[Fedora-livecd-list] failing at my first attempt at liveCD creation

[Jane Dogalt]

--- Tim Wood <tim.wood at datawranglers.com> wrote:

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> >
> > I do have those things available... at least to me.
> > I don't know about the environment that  livecd-creator makes for 
> > itself though.
> > Same things goes for PATH.  I can execute those utilities.
> Strange... I believe livecd-creator uses your PATH.

livecd-creator is doing chroot rpm installs, something that incidentally
selinux is fundamentally flawed in supporting (which is why amongst other
reasons I vote for not setting it as Enforcing by default in a general purpose
distro, but...).

But my selinux complaints asside, the above sounds like sed (and other stuff)
is being used by rpm post install scripts, but not properly installed prior to
being used.  I first guessed from your output that the info package's
postinstall script was using sed, but failing to require it in the rpm
metadata.  So I checked my f9 version, and didn't see a sed invocation in the
post install script for 'info'.  Then I saw you were building an f10/rawhide,
at which point, I think all bets are off.  Try building an f9 livecd on f9, and
use that as a basis for trying to get trickier stuff to work.

I see your comment about using f8 instead of f9.  In that case, I'd try
building an f8 target.  That's not to say that what you are trying shouldn't
work, just that you'll be less likely to encounter bugs (which matters more
when you are first getting started)

(from my f9 livecd-tools, not 100% sure it's there on f8)
/usr/share/livecd-tools/livecd-fedora-8-desktop.ks

-dmc/jdog