sums for all of them
    and this was a very time consuming task that I'd rather not do again.
3) I really, really, really do not like GRUB 2. I can't figure out what problem
    it was supposed to fix (supposedly supporting other architectures was the
    main one but AFAIK it still only works with x86) and using/modifying GRUB
    "legacy" is something I already know how to do and is much easier for me.

Gary Stewart

 * There is an error in documentation on the DL web site for installing source
    from the CVS repository. It does not work as described because this line in
    Chapter 3, section 1.3.2.:

     Go into your LFS System directory (e.g. /usr/src/lfssystem)

    should be:

     Go into your LFS System data directory (e.g. /usr/src/lfssystem/data)

    Several years ago I contacted this forum about problems I was having building
    DL and I believe it was you that pointed out to me that DL will not build
    unless the build path is lfssystem/data/build not lfssystem/build as the first
    line describes. Luckily I remembered this when I did the new install.

---- Heiko Zuerker <he...@zu...> wrote: 
> Garry,
> 
> 1.4 only supports the 2.6 kernel. We might have been experimenting with 3.0
> and that's why you saw it download.
> 
> You get the correct LFS system from our FTP server:
> ftp://ftp.devil-linux.org/pub/devel/sources/lfssystem-for-DL-1.3.4_and_up/lf
> ssystem-SVN-20070314-cleaned.tar.bz2
> 
> Stupid question, why are you even messing around with 1.4? I would rather
> focus my energy on 1.6.
> 
> Best Regards
>   Heiko Zuerker
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gd...@tx... [mailto:gd...@tx...] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 2:26 PM
> To: dev...@li...
> Subject: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Fixing 1.4x build system
> 
> I recently needed to add an app to My Devil Linux 1.4x (previous last update
> and  build was ~ May 2011) and while checking the repository packages
> noticed that  there were several packages (last ~ Oct. 2011) I needed to
> update so I did an  update-src during which I noticed that it downloaded a
> 3.0 Linux kernel. After  unpacking I did a make menuconfig to add the app I
> needed as well as a couple  of other apps I decided I might need and dropped
> a few that I no longer needed  and then through the entire configuration
> menu. When I got to the menu entry to  select the kernel revision it only
> had an entry for a 2.6 kernel. I went ahead  and did a "make prepare build
> install iso dist" which failed in prepare because  it failed to find a (2.6)
> kernel.
> 
> I then did a CVS update using cvs update -d -P which did not produce any
> error  messages and then attempted to build it again:
> 
>  root:/data/build# make prepare build install iso dist
>  mount: proc already mounted
>  mount: none already mounted or /sys busy
>  mount: according to mtab, none is already mounted on /sys
>  make: Entering directory `/data/build'
>  prepare: prepare                      log:
> /data/build/tmp/LOGS/prepare/prepare
>  make: *** [prepare] Error 1
>  make: Leaving directory `/data/build'
>  make: *** [prepare] Error 1
> 
>  root:/data/build# cat tmp/LOGS/prepare/prepare  ERROR  The lfssystem you're
> using is not correct  Please download version 1.1
> 
> I tried to list the projects in the sourceforge repository to see if there
> were  separate repositories for the 1.4 and 1.6 versions but the server does
> not  support the ls command. I also tried checkout -c and it appeared to
> show two  different sets of the same directories (1.4, 1.6 ?) but I have no
> idea how to  differentiate between them.
> 
> How do fix or I re-install a fully updated DL 1.4 build environment ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gary Stewart
> 
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