On 07/06/2011 07:28 PM, Zachary Bedell wrote: > Greetings all, > > I'm just beginning to play with Catalyst to create custom installcd > images. I've started with the Gentoo releng spec files from > svn://anonsvn.gentoo.org/releng/trunk/releases/weekly/specs/amd64. I > managed to get through stage1-3 and installcd-stage1 without any > trouble. > > Running installcd-stage2-minimal dies when trying to run Genkernel > with "ln: failed to create symbolic link `/usr/src/linux': No such > file or directory". I hacked the kmerge.sh script to drop to a shell > right after that happened and found that there was no /usr/src > directory in the chroot. Doing a `mkdir -p /usr/src` right before > the ln call, and everything seems to work out after that. > > I'm assuming something probably went wrong in an earlier stage, but I > don't know enough about Catalyst yet to know quite where to look. > > I can post spec files if they'd help, but I'm using stock from SVN > with just some version number's changed around. Does anyone have a > guess where I might look, or is there any chance this might be a bug > in the kmerge.sh script? I'm using catalyst-2.0.6.916 at this point, > but I may just give the -9999 build a try to see if that fixed the > issue.
Afaik the code in 9999 differs by more than just bugfixes. Let me quote from the -9999 ebuild: "The git master branch (what you get with this -9999 ebuild) for catalyst now contains the work-in-progress code for catalyst-3.x. Be aware that it's very likely that it will not be in a working state at any given point." Also, please be aware that I have brought up the question of deleting the 3.x altogether. That means: In case you start using -9999 we really need to know, so we don't pull the chair that you just sat down on. On the /usr/src issue I would like to ask you to file a bug for it. Copy-pasting from your original mail should be fine. Thanks for bringing it up. Best, Sebastian
