> --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Thu, 03 Jan 2002, Bob Tanner wrote: > > > Where can I find documentation for the anaconda-runtime rpm? > >=20 > > In particular, what do all the files do /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime. > > The best documentation is to just look at the files and see what they > do. A lot of them are scripts called by other scripts in there. The > most important two are buildinstall which takes an RPM tree and builds > all the anaconda boot and stage2 images for it, as well as doing stuff > like genhdlist. The other is splitdistro which splits a big install > root into two directory trees, one for each disc, for burning purposes. Not very practical for those without a good understanding of C, Python *AND* bash. Frankly, I think if some Red Hatter put together some basic documentation, the effort would be repaid the next time a new Red Hatter had to learn the system. I've looked at the scripts etc (did so before joining this list). Python's a big mystery to me, I have hardly any idea what's going on. My C is a little better, but my examination of genhdlist has revealed a bug (which I found before looking at the code) but next to no light on what its argments mean. I especially have not been able to discover what format the file argument to --fileorder is (other than strings). As for comments, the only multiline comments in the entire program are where there's a group of lines commented out. The bug? [summer@numbat summer]$ /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --help genhdlist: bad argument --help: unknown option [summer@numbat summer]$ There's a usage() function in the program, it's called in at least one place: [summer@numbat summer]$ /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist --fileorder fred genhdlist: genhdlist [--withnumbers] [--fileorder <path>] [--hdlist <path>] <paths>+ [summer@numbat summer]$ Not that it actually tells me how to feed it. I've gone through a good deal of anaconda-list and kickstart-list and so far have no clues on how to run genhdlist or splitdistro. buildinstall I can manage, at least in the simple case. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.
