[Fedora-livecd-list] livecd-tools-015 released

[Jerry Vonau]

Patrice Guay wrote:
> Jerry Vonau wrote:
>> Patrice Guay wrote:
>>> Patrice Guay wrote:
>>>> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>>>>> I've just pushed livecd-tools-015 to the repository and am building 
>>>>> the
>>>>> package for tomorrow's rawhide.  You can also grab the tarball from
>>>>> http://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/livecd
>>>>>
>>>>> At this point, the feature flow for Fedora 9 should be pretty much
>>>>> finished.  There's still some things to help improve the user 
>>>>> experience
>>>>> around the persistence support, but it seems to be working nicely.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I tested livecd-tools-015 under CentOS 5. Here are some the little 
>>>> problems
>>>> I encountered so far:
>>>>
>>>> To make isomd5sum optional, it should not be invoked in every case 
>>>> (live.py,
>>>> line 256).
>>>>
>>>> At line 200 of livecd-iso-to-disk, it would be better to test the 
>>>> existence
>>>> of the $overlaysizemb variable before evaluating if it is greater 
>>>> than 2047MB.
>>>> In certain circumstances (vfat usbkey, overlaysizemb undefined) this 
>>>> error
>>>> message is displayed:
>>>>
>>>> /usr/bin/livecd-iso-to-disk: line 200: [: : integer expression expected
>>>>
>>> I just found that the iso images created with livecd-tools-015 under 
>>> CentOS 5
>>> don't boot correctly:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>> ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe
>>> Red Hat nash version 5.1.19.6 starting
>>> mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
>>> setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
>>> setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
>>> setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
>>> switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
>>> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>>>
>>> I still can't figure this one. Even a minimal iso image displays this 
>>> behavior.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Patrice
>>
>> Think you'll need to use mkinitrd-6.0.34-1 to work with 
>> livecd-tools-015, as mayflower is now part of the mkinitrd package.
>> I'm not sure if there is an updated mkinitrd package for anything but 
>> F9. Might have better luck with version 14 in your environment.
>>
>> Jerry
>>
> Then mkinitrd >= 6.0.31 (the version where mkliveinitrd was added) is a 
> requirement for livecd-tools-015. This should be added to the
> SPEC file.

That is going to hurt non-fedora users until mkinitrd catches up in 
their distro. Well, just thinking all is not lost, it appears that the 
revisor group has made mayflower available as a standalone rpm for EL-5. 
You could repackage it with a provides: mkinitrd, and a symlink from 
mayflower to mkinitrd. You'd need to use your own repo to get the 
package into your config. Just some ideas to toss around.

Jerry