how to 'rip apart' a rpm.

[Ed Greshko]

On 05/18/2010 10:42 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 17 May 2010, Ed Greshko wrote:
>   
>> On 05/18/2010 09:09 AM, Tom H wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks at nerd.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On 05/17/2010 02:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Clarify here: I can do all that as the user. What I can't do, until
>>>>> somebody decides to fix mkinitrd, is to run it as the user. That is my
>>>>> specific bitch. And I think its perfectly valid. mkinitrd simply will
>>>>> not run for anybody but root.
>>>>>           
>>>> And this is a bad thing? I, for one, don't want some low-level user
>>>> installing a kernel on my machines. I don't want them installing
>>>> ANYTHING that's global.
>>>>         
>>> +1
>>>       
>> I get the feeling that Gene isn't talking about the actual installation
>> of the initrd image.
>>     
> Feeling Ed?  I have written this very plainly, several times.  But W/O 
> exceptions here, everyone is assuming that I am installing a kernel from 
> fedora, which is as yet useless on this machine.  I have an rv610 based ATI 
> video card, and it has been doing an extremely obnoxious fits of self 
> blanking anytime something touches the right edge of the screen since I built 
> this box about 2 years ago now.  ONLY the 2.6.34(-rcN), and now 2.6.34 final 
> have the drm fixes that stop that.  The CCFL's in this monitor have somehow 
> survived all the flashing, but the power supply that drives them has had to 
> be rebuilt, the caps went south.
>   
Yes <sarcasm>*feeling*<\sarcasm>.   I didn't want to be obnoxious, this
time, and write something like..."Didn't you morons read what Gene has
written".  :-)
> And with 2.6.34 final, I now have a pulseaudio that is 99% usable, not lost 
> in stuttering, clicking and popping.
>
>   
>> I think he is wondering why something like...
>>
>> mkinitrd /tmp/xxx 2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i686.PAE
>>     
> But that kernel will not run my video card well enough to be able to scroll 
> thru an email message and read it.  For every 1 line text scroll attempted, 
> its a good long second to repaint the screen, excruciatingly distracting.
>   
Which is why I said..."something *like*".  :-)
>   
>> needs root privileges to run.   Is there anything inherently wrong is
>> expecting that to work?
>>
>>     
> Exactly Ed.  My question precisely.
>
>   
I think your answer is covered by the emergence of dracut.  

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