dracut(?) problem

[Yioryos Asprobounitis]

--- On Tue, 12/8/09, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:

> From: Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org>
> Subject: Re: dracut(?) problem
> To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" <mavrothal at yahoo.com>
> Cc: fedora-olpc-list at redhat.com
> Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 11:08 AM
> On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 06:59 -0800,
> Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote:
> > OK. I'll try learn more about git till then could you
> if this work flow has major flaws _if done locally_ ?
> > 
> > git clone git://dev.laptop.org/olpc-2.6
> > cd olpc-2.6
> 
> > commit -a # is the tree included already?
> 
> No need to do this
> 
> > (patch kernel) # do I need to "git add" the patch file
> and the file/folders that the patch generates?
> 
> Yes, add all your changes and make a commit at this point.
> 
> > make clean distclean # this goes here, right?
> 
> Yes
> 
> > make xo_1_defconfig
> > make menuconfig
> > make 
> > commit -a #do I need this for the next steps?
> 
> Drop all these
> 
> > make xo_1-kernel-rpm
> 
> Then do this.

Excellent, thanks.
This makes building a breeze but patching/configuring a nightmare (for me). Is there any special kernel patching/configuration tool or everything is done manually?
Oh well, maybe when XO-1.5 os is out.

> 
> Daniel
> 
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