Re: [Architect-discuss] Re: [pocket-linux] System Architect Project is Moving Forward

[David Horton]

Broeisi Rast wrote:
> David,
>
> What's the idea about those recipes?
> Will they be executable scripts?...or just text scripts?
>
> I mean is it the idea that a user executes ./coreutils and it installs
> coreutils?
>
> Or are you planning to include some installer script?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Broeisi

My idea for the recipes is to provide a way to build binary packages 
from source code.  Take coreutils-5.0 as an example.  You can read the 
text of the recipe and it should give some idea of how to install 
coreutils.  You can also use it as an executable to automatically build 
coreutils and install it into the directory 
/var/tmp/staging/coreutils-5.0.  It does not install directly to the 
target media which is good, because then you can save it as a tar.gz 
archive like coreutils-5.0.i386.tar.gz.  Then this i386.tar.gz binary 
package can be installed on the target media.  The idea is that you can 
build a lot of i386.tar.gz archives ahead of time and save them for 
installing later.  Whith enough packages you could fill a CD-ROM and use 
it to install onto other sytems.  The installer script will come later. 
 For now the inistall can be done by mounting the target media and 
extracting packages with 'tar -zxf packagename.i386.tar.gz'.  Of course 
it needs a kernel, bootloader, etc., but it's a start.

Dave