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author | Richard Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2009-04-01 12:57:45 +0100 |
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committer | Richard Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2009-04-01 12:57:45 +0100 |
commit | 6ed48042e4a8b009b5e38efbf4766a2676a33935 (patch) | |
tree | 11159da6baf256464f91711e8bb1b236f23f67ba /README | |
parent | 002cdf48fee7a59d13865ea9848671b588e86daf (diff) | |
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Various fixes to the build system, add 'make test-boot-image' target.
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@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ these commands as root: make install + Notes on cross-architecture support ---------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -72,12 +73,27 @@ operations and NFS export will work fine, but running commands in guests may not be possible. To enable this requires work for cross-architecture and 32-on-64 -support in febootstrap. +support in febootstrap, fakeroot and fakechroot. The daemon/ directory contains its own configure script. This is so that in future we will be able to cross-compile the daemon. +Mirroring tip +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Having a local Fedora mirror makes a massive difference to the time it +takes to build and rebuild initramfs images. + +Failing that, use squid to cache yum downloads, but read this first: +https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2006-August/009041.html +(In brief, because yum chooses random mirrors each time, squid doesn't +work very well with default yum configuration. To get around this, +choose a Fedora mirror which is close to you, set this with +'./configure --with-mirror=[...]', and then proxy the whole lot +through squid by setting http_proxy environment variable). + + Copyright and license information ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |