From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 15 9:30:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (ha1.rdc1.tn.home.com [24.2.7.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D74A7154ED for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 09:30:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dakuntz@home.com) Received: from windows ([24.2.16.41]) by mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19991215173029.POSJ17996.mail.rdc1.tn.home.com@windows>; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 09:30:29 -0800 Message-ID: <00ab01bf4722$58108100$29100218@micronetinfo.com> From: "Douglas Kuntz" To: "Patrick Bihan-Faou" , References: <3857AC6D.9DDA410B@heartland.ab.ca> <19991215160805.89BAC15033@hub.freebsd.org> <003a01bf471e$16185e70$040aa8c0@local.mindstep.com> Subject: Re: Kernel config utility Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 12:32:21 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.3825.400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.3825.400 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That script(scripts) is part of the Kernel, and not Redhat specific. It has 3 options, too.. make config which is text only (ie: do you want xyz? (yes/no)), make menuconfig (uses python I think), and make xconfig, so it works with most peoples preferences. It worked pretty well most of the time...except I now like being able to my editor of choices "find" command to find something, instead of searching through lots of menus and submenus. Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Bihan-Faou" To: Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 12:01 PM Subject: Re: Kernel config utility > Hi, > > > Rather than going in horror shows like a registry editor look alike for the > kernel config, I think that there is a somewhat better approach to the > kernel configuration task. Has anybody taken a look at the configuration > script on RedHat-Linux distributions ? I don't know if it is RedHat specific > or generic to all Linux distribution, but it is really nice. > > You just have to type "make menuconfig" and here you go with a fairly well > structure presentation of the options you have to configure the kernel. The > thingy also manages basic dependencies between kernel options etc. > > It is really easy to understand even for the non-expert, and for > purists/gurus you still have the text file to play around... > > > > must be an ascii file that may be processed into a database > > format for use. we need something that cal be read, diff'ed, > > grep'ped, comm'ed, that can be backed up without problmes, that can be > > moved from host to host, .... > > > I agree with that part. And I would also add that we need something that can > be used even if you don't have X11 installed... > > > Just my 2 cents. > > Patrick. > > -- > www.mindstep.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message