Neophyte question

[Ralph Stickley]

Hello,
Sorry, so far the most out of sync part is the docs :-O

You first have to convert the RPM files to the tar file packages.
Use the Menu options:
Manage Package Files
Extract All Binary RPM files.

If you download the Source distribution, then you have an extra step:

Manage Package Files
Compile All sources to Binary RPM
Extract All Binary RPM files

(Of course, the program should prompt you for this automagically AND the
docs should describe this too...)

This copies all the RPM files into the packages directory in tar file format.
We use the tar file to allow our scripts to extract individual files.

Hope this helps. Let me know if anything else seems broken.

Later,
Ralph Stickley

--- Michael George <george@mintcity.com> wrote:
> I am interested in trying out the PeeWeeLinux project.  I got the binary
> distribution (0.50), I've read the document (labeled 0.19) which comes with
> it
> and also the BootDisk HOWTO.
> 
> I unpacked the archive and I've run (as root) pwlconfig, and it seems to run.
> But there's a message printed to stdout or stderr which says:
> 	....Packages not found
> 
> And as I try to follow the quick reference, I can select "Configure Project
> File System", but the menu doesn't display any files within the package.  I'm
> stopped there.
> 
> I tried to poke around the menus a bit, but I got repeated errors on stderr
> which said:
> 	find: ./packages: No such file or directory
> 
> Is there something out of sync here?  It looks in the pwlconfig script that
> it
> expects a directory Packages which contains tarballs.  But this package has
> all RPM files, and there's no references to RPM files in the pwlconfig
> script.
> 
> Any hints?
> 
> -Michael
> 
> -- 
> No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it
> all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one
> exactly
> the functions he is competent to.  It is by dividing and subdividing these
> republics from the national one down through all its subordinations, until it
> ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself; by placing under
> every one what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the
> best.
>                 -- Thomas Jefferson, to Joseph Cabell, 1816
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> See the list archives at http://adis.on.ca/archives/
> See the PWL homepage at  http://peeweelinux.com
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