Try rm -rf /tmp/.build_hist(or something similar). That cleared a problem
for me before. It would probably be good for mkcds to do so also after a
successful run
Todd
----- Original Message -----
From: "pablito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 8:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] iso file creation
> Okay, I tried it again and I still get that one big iso file. rpmslist
> sorts the files out by cd and the script reads rpmslist, and then I see
that
> the script pushes files according to the rpmslist somewhere, but something
> must be going wrong somewhere.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Warly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Friday, June 15, 2001 12:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [Cooker] iso file creation
>
>
> >"pablito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> I have tried to mirror cooker and make the iso files several times.
> Since
> >> everyone else makes these with no problems, I figured I must be doing
> >> something wrong.
> >>
> >> There was something wrong with the mkcds install script at first. Then
I
> >> found out mkisofs is not installed by default and installed it. Now,
the
> >> result is fairly standard:
> >>
> >> a. A message saying I don't have locale configured right, which I
> >> checked and found that locale is installed and appears to be
configured.
> >
> >not important
> >
> >> b. At the end of the script, messages that files were not found in
> the
> >> scripts and were being added to the last iso file. This happens no
> matter
> >> how many times I repeat the mirroring process. (I could not get the
DSL
> >> connection to work in linux so I am using a windows program called
> >> syncromagic that seems to make a copy of the site and delete
non-matching
> >> files.)
> >
> >This is not linked to the mirroring process. This only have to do with
the
> >Mandrake/base/rpmslist file. This files contains the cooker packages
> separated
> >by CDs. As there are often new packages or new libraries into cooker,
these
> files,
> >that I only check once every one or 2 weeks, are not up to date, and as a
> consequence
> >there are packages present in the repository but not in the file, these
> packages
> >are added to the last iso images automatically.
> >
> >> c. Result: I get three iso files, one 1.2 gigs in size and the other
2
> of
> >> 0 bytes apiece. I got this same result once by running mkcds.pl by
> itself.
> >
> >This is not normal, however.
> >
> >--
> >Warly
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
