Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 23:03:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu (Steve Kargl) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, jb@cimlogic.com.au, crossd@cs.rpi.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, nate@mt.sri.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux software installation and uname Message-ID: <199811142303.QAA25590@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199811112316.PAA03393@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> from "Steve Kargl" at Nov 11, 98 03:16:17 pm
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> Well, I started the thread, so here goes. It isn't that simple, > the script also checks to see that it was executed from /cdrom/x86-1.7/linux. > You can work around that I suppose once you find all the dependency. Or even ignoring the dependency as being irrelevent to the issue: #!/bin/sh # assume failure... PRESTATUS="FAIL" preinstall() { echo "PREINSTALL started" if [ -d /cdrom ] then echo "renaming /cdrom; we need a work directory named /cdrom" mv /cdrom /cdrom-linux-was-here fi mkdir /cdrom mount /dev/cd0a /mnt cd /mnt echo "copying install image to writeable hierarchy for patching" tar cf - . | (cd /cdrom ; tar xvf -) unount /mnt echo "patching the bejesus out of things..." # Oh, look, a patch that, if sent to the vendor, would make # the next CDROM install on FreeBSD as well as Linux, without # all the hoopla... patch <<PATCHEOF yadda yadda yadda... - if [ "$UNAME" = "Linux" ] + if [ "$UNAME" = "Linux" -o "$UNAME" = "FreeBSD" ] PATCHEOF if "$?" = "0" then echo "patching completed successfully" PRESTATUS="OK" else ecoh "patching failed; sorry" fi echo "PREINSTALL complete" } postinstall() { cd / echo "POSTINSTALL started" echo "cleaning up wrietable hierarchy" rm -rf /cdrom if [ -d /cdrom-linux-was-here ] then echo "restoring old /cdrom; thanks for the work directory" mv /cdrom-linux-was-here /cdrom fi echo "POSTINSTALL complete" } echo "INSTALLATION started" # preinstallation garbage preinstall if [ "$PRESTATUS" = "FAIL" ] then # failed preinstall for whatever reason... echo "INSTALLATION aborting" else # preinstall successful; now we do everything that doesn't # bear on the installation environment, only on whether or # how far the vendor install gets... echo "INSTALLATION proceeding" echo "VENDORINSTALL started" sh /cdrom/x86-1.7/linux echo "VENDORINSTALL complete" fi # postinstallation garbage; must call if error, as well, so not in # the "if" block, above... postinatall echo "INSTALLATION complete" exit 0 > Next, you need to specify where the libgcc and libf2c for linux live. /compat/linux/usr/lib > This can be fixed after the install. There other idiosyncracies that > need to be adjusted. Yeah, so? That's why there are software engineers. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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