From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LnchQ-00070w-9o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:52:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 88076E0323; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:52:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta31.charter.net (mta31.charter.net [216.33.127.82]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 565C8E0323 for ; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:52:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from imp10 ([10.20.200.10]) by mta31.charter.net (InterMail vM.7.09.01.00 201-2219-108-20080618) with ESMTP id <20090328175150.UKKA2647.mta31.charter.net@imp10> for ; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:51:50 -0400 Received: from agaffney.org ([71.81.81.248]) by imp10 with charter.net id Yhrp1b00J5MTQ6X05hrpeW; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:51:50 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.10] (kagome [192.168.0.10]) by agaffney.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72BC71E0002 for ; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:51:44 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <49CE63B0.7000100@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:51:44 -0500 From: Andrew Gaffney User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090322) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] GSOC: Making the cluster LiveCD bootable from USB References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 20bfbc38-110b-4191-95d4-b32d523d9db1 X-Archives-Hash: 97ed5c0304cf649b6ddc2f8e5bb81812 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. -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Genkernel + Release Engineering Lead