[lokisetup] lokisetup for dummies

[Timothee Besset]

Btw lokisetup 2.0 gets overdue, but I guess everyone is overbooked 
anyway. Or a gtk2 version at least.

TTimo

Chunky Kibbles wrote:

>On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 11:37:56AM +0000, grant williamson wrote:
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>>Hi All,
>>	I am a newbie to using the loki installer. I am familliar with rpm &
>>makeself. 
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>>Anyone have a nice set of detailed instructions to build a package.
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>Basically, no.
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>Grab loki_setup, and loki_setupdb from CVS on i.o
>Build them [setupdb first].
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>You'll find an "image" dir in loki_setup. It contains the bits you
>need for the platform you're on. [and some example pieces, IIRC].
>Notably, it's what you either burn to a CD or turn into a makeself
>archive.
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>Now go download a recent installer made by someone else, extract it
>with ./blah.run --target=/tmp/blah
>Anything Ryan's released on icculus.org is probably a good example.
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>And nosey about. Compare setup.data/setup.xml with the README.xml file
>in loki_setup.
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>README.xml is kept up to date, it's your reference guide.
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>Take the suck-it-and-see approach to working out how to use it. If you
>run into any problem, you can ask either on this list, on in
>#icculus.org on irc.freenode.net
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>Hope that was of some help,
>Gary (-;
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