[Axiom-developer] Re: Sage CD

[Alfredo Portes]

Hi Bill,

> I spent some time today learning how to use the DoyenCD to
> directly "clone" another DoyenCD. Actually it is pretty simple.
>
> 1) All you need is to copy the entire contents of the /boot
>    directory (and *only* this directory) to some other place,
>    say '/dev/hdb/tmp-boot' where it is editable (preferable a
>    Linux partition on the hard disk, but smbfs mount also seems
>    to work.
>
> 2) Set the PATH like this:
>
>    cd /dev/hdb/tmp-boot
>    export PATH=./tools:$PATH
>
>    Then just use 'mo2dir' to expand the module file, e.g.
>    'base/var.mo' into another temporary directory, say
>    '/dev/hdb/tmp-var'.
>
> 3) Apply the diffs from the actually /var directory (where
>    zope really lives) to '/dev/hdb/tmp-var',
>
> 4) then zip it back up again as 'var.mo' using 'dir2mo'
>
> 5) and replace the module file in '/dev/hdb/tmp-boot/base'
>
> 6) Now create the iso CD image using 'make_iso.sh', et voila.

Waoo, really nice. I always wanted to used th tools scripts, but
having the machine it was usually easier for me to just create a new
iso. This can be a good idea to give users a basic Doyen CD that they
can modify without starting from scratch.

> One thing I noticed is that after getting this to work,
> we should also run
>
>    http://local-host/.../upgradeAll
>
> to re-generate all of the pages. When I did this I discovered
> a problem with the 'AxiomLanguage' page because the LaTeX
> command \axiomType is not defined in LatexTemplate causes a
> LaTeX error. It needs
>   \def\axiomType#1{{\bf #1}}
>
> There are probably some other missing Axiom-required LaTeX
> commands needed in LatexTemplate. Take a look in
>
>   http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/LatexTemplate
>
> for any other missing ones that you find.

Did not this feature. I saw the LatexTemplate file, but never knew if
all the environments were required.

Regards,

Alfredo