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On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 20:41 +0000, Nelson Batalha wrote: |
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> Oh, I thought you ment something else. |
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> A few things that, even if not causing it, could be tried: |
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> - Try a .config for a version that matches your kernel, or call oldconfig. |
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> Yours is 2.6.17 and unless you masked all untill that version, you're |
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> getting a 2.6.19 right? Not sure what genkernel does then. |
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It produces a somewhat working CD. In the case of Serial ATA, the |
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naming changed in the kernel between the two versions, so you won't have |
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*any* SATA support if you're using a 2.6.17 kernel configuration. |
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> - Just try "livecd/type: generic-livecd". It's the only one to be used by |
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> us, non releng people, and who don't know "exactly" what it does. You can |
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> always make a good "diet" with rm/empty/unmerge. |
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Well, gentoo-release-* make changes to the output. They ignore certain |
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options you've defined and replace them with Release Engineering |
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standardized ways of doing things. At some point in the future, they'll |
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be diverging even more, since gentoo-release-minimal and |
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gentoo-release-universal are likely to be re-worked to use busybox by |
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default at some point in the upcoming development branch of catalyst, |
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after 2.0.x goes stable. |
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> >(I got it from their .spec - file). |
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Remember that our spec files are made to work with our snapshot and |
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produce our output. As soon as you start changing any of the many |
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variables (snapshot, profile, seeds, etc) you make changes you're not |
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aware you're making and can break the build in numerous ways. Our spec |
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files are really provided for our own use and not really for general |
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consumption. They're great as a guide, but you need to read the example |
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specs that ship with catalyst and are documented. The example specs are |
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the current authoritative source of documentation for catalyst and |
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explain each spec file key. If there's one that you feel isn't |
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documented well enough, then feel free to file a bug and we'll fix it. |
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> So did I :S. Did you update the latest genkernel to stable on the snapshot |
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> you're using? |
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This is another issue as you get closer to release times. Certain |
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versions of catalyst require certain versions of genkernel. You'll want |
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to be using 3.4.7 (and actually, 3.4.7-r1 once I add it to the tree on |
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Monday). |
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