On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 12:08 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 11:46 -0400, Max Spevack wrote:
First impressions of the LiveCD desktop
We want it to be uncluttered, and to show off the coolest stuff in the
most obvious way. To that end:
- do we need the SCIM module in
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 13:37 -0400, Ahm ed wrote:
The Problem:
Booting the Fedora 7 live cd fails with an error about not being able
to mount the root filesystem.
There are examples of users problems here:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=151292page=2pp=15
I have on
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 22:25 +0200, Sebastian Vahl wrote:
Don't know if this is possible with isolinux: It would be much easier
for non-english users if they could choose their language at the
bootmenu. I know that they could attach eg. live_locale=de_DE.UTF-8.
But a menu or submenu for
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 22:53 -0400, Ahm ed wrote:
I have tried ALL the Test live-cds (from 1 to 3) And on everyone the
cds have failed to boot up. Apparently something to do with either no
/dev/root or modprobe not finding something. I am told this is related
to the new PATA implementation in
On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 17:34 -0700, Jane Dogalt wrote:
I don't know if this will help anyone, but here is a script I wrote/use
to help me find which packages I might want to remove from a livecd
spin.
Cool. We should really have a place for people to be able to find
useful little scripts like
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 18:13 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
So, I've been seeing two symptoms which suggested that yum was looking
at the hosts config/cache, when clearly the code is trying it's best not
to:
[snip]
Attached is a patch which fixes this, I think. It writes out its own
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 15:50 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 14:48 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 17:31 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
Attached is a patch to customize the build_dir, yum cachedir and yum
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 16:02 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 15:56 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 15:01 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
In the pilgrim tool it is fairly easy to inherit from stream files and
just expand a base image into a newer
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 11:53 +0200, Sebastian Vahl wrote:
When installaling a kde livecd and selecting a different timezone (eg. one
from europe) the monitor will suspend
When I select a different timezone (eg. one from europe) in Anaconda during
installation from a kde livecd the monitor
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 18:05 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
Then I configure anaconda manually (currently just using the defaults, which,
again, I later plan to do with a kickstart file) and anaconda successfully
partitions the disc and copies the system from the livecd to harddrive.
But in
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 21:01 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
I used the --shell option of livecd-creator and copied the fixed text.py from
the anaconda CVS into the live-system and gave it another try. And I hit
another exception :)
anacdump.txt is attached :) (well named a bit differently,
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 10:22 +0200, Sebastian Vahl wrote:
I could swear it was working for one time.
Hrmm... I kind of thought it was there too. Maybe I'm hallucinating
though and was only using the hot-repos on top of, eg, rawhide.
The problem is: I need the
groups defined in the comps.xml.
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 17:09 +0200, Sebastian Vahl wrote:
I have a problem with my own created live cds: When clicking on the
icon Install to harddrive anaconda does not start. It's the same when
I try to start liveinst with ALT+F2. Only in a terminal liveinst is
starting anaconda and working
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 20:38 +0200, Lars Bjørndal wrote:
Fine, if you could do that. However, the CD will not start. I get the
following error messages:
Booting to kernel
Buffer I/O error on device sr0,logical 67351
(8 times)
This is a read error off of your CD...
...
Setting up new root
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 12:15 -0400, Elias Hunt wrote:
Is there a way to adjust the livecd boot delay? Currently it’s set to
60 seconds which is a long time for our application, we’d like it
around 5 or 10 seconds, but I’ve been unable to determine where that
comes from in the CD image, nor if
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 16:28 -0400, Elias Hunt wrote:
Found a bug with my own patch after sending it. I didn't define the
nameservers variable so if no nameservers are specified in the kickstart
file livecd-creator fails after package installation. I'm attaching a
patch to fix that, after the
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 22:00 +0100, Bruno Postle wrote:
Just a quick question, is it practical to build an i386 livecd on an
x86_64 system?
Yep; just point at the i386 repos. This is how the i386 live images for
Fedora 7 were done.
Jeremy
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On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 16:40 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
I don't like using /var/tmp. If there are better ways to send git
patches, let me know.
On the third time of seeing a patch along these lines, committing this
one.
Jeremy
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On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 19:19 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 16:59, Jeremy Katz wrote:
But yes, a bug report against anaconda would be great. Much less easy
to get lost that way than mail :-)
which was fixed by you yesterday, yay thanks!
But now I found yet another
On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 12:41 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
See the attached patches - the first makes LiveCDTarget be a sub-class
of InstallationTarget, the second adds --target and the last adds
RawTarget which I've been playing with.
So, there hasn't been any comments on these
On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 23:24 -0400, Jon Steer wrote:
I have built an FC 7 LiveCD on a FC7 system with a kickstart file that
was modified from the original. Upon booting, I get a large amount of
Ata2.00 exceptions and an error message that it cannot find the root
file system. Afterwards, I get a
On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 11:55 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is my first email to the list and I am inquiring to see if anyone has
experience setting up a FC6 or F7 live cd that automatically boots to the
xen hypervisor. If you have done so, what did you use to create it and if
you have
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 08:45 +0200, Alexandre Magaz Graça wrote:
I'm making a LiveCD that I want to autorun (from Windows and Linux) to
open a browser showing some help about how it works. So I added a new
option that lets add to the CD root file system.
If someone finds it useful, the
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 14:08 -0700, Jane Dogalt wrote:
--- Jeremy Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 08:45 +0200, Alexandre Magaz Graça wrote:
I'm making a LiveCD that I want to autorun (from Windows and Linux)
to
open a browser showing some help about how it works. So
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 08:23 +0200, Alexandre Magaz Graça wrote:
Running livecd-creator (latest git version) having all repo lines in ks
without mirrorlist gives me this error:
Thanks; applied
Jeremy
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On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 10:22 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
A few thoughts...
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 18:06 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
I know there may already be some similar functionality already in revisor,
this
patch adds it to livecd-tools
The two new
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 06:27 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
Michel Salim wrote:
Any reason why dd is preferred over, say, tar? The latter would be much
safer. And files would not have to be moved to their final partitions after
'dd' too.
seeking (cdrom and disk). Lots slower (5X?). I
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 14:16 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
livecd-creator's InstallationTarget.install() seems to run
self.configureSystem(), then run self.configureNetwork(), possible
overriding some configuration files generated with %post.
Hmm, the question is when is the best point at
On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 20:24 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
A patch to enable setting the build directory.
This adds more flexibility for those who don't have as much space in
/var/tmp.
If you don't have space in /var/tmp, just use
--tmpdir=/some/other/dir/with/space. Setting the build
On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 20:29 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
This enables other applications using livecd-creator as a backend
application, while already having initialized a yum object configured
with a certain installroot (which once the yum object is initialized,
cannot be changed).
On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 20:36 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
A patch which is enabling translation in the python code, but is not
including that what builds livecd-tools or it's RPMs.
Using rhpl.translate for new code is probably a bad idea... it doesn't
support all gettext features and also
On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 20:40 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
A patch which allows multiple kernels to be installed on the live media,
giving boot options in the syslinux menu for all of them.
This part looks mostly reasonable...
In addition, this patch adds an optional timeout parameter for
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 23:21 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 20:24 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
A patch to enable setting the build directory.
This adds more flexibility for those who don't have as much space in
/var/tmp.
If you don't
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 23:24 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 20:29 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
This enables other applications using livecd-creator as a backend
application, while already having initialized a yum object configured
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 16:07 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
This patch moves the yum cache into /var/cache/livecd so that out of the
box, the tool doesn't repeatedly download stuff from the internet.
Patch is empty :) But going from the earlier patch you put in bugzilla,
I know the gist of this.
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 14:05 -0700, Thomas Chung wrote:
On 8/7/07, dexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue August 7 2007 21:09:13 Colin Walters wrote:
This makes it so things aren't all named livecd-.
Please resend all patches coz it got mangled!
BTW, if possible, please use fedora
So, I commented a little on Colin's related patch... I'm leaning towards
this approach, though.
On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 20:33 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
A patch to change the location of the yum cache directory.
This enables existing yum cache to be used, which in our case is
especially
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 23:28 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
There's an addition problem with having tempfile.mkdtemp(), and that is
that mounts can not easily be unmounted in a next run, if the creation
of live media fails in one way or the other. Having a static
build_dir, it can be used to
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 16:42 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
This might be the wrong list to be asking this, but out of curiosity-
Why can't relabeling be done if the host is running with selinux
disabled? (selinux=0)
It's just writing some metadata to the fs right? Seems like it should
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 17:44 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
+class TextProgress(object):
+def start(self, filename, url, *args, **kwargs):
+print Retrieving %s % (url,)
+self.url = url
+def update(self, *args):
+pass
+def end(self, *args):
+print
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 17:49 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 17:26 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
So, I commented a little on Colin's related patch... I'm leaning towards
this approach, though.
If using the system yum cache works, that makes a lot of sense to me.
The nice
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 15:51 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
So, I commented a little on Colin's related patch... I'm leaning towards
this approach, though.
On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 20:33 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
A patch to change the location of the yum cache
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 12:53 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 00:20 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 23:09 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 14:16 +0200, Jeroen van
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 12:59 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 23:28 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
There's an addition problem with having tempfile.mkdtemp(), and that is
that mounts can not easily be unmounted in a next run, if the creation
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 13:31 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 12:37 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 17:49 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 17:26 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
So, I commented a little on Colin's related patch... I'm leaning
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 10:59 -0400, Patrice Guay wrote:
I think there is a missing boot option on Live media created by
livecd-creator: boot from the system default bootloader. Since the Live
media (CDROM or USB key) created from livecd-creator is not ejected when
the system is restarted or
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 00:40 -0400, Jon Steer wrote:
Has anyone managed to boot an F7 LiveCD as an F7 Xen Guest?
I can boot an F6 LiveCD, but not F7.
I suspect this is due to bugs in the IDE emulation of older qemu. Xen
and VirtualBox both have forks of qemu included in their source trees.
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 14:12 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
Jesse Keating wrote:
I've sent a patch doing exactly this over to anaconda-list (couldn't
think of a better place to send pykickstart patches). We'll see what
comes of the discussion.
Maybe the appropriate list is
On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 20:09 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:58:21 +0200
Jeroen van Meeuwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Right so what I'm reading is that the code needs to forcibly disable
(not enable) source repositories initially then only enable them in
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 16:02 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
Phillip Lougher wrote:
Douglas McClendon-2 wrote:
Douglas McClendon wrote:
Some stats based on the Fedora-8-Test-1-Live-i686.iso
original squashfs.img 712495104 (681M)
sparse squashfs.img 709820416 (678M)
sparse
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 16:40 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
Had a chance to look at cleaning up the patches any? If not, I'll take
a stab the first of next week as I really want to get the basic bits in
for test2 :)
I've been waiting to put turboLiveInst to rest
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 22:33 +0200, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
As proposed on the -devel mailing list, I've started to work on a
livecd for Fedora Electronic Lab. Hopefully, Jeremy's support still
stands.
Yep!
with livecd-creator, I created a livecd with a kickstart file based on
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 05:23 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
(I'm getting a sense of deja vu, that I'm learning the same lesson
someone else recently learned here. Lets see if the 3rd time is the
charm...)
It looks like you're getting hit by what Colin was where the list is
eating some
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 11:22 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:51:54 -0400
Jeremy Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My first question would be why does it matter? Why not just have
more repos listed and if you're doing something with sources, you
deal with the repos and have
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 11:10 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 05:23 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
(I'm getting a sense of deja vu, that I'm learning the same lesson
someone else recently learned here. Lets see if the 3rd time is the
charm...)
It looks like you're getting
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 15:49 +0200, Sebastian Vahl wrote:
Am Do 16.August 2007 schrieb Jeremy Katz:
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 20:10 +0200, Sebastian Vahl wrote:
Am Do 16.August 2007 schrieb Jeremy Katz:
Alternately, we could move the lang-support groups into desktop instead
of -base
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 05:23 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
Attached is a revision to the persistence implementation that I posted a
couple weeks ago. This is mainly for Jeremy, Tim, and anyone else who
is interested in working on this, or something similar. I.e. at the
very least, it is
Note: this isn't really very kickstart related -- more just general
anaconda.
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 22:07 -0500, Jon Steer wrote:
When I use liveinst, I get grub options that are different than what
was on the original liveCD. For example, the original LiveCD had
selinux off and no X, the
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 22:25 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can actually feed liveinst a kickstart by adding a $1 to the end of
the line in liveinst where it invokes anaconda... then you can do
liveinst --kickstart=somefile.cfg and it passes the --kickstart= part to
anaconda..
If have
On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 05:30 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
Of particular note, is that at this point in time, I'm getting a bit
wary as to whether or not, short of 'fixing' problems that are probably
beyond my abilities and/or desires, that this entire devicemapper
snapshot mechanism,
On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 17:35 +0200, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
On 8/23/07, Jeremy Katz wrote:
There's more than just the package being installed that's needed. You
also need rhgb on the kernel command line. We don't do this on the live
images because the last time I tried, even with rhgb
On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 18:39 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
Jon Steer wrote:
I just noticed that there is apparently a /etc/statetab which allows
you to specify directory paths to load from other sources upon bootup.
So, on a liveCD,mounting /etc or mounting /var on another partition,
On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 18:09 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
Ok just to repost - here's the current delta to livecd-creator that I
can't live without.
The first part is answering Why is my network pegged? (though does
anyone know if there's a nice way to use something like Wireshark to
get this
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 01:07 +0200, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
#001:
from livecd-fedora-base-desktop.ks
repo --name=development
--mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhidearch=$basearch
[..]
# make sure debuginfo doesn't end up on the live image
-*debuginfo
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 14:32 +0200, Sebastian Vahl wrote:
My actual spin of the kde livecd from today has some problems:
This is yesterday's rawhide, correct?
1. It seems that the root password wasn't erased. If I boot the iso in
vmware I got the error in the attached screenshot. If I boot the
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 19:02 -0400, John Lumby wrote:
I'm trying to upgrade an FC4 system to Fedora 7 and thought the
Fedora-7-Live-i686.iso would be the way to do it.But after booting the
Live CD, I don't see any option or instructions or application program to
upgrade. Is there one? If
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 12:45 +0200, Alexandre Magaz Graça wrote:
I'm still having the same problem. I already verified that it's using
git HEAD mayflower. What's really making it fail, is mayflower trying to
read modules.block when it doesn't exists. I can't find neither in my
system nor in
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 16:47 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
Mark McLoughlin wrote:
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 15:33 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
Mark McLoughlin wrote:
What you have is mostly fine IMHO, it was the tarball I had a problem
with.
Ok, in that case, it should be no sweat
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 11:54 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
Indeed, that was the problem, thanks. This seemed like it was just
waiting to bite other unaware contributors (periodic sudo cp
mayflower /usr/lib/livecd-creator is not obvious), so patch in my git
repository, and also attached.
Pushed
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 14:56 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
I follow this list and have read the README and Wiki, but
I still have questions. To start, is there any documentation
other than the sources (the README and Wiki are pretty sparse).
Most of my questions are detailed and not x86 mainline
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 15:54 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 16:47 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
Mark McLoughlin wrote:
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 15:33 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
Mark McLoughlin wrote:
What you have is mostly fine IMHO
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 17:49 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
I was thinking about what you said about it makes anaconda depend a bit
too much on the details. Can you clarify that a bit? Specifically, I
can imagine one or two possible (but not entirely pretty) ways to change
the patch, so
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 11:55 +0200, Sebastian Vahl wrote:
I've noticed a little problem when booting with selinux
enabled: /home/fedora/.bashrc would not be copied/created. When booting
with enforcing=0 all would be fine so I assume this is a selinux
problem. But I've found no entry in
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 11:18 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 11:55 +0200, Sebastian Vahl wrote:
I've noticed a little problem when booting with selinux
enabled: /home/fedora/.bashrc would not be copied/created. When booting
with enforcing=0 all would be fine so I assume
On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 10:16 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 17:49 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
As has probably been noticed, there are a lot fewer
options now, and a good chunk are marked as for debugging/development
use only with comments.
One option that I'm
On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 13:01 +0200, Alexandre Magaz Graça wrote:
I've found a bug in how livecd-creator adds entries in isolinux menu.
There must be a newline after the memtest entry, otherwise the next
entry gets merged with this one. The attached patch fixes this.
Thanks, applied
Jeremy
On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 10:30 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:18:06 -0400
Jeremy Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So my biggest problem with the repo option wasn't really the syntax,
but more the impact on having reproducible configs. If your image is
created using
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 10:15 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
What do people think about using unionfs for persistence (and perhaps
Copy-On-Write in general) in Fedora LiveCDs?
The big question today is the same as the big question around using
unionfs for anything has been for a while now --
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:16:51 -0400
Jesse Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:53:14 +0200
Jeroen van Meeuwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How come it would now /require/ pykickstart = 1.13 if it's a
try/except/pass for pykickstart 1.13?
Well, the try/except/pass wasn't for
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 12:08 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
Is this a bug that /dev/console is being referenced before it is
created, or is there some obscure magic relating to /dev/console that I
am unaware of?
Looks like a bug to me. But at the same time, it looks like a bug
that's not
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 17:29 -0400, Patrice Guay wrote:
VMware has developed tools to create Linux-based virtual appliances.
They use a stripped down version of Ubuntu as the base OS. From what I
saw, livecd-tools offers a simpler and more powerful approach to create
an OS + application
On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 19:38 -0400, Chris Hubick wrote:
1) Note that if the path to the tmpdir is too long, /sbin/losetup -a will
truncate the path in it's output, and livecd-creator will fail (after
tweaking, mine above is *just* short enough).
dmc just sent a patch for this and I pulled it
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 16:17 +0200, Sebastian Vahl wrote:
Since saturday I get the following error after the creation of the
initrd:
[snip]
livecd-tools from git and rawhide are up-to-date (an hour ago).
*sigh* yum bug that only gets hit by livecd-creator. Fixed in upstream
yum and
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 12:22 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
This series of 7 patches is a pure split of the prior turboLiveInst v3
monolithic patch. (i.e. produces identical tree, therefore I have done
no further testing)
(Reply for each individually as I look over and apply...)
This one
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 12:26 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
logically there is no reason why resize2fsToMinimal should require an
argument of the size in blocks of the filesystem that is passed in as
it's first argument, when that can be calculated by pointing dumpe2fs at
that first
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 12:24 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
ignore-deleted isn't an option worth keeping around
The main (albeit, not the best in the world :) reason that I've kept it
thus far is that it speeds up builds when just testing a livecd-creator
change.
But assuming the rest requires
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 12:29 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
even if turboLiveInst/genMinInstDelta didn't depend on this, it is a
good idea anyway for anaconda's livecd backend to use dumpe2fs to
determine the size of data to copy during install, rather than looking
at the size of the block
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 13:29 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 12:24 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
ignore-deleted isn't an option worth keeping around
The main (albeit, not the best in the world :) reason that I've kept it
thus far
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 12:31 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
even if turboLiveInst/genMinInstDelta didn't depend on this, it is not a
bad idea to move resize2fs earlier in the anaconda livecd backend.
Though practically, this is entirely for the benefit of turboLiveInst.
Applied, thanks
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 14:21 -0400, Chris Hubick wrote:
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Jeremy Katz wrote:
3) Is there any way to find out the final list of packages for a kickstart
file after dependency resolution against a given set of repositories?
Not right now -- it could be relatively easily
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 13:55 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
Now that you're into the guts of genMinInstDelta (patch 6/7), maybe this
topic is very timely-
Heh, indeed :-) -ENEEDMORECAFFEINE first though before I finish looking
at 6 and 7.
All those hard coded (117/118/119/120/121) loop
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 14:37 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 13:55 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
All those hard coded (117/118/119/120/121) loop devices used are very ugly.
Probably they should get replaced with dynamic choices via losetup -f
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 12:34 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
this patch takes care of the anaconda side of taking advantage of
livecd's created with a livecd-tools that has
turboLiveInst/genMinInstDelta support. But the code does check for the
legacy situation, and handles it gracefully.
On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 22:56 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
attached patch fixes the losetup truncation problem brought up by Chris
Hubick.
Looks good; applied. Thanks!
Jeremy
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On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 01:55 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
revised patch attached. Not tested, but I've convinced myself it does
the same thing. Feel free to prune my verbose comments...
Applied with some verbosity pruned :)
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On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 22:31 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 12:34 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
this patch takes care of the anaconda side of taking advantage of
livecd's created with a livecd-tools that has
turboLiveInst/genMinInstDelta
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 15:09 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
Douglas McClendon wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 22:31 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
The danger would be loop117, as that is the one created at install
time. loop118 being locked up
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 15:48 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
Although then the other question is what to do when we're not squashed.
Do we just then want to put it on the ext3fs?
Here is the heart of something I think I mentioned that was wrong a long
time ago. I
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 19:12 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 15:48 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
Although then the other question is what to do when we're not squashed.
Do we just then want to put it on the ext3fs?
Here
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 02:08 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
The attached patch causes mayflower to use dynamically allocated loop
devices for the rootfs readonly-base, readwrite-overlay, squashfs, and
osmin loop devices, rather than /dev/loop118,119,120121.
Looks good; I'll give it a quick
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