[gentoo-catalyst] GSOC: Making the cluster LiveCD bootable from USB

[gentoo-catalyst] GSOC: Making the cluster LiveCD bootable from USB

[Tom Stellard]

For Google Summer of Code, I am interested in working on a project to
make the current Gentoo cluster LiveCD bootable from a USB device.  I
have been using catalyst to build the current version of the LiveCD,
so I can test it out, and I have a few questions:

It was mentioned on the gentoo-soc list that the next version of
catalyst would allow you to build stages 1-4 with only one call.  Is
this feature planned, and if so what is the current progress?

When catalyst is building a stage, is there a way to execute a script
after catalyst has entered the chroot environment to do something like
mount tmpfs on /var/tmp/portage?

Thanks.

-Tom Stellard

Re: [gentoo-catalyst] GSOC: Making the cluster LiveCD bootable from USB

[Andrew Gaffney]

Tom Stellard wrote:
> For Google Summer of Code, I am interested in working on a project to
> make the current Gentoo cluster LiveCD bootable from a USB device.  I
> have been using catalyst to build the current version of the LiveCD,
> so I can test it out, and I have a few questions:
> 
> It was mentioned on the gentoo-soc list that the next version of
> catalyst would allow you to build stages 1-4 with only one call.  Is
> this feature planned, and if so what is the current progress?

This is a planned feature for catalyst 3.x, which I have started work on, but
it's not ready for use yet.

> When catalyst is building a stage, is there a way to execute a script
> after catalyst has entered the chroot environment to do something like
> mount tmpfs on /var/tmp/portage?

No. However, I'm entertaining the idea for catalyst 3.x.

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Andrew Gaffney                                 http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
Gentoo Linux Developer            Catalyst/Genkernel + Release Engineering Lead