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Hi everyone, |
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I just did a fairly major reworking of the LiveCD stuff in catalyst, to |
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make things a bit cleaner. There are quite a few changes all over the |
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place, and here's a summary: |
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livecd-stage3 has been deprecated and merged into livecd-stage2. This |
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simplifies quite a bit of catalyst code. It makes a successful build of |
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a livecd several minutes faster, as a huge tarball doesn't need to be |
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bzip2 compressed and then unpacked. |
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the archscripts and runscripts have been reworked. The default runscript |
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and x86 archscript on CVS have been updated and _are working_ (I built |
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an x86 livecd on amd64 that booted in vmware.) |
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The archscript and runscript are now somewhat leaner. |
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examples/livecd/x86 contain _working_ example spec files for livecd |
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building. You can use them as-is, as I've added a tweak to catalyst so |
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it will look for files with non-absolute pathnames in the current |
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working directory (so that "boot/kernel/gentoo/config: |
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examples/livecd/x86/foo.config" works just fine if you run catalyst from |
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the cvs root.) Just unmask baselayout-r4, gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.1-r1 |
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and the latest genkernel in your snapshot and everything should work |
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fine. |
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the various parts of the runscript/archscript have been renamed, and |
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some parts have been combined and/or deprecated. We now have the |
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following, which run in the order specified: |
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preclean - prep livecd environment, do a bit of cleaning |
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kernel - build kernel |
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bootloader - configure bootloader |
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clean - clean up with chroots unmounted |
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cdfs - prepare cd filesystem (loopback, zisofs, etc.) |
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Also, USE="livecd" is now enabled in the x86 livecd spec files, and |
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catalyst has been tweaked so that baselayout is re-emergeable when it's |
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listed in livecd/packages. baselayout is working. It certainly needs |
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more work (saw 2 livecd bugs -- one is that it's trying to calculate |
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module deps on the read-only fs, and the other that "reboot" doesn't |
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work correctly. These aren't particularly hard to fix.) |
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I should have docs and a quick tutorial online sometime tomorrow. To |
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Weeve and others who have started work on LiveCD stuff: sorry for these |
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late changes. I will work on getting the sparc64 example livecd scripts |
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fully updated by tomorrow. These changes should definitely be "worth it" |
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in the long-run. |
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Regards, |
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Daniel |
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