On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:35:48 -0800 Marc Chamberlin <marc@marcchamberlin.com> wrote:
Hi, In order for me to try and grok the YaST bootloader setup module, I thought I would try and download the source code for YaST and compile it on my openSuSE11.4 x86_64 system. Then perhaps I can instrument the code in order to understand the model of the bootloader that YaST presents... (and yes, I have asked before for help on understanding the model, and not gotten any useful replies, just sympathy from others who like me do not have a clue what the various settings will do either.. And yes, I understand GRUB, and the GNU documentation, but the openSuSE model and the bootloader GUI remains incomprehensible to me...)
Hi, Well, we were quite busy last weeks. And maybe you ask wrongly ( I cannot find your email at all, when you send it?). If you have specific question we can try to answer. In general YaST2 bootloader is module that provide UI and proposal logic. Data is serialized in perl-Bootloader library that knows different syntax for different bootloaders. It is quite complex module, so if you want just do some minor modification you should ask specific question.
I followed the instructions found at
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:YaST_development
and one of the things these instructions did was to refer me to another tutorial -
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:YaST_tutorials_development_in_general
which indicated that I needed to be sure to install a number of additional packages. I carefully tried to install the listed packages, but a number (shown below) were missing -
It is wiki, feel free to improve it. But if you found that it is not in yast development pattern open bug report and we can improve it.
gettext-devel
I think it should be gettext-tools
gtk-devel there is a gtk2-devel package installed on my system. Equivalent?
Yes, gtk1 we no longer use.
liby2util-devel
It is included in yast2-core-devel.. `zypper in liby2util-devel` install correct package
openssl-devel there is a libopenssl-devel package installed on my system. Equivalent?
Yes.
pkgconfig there is a pkg-config package installed on my system. Equivalent?
Yes But as I said I prefer if we have working devel_yast pattern so if this pattern missing something, just report bug report and we try to fix it.
I dunno what to do about that, so decided to punt and go on. (Anyone got any ideas on how I should locate these packages?)
Anywise, I downloaded the YaST source from the SVN (but not from trunk) using the following command -
svn co http://svn.opensuse.org/svn/yast/branches/SuSE-Linux-11_4-Branch/
which I guessed would get me the source code for the version of YaST2 that was installed in my system. The checkout proceed fine, as did the three make commands to build and install YaST2. But when I got to the step -
y2tool y2makeall
Why you build all? you should concentrate on one you are interested in.
I got a number of errors as shown below (steps not shown appeared to build properly without errors) These may be related to the fact that I was unable to find and install all the required packages, so if that is the case, then I need to understand how to find and install those packages. Thanks in advance for helping me with this...
Marc...
Errors from the automatic compile of all of YaST...... <snip>
there errors are useless. Please run make in corresponding dictionary and paste output here. just note that some modules is not longer supported and provide just as it is ( usually noone use it so we even don't notice that it doesn't build ).
y2makeall summary:
Success in 103 directories Failure in 12 directories:
storage (base package) registration (base package) sound (base package) schema (base package) openwsman-yast boot-server cim heartbeat qt-graph ruby-bindings slide-show you-server
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