On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 20:41 +0000, Nelson Batalha wrote:
> Oh, I thought you ment something else.
> 
> A few things that, even if not causing it, could be tried:
> 
> - Try a .config for a version that matches your kernel, or call oldconfig. 
> Yours is 2.6.17 and unless you masked all untill that version, you're 
> getting a 2.6.19 right? Not sure what genkernel does then.

It produces a somewhat working CD.  In the case of Serial ATA, the
naming changed in the kernel between the two versions, so you won't have
*any* SATA support if you're using a 2.6.17 kernel configuration.

> - Just try "livecd/type: generic-livecd". It's the only one to be used by 
> us, non releng people, and who don't know "exactly" what it does. You can 
> always make a good "diet" with rm/empty/unmerge.

Well, gentoo-release-* make changes to the output.  They ignore certain
options you've defined and replace them with Release Engineering
standardized ways of doing things.  At some point in the future, they'll
be diverging even more, since gentoo-release-minimal and
gentoo-release-universal are likely to be re-worked to use busybox by
default at some point in the upcoming development branch of catalyst,
after 2.0.x goes stable.

> >(I got it from their .spec - file).

Remember that our spec files are made to work with our snapshot and
produce our output.  As soon as you start changing any of the many
variables (snapshot, profile, seeds, etc) you make changes you're not
aware you're making and can break the build in numerous ways.  Our spec
files are really provided for our own use and not really for general
consumption.  They're great as a guide, but you need to read the example
specs that ship with catalyst and are documented.  The example specs are
the current authoritative source of documentation for catalyst and
explain each spec file key.  If there's one that you feel isn't
documented well enough, then feel free to file a bug and we'll fix it. 

> So did I :S. Did you update the latest genkernel to stable on the snapshot 
> you're using?

This is another issue as you get closer to release times.  Certain
versions of catalyst require certain versions of genkernel.  You'll want
to be using 3.4.7 (and actually, 3.4.7-r1 once I add it to the tree on
Monday).

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
Gentoo Foundation

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