Re: [Ltib] installing the /opt/ltib structure?

[Stuart Hughes]

On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 06:36 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Stuart Hughes wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 05:52 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Stuart Hughes wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Robert,
> > > >
> > > > The content (source/patches) are supposed to be completely
> > > > independent of the tool itself.  So normally to move a project I
> > > > would do this:
> > > >
> > > > $ ./ltib -m distclean
> > > > $ cd .. ; tar zcvf my_ltib.tar.gz _ltib_
> > > >
> > > > and then copy to the target machine and untar it and run ./ltib and
> > > > let it built the platform you want.
> > >
> > >   the current issue is that i'm assuming you're referring to running
> > > that "ltib" command in the directory corresponding to the expanded
> > > tarball of whatever version of ltib the original installer used.
> > > which i don't have in front of me at the moment.  i'm working with an
> > > already-installed ltib and i don't see the original tarball that was
> > > used (although i'm fairly sure it was 6.4.1).
> >
> > Working with an already install LTIB is okay, so long as it's the
> > one you want to clone.  You simply need to do:
> >
> > $ ./ltib -m distclean
> >
> > This cleans it up to a state that you can then tar up and put on
> > another machine.  You don't need to original installer necessarily.
> 
>   ok, i think i see how this works, so a few issues:
> 
> 1) i obviously want to keep the original installer's configuration
> (i'm guessing things like .config and .ltibrc).  will doing a
> distclean preserve everything like that so i don't have to redo the
> configuration?

.ltibrc will be preserved (it's static and in CVS).
.config will not.  If you want to keep your config, then you need to
save your config/platform/_target_/.config, for example:

$ cp config/platform/_target_/.config config/platform/_target_/myconf
$ ./ltib -m distclean
# tar up and untar on other machine then:
$ ./ltib --preconfig config/platform/_target_/myconfig --batch

> 
> 2) i just tried to do a distclean and got:
> 
>   about to remove
> 
>   /home/wildbld/ltib/rpm
>   /home/wildbld/ltib/rpmdb
>   /home/wildbld/ltib/tmp
> 
>   ...
>   no rpm database dir /home/wildbld/ltib/rpmdb
>   Exiting on error or interrupt
> 
> sure enough, there's no such directory.  thoughts?

This is probably an artifact on the old version you're using (e.g a
bug).  To recover, run ./ltib and let it re-populate the rpm database
and then try the distclean.

Regards, Stuart