Re: [iPAQ] Some minor tweak requests for v0.17 images

On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Carl Worth wrote:
> George this is probably your area:
>
> Here are three easy changes to improve the current release:
>
> 1) Change DISPLAY=unix:0 to DISPLAY=:0 in init/root/.profil
> and init/etc/init.d/xdemo. The name unix will not resolve
> after networking is setup.
>
> 2) Configure loopback networking interface. This could simply
> be a properly-linked init/etc/init.d/networking script with
> contents:
>
> /sbin/ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 up
>
> Without loopback it's impossible to display X programs from
> a chroot environment to the iPAQ.
>
> 3) Support my laziness and make a link to vim named vi. :)

Agreed...But only for the lazy people....
>
> PS. I know you mentioned adding etc to CVS at one point. That might
> make changes like these easier. Then again, the symlinks in /etc/rc*.d
> might be an issue...

I think it is George's intent to setup a CVS branch for the images after ALS and
after Ed Gould comes back. I think we also need some automated scrips at that
point to create the src and cramfs images. This way the scripts can be checked
into CVS as well and adjusted as the development community sees fit.

Also..Another change to the /etc stuff...

Add ld.so.conf and put the current contents of LD_LIBRARY_PATH from /etc/profile
and put the in /etc/ld.so.conf. Remove LD_LIBRARY_PATH from /etc/profile.

Also we may want to change xdemo to stop overiding /etc/profile exports like
PATH and stuff...Just source /etc/profile from xdemo. I think Jim/George
mentioned working on getting xdm (or hopefully gdm) working on the ipaq after
ALS....

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