On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Jag wrote: > On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, rpjday wrote: > > > > > just today, i decided to check out the kernel-BOOT rpm that > > comes with red hat, and the info on that rpm states that it > > includes a trimmed-down version of the kernel that's used > > on the installation boot disks only, since it doesn't have a > > lot of the standard features. > > > > fair enough, but what's the purpose of having that rpm around? > > what would you use it for? i've been playing with the boot images > > for a while now, and i've never had that RPM installed. what > > exactly would i do with it? > > > > i notice that that rpm comes with a truckload of pre-compiled > > modules, far more than one finds on any of the install disks. > > so what's the story behind this rpm? > > When you run the buildinstall script from anaconda-runtime, it builds > the install images by going through the rpms and pulling things out of > RPMS.. it pulls the X stuff out of the X rpms, uses the glibc rpm, and a > few others. It also needs a kernel, so the kernel-BOOT rpm is in the > tree so that when the images are being built, the script can pull the > kernel and whatever modules its configured to include out of the > kernel-BOOT rpm. ok, so you're saying that you *have* to have this RPM in the build tree for buildinstall to work properly, is that correct? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Eno River Technologies, Chapel Hill NC Unix, Linux and Open Source corporate training
