doc/notes.git - Old operating system design notes

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*	Remove pkg-config and dependencies from packages.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-22	1	-4/+1
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*	Update packages list.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-22	1	-4/+18
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*	Rewrite paragraph on configuration packages.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-19	1	-6/+12
\| \| \| \| \| \|	The language may not be very clear, but its the most precise way I can imagine to describe this fairly advanced topic in software package management.
*	Specify the control file fields.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-18	1	-10/+58
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*	Note control files must be built with bin pkgs.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-18	1	-0/+2
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*	Add metadata and legal notice to name.txt.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-16	1	-1/+18
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*	Add metadata and copyright stuff to build.example.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-16	1	-0/+24
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*	Document package configuration handling.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-16	1	-0/+92
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*	Fix name in copyright notices.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-16	3	-3/+3
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*	Provide an example 'build' file.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-16	1	-0/+32
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*	Add submitted NJIT CCS Capstone project proposal.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-16	1	-0/+101
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*	Make a rough list of some source/binary packages.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-16	1	-0/+25
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*	Describe the package build software.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-16	1	-0/+47
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*	Update source package format specification.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-16	1	-37/+9
\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	The multiple/split binary package problem is solved by proposals 2 and 3 and by making the 'build' file a makefile. I can't make proposal 1 (with a separate 'build' file for each binary package) work in an intuitive way.
*	Fix misspelling of "MPFR".	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-14	1	-1/+1
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*	Describe two possible example applications.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-14	1	-0/+60
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*	Optionally cut out buildds from tasks schedule.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-14	1	-0/+2
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*	Set the setuid bit on ${BBL}/bin/busybox.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-14	1	-0/+1
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*	Disable inetd RPC services.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-14	1	-3/+3
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*	Write a schedule of short-term tasks.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-14	1	-0/+23
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*	Add BusyBox configuration.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-14	1	-0/+1005
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*	Add notes about BusyBox configuration.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-14	1	-0/+56
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*	Clarify and add to CPU arch options in arch notes.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-12	1	-3/+5
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*	Add notes on possible OS names.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-11	1	-0/+40
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*	s/APT/dpkg/ in source format specification.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-11	1	-1/+1
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*	Now remove the other reference to the format spec.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-11	1	-3/+0
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*	Remove reference to format spec from problem note.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-11	1	-3/+0
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*	Clarify directory structure notes in format spec.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-11	1	-5/+2
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*	Add 2 more directory structure proposals to spec.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-11	1	-0/+66
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*	Define problem of multiple and split packages.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-11	1	-0/+37
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*	Rewrite split packages note and rationale in spec.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-10	1	-7/+8
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*	Add TODO notes to source format spec.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-10	1	-0/+6
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*	Clarify some wording in the source format spec.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-10	1	-6/+6
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*	Shorten background info in source format spec.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-10	1	-17/+15
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*	Add source package format 1.0 draft specification.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-10	1	-0/+95
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*	Add toolchain variable and BusyBox build notes.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-07	1	-0/+26
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*	Add filesystem snapshot section to TBB notes.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-06	1	-0/+19
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*	Clean up from second GCC build.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-06	1	-0/+2
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*	Add OS architecture notes.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-06	1	-0/+27
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*	Describe plans to build native system software.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-06	1	-0/+11
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*	Add notes to build the final cross-compiling GCC.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-06	1	-1/+15
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*	Set up /etc/{nsswitch.conf,localtime,ld.so.conf}.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-06	1	-0/+34
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*	Complete locale installation notes.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-06	1	-0/+10
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*	Fix a "'_nl_C_locobj_ptr' undeclared" error.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-06	1	-1/+2
\| \| \| \|	See: http://www.sourceware.org/ml/crossgcc/2011-12/msg00063.html
*	Begin localedef notes.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-06	1	-0/+5
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*	Fix EGLIBC installation error.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-06	1	-1/+1
\| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	Without specifying install_root in 'make install', we see: $ make install LANGUAGE=C LC_ALL=C; export LANGUAGE LC_ALL; \ make -r PARALLELMFLAGS="" CVSOPTS="" -C ../eglibc-2.14/libc objdir=`pwd` install [...] ./scripts/mkinstalldirs /usr/lib64 mkdir /usr/lib64 mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/lib64': Permission denied make[1]: * [/usr/lib64/libc.a] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/pj/bbl/sys/fsmnt/src/eglibc-2.14/lib c' make: * [install] Error 2 (EGLIBC's Makefile uses the mkinstalldirs script to try to make lib64 under /usr.)
*	Move cached SSP test result to config.cache file.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-05	1	-2/+2
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*	Clean up some trailing spaces.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-05	1	-2/+2
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*	Rewrap text.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-05	1	-3/+2
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*	Use '<LINUX_VER>' variable in notes.	P. J. McDermott	2012-01-05	1	-2/+2
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