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From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>
To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Finally getting around to building live CDs with Catalyst
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:00:57
Message-Id: 45410526.7090109@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-catalyst] Finally getting around to building live CDs with Catalyst by "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky"
1 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
2 > I'm finally getting around to building my live CDs! Chris will probably
3 > remember how long it's been that I've wanted to do this, but *I've*
4 > forgotten. :)
5 >
6 > In any event, everything appears to be working, although I did have a
7 > question:
8 >
9 > At one point in the build from "livecd stage1", it complained that "gli"
10 > was masked. I put a "package.unmask" and a "package.keywords" in
11 >
12 > /var/tmp/catalyst/tmp/default/livecd-stage1-i686-rameau-0.1/etc/portage/
13 >
14 > and it went forward. Was that the right thing to do and the right way to
15 > do it?
16
17 No. There's an option in the spec file for a /etc/portage overlay (I believe),
18 or you could just unmask it in your snapshot. Catalyst is supposed to be
19 non-interactive, which means not having to insert something into the chroot in
20 the middle of the build :)
21
22 > Also, if I want a live CD *without* the installer, how would I set that up?
23
24 Remove sys-apps/gli from the spec file.
25
26 --
27 Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
28 Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project
29 Today's lesson in political correctness: "Go asphyxiate on a phallus"
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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Finally getting around to building live CDs with Catalyst "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@×××××××.net>