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1722.0. "In search of stanza/kid install help" by AOSG::FILTER (Automatic Posting Software - mail to flume::puck) Fri Aug 18 1995 11:22

Date Of Receipt: 	18-AUG-1995 09:33:54.86
From: 	SMURF::QUARRY::"[email protected]"
To: 	quarry::buildhelp
CC: 	NISHIMOTO@DEC:.zko.quarry
Subj: 	In search of stanza/kid install help

Hello,

	I've got some questions/problems with using stanza and was
	told that you folks might be able to help me out.

	First, there seems to be a problem that maybe/probably I
	don't fully understand.   When I kreg a product, the
	/sys/conf/.product.list gets updated.  Fine.  However, when
	I do a 'doconfig -c <HOSTNAME>' my product doesn't show
	up in the kernel.  I tracked this down to the fact that
	there were some other things already kreg'ed and that
	/sys/conf/.product.list was not the same as 
	/sys/conf/<hostname>.list. I copied the file, 
	did a 'doconfig -c <HOSTNAME>' and the resultant kernel
	had my stuff in it.  What was I doing wrong?  I thought
	that 'doconfig' copies /sys/conf/.product.list to
	/sys/conf/<hostname>.list (or maybe I read the 'kreg' man
	page wrong).

	Second, I'm in this really funny (not humerous) state with
	graphics options.  Yes, I'm one of the wonderful folks in
	the Open3D group that makes up driver stuff.   Anyhoots,
	I'm trying to use stanza to install our newer driver stuff
	rather than forcing our way into the base OS (yes, we're
	working on the BTLD as well, but we got some releases that
	we have to support that are already out there).

	So, I have to deliever stuff for some graphics options that
	are either already fully in the OS (we have updated .o's) or
	"mostly" in the OS (we have updated and new .o's and .c's).
	Can I use stanza/kid install here?  My problem is that there
	are .o's and .c's already out on the systems.  Will stanza
	do the "right thing" and ignore the ones on the base system
	and use the ones in my /usr/opt subdirectory?  What about
	the fragments that I'll have to produce?  Will they interfer
	with stuff that's in various files or are is stanza/kid
	"smart" about the merges/insertions?

	Thanks in advance for any/all help/pointers.

		Pete