Hello, Venkat wrote: > hi, > i am building a custom distro based on redhat.Now i have hacked up > anaconda and made some changes to it.I have a few doubts. > > What i did is i mounted stage2.img and hjacked around the anaconda and > anaconda-runtime directorues. That is one way. One way would be doing it the way (IMHO) RedHat does. They have all of binary rpms (including modified anaconda/anaconda-runtime) , There are some scripts that help you to rebuild install images. (More detail can be found on archives for this mailing list, or could be found after some googling). > > 1. Now is it just enough to leave the .py files > in anaconda directory as it is and rebuild stage2.img or do i need to > compile them. > 2. Also if i have to leave the .py files as it is then what do i do with the > existing .pyc files? If you modify one file or two, you may erase .pyc file, then python would use the .py file when asked by other files/modules. > > 3.Now if i need to compile the files in anaconda directory how do i do > it?it is really not possible to compile each of the files > manually..right??so is there any better way to do it.I tried using > compileall module but it is giving me some errors.Moreoever in my existing > redhat system i had installed anaconda and anaconda-runtime packages and i > freshly compiled them using compileall module and it still gives me > errors.could i know why?? you may be missing some packages that are required for building anaconda. As I said before, first build your modifications as patches to oringinal tarball: bash# rpm -bp anaconda-<version>.src.rpm Then, go into your rpm build place (/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/) and copy it to, say, anaconda-orig-<version> so you could maintain an untouched hierarchy. Modify the files, create a patch that can convert anaconda-orig to anaconda. Add it to your anaconda.spec file and rebuild it. > > > oops!!sorry for a really long mail.Your help is invaluable. > > regards > venkat. > cheers, Masoud Sharbiani
