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To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Problems with genkernel and busybox
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:19:24
Message-Id: 42AFBA49.9040702@ed-soft.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Problems with genkernel and busybox by Carl Flippin
1 Look if you have star in your spec file. If it's so change it to tar.
2 I had the same problem.
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4 Carl Flippin wrote:
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6 >I never touched genkernel.conf. I will try putting in a debug
7 >statement to dump out the command in question to see what is going on.
8 >Thanks for the pointer.
9 >
10 >Thanks,
11 >Carl Flippin
12 >
13 >On 6/14/05, Zac Medico <zmedico@×××××.com> wrote:
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15 >
16 >>Carl Flippin wrote:
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19 >>>After the kernel compile, however, genkernel craps out saying:
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21 >>>"Could not extract busybox source tarball"
22 >>>
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24 >>>
25 >>That means tar had a nonzero exit status inside /usr/share/genkernel/gen_compile.sh
26 >>
27 >> tar -jxpf ${BUSYBOX_SRCTAR} ||
28 >> gen_die 'Could not extract busybox source tarball!'
29 >>
30 >>You probably changed the busybox settings in genkernel.conf. You need to make sure genkernel can find a good busybox source tarball. The default tarball is /usr/share/genkernel/pkg/busybox-1.00-pre7-losetup-crypto-alpha.tar.bz2
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32 >>Zac
33 >>--
34 >>gentoo-catalyst@g.o mailing list
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