People might be wondering why we haven't seen a new build in a while, even though ds-backup has been packaged, and we have several minor bugs and issues fixed in xs-config and xs-pkgs. Part of the problem is that the livecd creation tools have quite brittle and unexplained dependencies in their environments.
Wad used to prep livecds on a machine known as duplicator. That box had the magic :-) and managed to crank out builds alright -- but right now it is offline - I think I took it offline when I was last in Boston myself. Other boxes were known to "not" have the magic -- I don't like build toolchains that require magic, build tools have to be stable, resilient and reproduceable. Dennis told me that on F9 all the build tools, including livecd-tools, were much more solid, and that I'd be able to build everything for F7 from F9, so I've rebuilt my 'xs-builder' box as a F9 box, and pulled in the appropriate packages. rpm building has worked after a bit of tweaking. LiveCD tools are a different story. After a few feeble early attempts at building a livecd, on Friday I took on it for real. Well, I have now spent my weekend playing whack-a-mole with this. Part of the fun is documented in the thread below: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-July/msg01513.html So it is Sunday evening, I have a patch to livecd-tools, with this I've stopped the kernel panics. cheers, martin ps: while waiting spinning various livecds, I also tested pungi, which seems saner than livecd tools, but it crashes inmediately and obscurely on our repositories. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel