On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 07:45:37PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > So you're saying that you don't know what System.map is good for? > > > No, but if you actualy cared you'd be telling me instead of asking. > > Sorry, but: If you want to package a linux kernel, you should _know_ > the few basic names and concepts. Otherwise you'll make live hard for > people using your package. Knowledge of System.map is a _must_, also > knowing of initrd and similar concepts. If not, don't waste your and > our time with trying to make a package. (The same is of course valid > for any other package: Who wants to package kde must know to what the > term "mouse" refers to in connection with computers.)
See the reply I just sent to Martin F Krafft, in which I address some of the points you bring in this message. I just want to add: - I'm not trying to make a package, the package is already made and it works fine. I'm using it right now. - I know well about initrd (otherwise my package wouldn't work at all) and similar Linux-related concepts. - It just took me a while to figure out what System.map is. - RTFMing for other stuff doesn't sound much like a challenge. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
