Re: [gentoo-releng] ppc bootable iso bugfix

[John Davis]

On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 02:21, Pieter Van den Abeele wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here's why a good release cycle is needed:
>
> We have started QA on live environment and kernel of the 2004.1 release
> well in advance (even before the official releng date). I had
> everything ready to be uploaded a week ago. Livecd booted ok (released
> as _rc3 for testing). The only problem discovered was a missing /dev
> directory on the stages (catalyst bug).
>
> I did a cvs update to get the fix for this problem and rerolled the
> stages. Until here everything fine. I noticed I had forgotten vim on
> the older livecd, so I chrooted in it the stage1 and emerged vim
> manually. I reran the stage2 and uploaded the result, assuming the cd
> would be fine.
>
> Apparently the stage2 was modified by the cvs update too, and added a
> bunch of x86 rc-scripts to the default runlevel. These scripts called
> for the x86 only 'hwsetup' (which gave an ugly error), tried 'detecting
> the processor of the user' (which didn't work), tried loading APM bios
> stuff (ppc has no BIOS)...
>
> I am rebuilding the mini install and install cds (manually modified
> catalyst to del instead of add the rc-scripts), updated versions
> available today. Please note that in my REMARKS file in the catalyst
> main directory, I already stated months ago that it was not a good idea
> to assume all archs would use the same rc-scripts.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Pieter Van den Abeele
>
>
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Pieter - 
This is definitely a problem :/ Talk to agriffis about it as it sounds
like a baselayout bug - if there are any Catayst bugs that need fixing,
let me know and I will do it ASAP.

Cheers,
//zhen
-- 
John Davis
Gentoo Linux Developer
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~zhen>

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