Re: dracut(?) problem

[Yioryos Asprobounitis]

--- On Tue, 12/8/09, Daniel Drake <dsd(a)laptop.org&gt; wrote:

>  From: Daniel Drake <dsd(a)laptop.org&gt;
>  Subject: Re: dracut(?) problem
>  To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" <mavrothal(a)yahoo.com&gt;
>  Cc: fedora-olpc-list(a)redhat.com
>  Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 11:08 AM
>  On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 06:59 -0800,
>  Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote:
>  > OK. I'll try learn more about git till then could you
>  if this work flow has major flaws _if done locally_ ?
>  > 
>  > git clone git://dev.laptop.org/olpc-2.6
>  > cd olpc-2.6
>  
>  > commit -a # is the tree included already?
>  
>  No need to do this
>  
>  > (patch kernel) # do I need to "git add" the patch file
>  and the file/folders that the patch generates?
>  
>  Yes, add all your changes and make a commit at this point.
>  
>  > make clean distclean # this goes here, right?
>  
>  Yes
>  
>  > make xo_1_defconfig
>  > make menuconfig
>  > make 
>  > commit -a #do I need this for the next steps?
>  
>  Drop all these
>  
>  > make xo_1-kernel-rpm
>  
>  Then do this. 
Excellent, thanks.
This makes building a breeze but patching/configuring a nightmare (for me). Is there any
special kernel patching/configuration tool or everything is done manually?
Oh well, maybe when XO-1.5 os is out.

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>  Daniel
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