On 03/22/2013 07:20 AM, Glen Ogilvie wrote:
Hi,
I've been trying to test the installer change below before RC4,
thinking that it might be quite helpful.
I am having a little bit of trouble however. Could someone point me
in the right direction on a couple
of things.
1. How does the src tar.xz file for drakx-installer-stage2 get
created? I assume it comes from a
build of svn://svn.mageia.org/svn/soft/drakx/trunk
<http://svn.mageia.org/svn/soft/drakx/trunk>, but can't find how it
ends up as a tar.xz
I'm maybe about two days ahead of you on this, but here's what I think
happens, FWIW. You do your checkout, and then in the mdk-stage1
subdirectory, do a "make dist-svn". This should produce the tar.xz in
the mdk-stage1 directory.
2. When I've built a new stage2, any tricks on getting it into an ISO?
The tar.xz you built above becomes one of the SOURCES for the
drakx-installer-binaries package. If you bring that package down to
your rpm/SRPMS directory and do an "rpm -ivh" on it, you'll find a
tar.xz file for mdk-stage1 in rpm/SOURCES. You can either replace this
with the one you generated above, or I think there is a --(keyword) that
will tell rpm to look somewhere else (your svn directory) for SOURCES.
Then rebuild drakx-installer-binaries with the new tar.xz.
Finally, download the SRPM for drakx-installer-images, and build *it*
using the new drakx-installer-binaries. The final binary rpm will
include all of the stuff (like boot.iso) that goes in the install
directories of the cauldron tree.
