[Fedora-livecd-list] Re: Proposed patches for livecd/EL-5 branch

[Larry Brigman]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Wart <wart at kobold.org> wrote:
> Larry Brigman wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Bryan Kearney <bkearney at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>> Alan Pevec wrote:
>>>>> yes, sorry if I wasn't clear, only backports go to EPEL CVS
>>>> OK. Great. I am working remotely for a while without access to a EL system
>>>> and I am running rawhide on my laptop for quite sometime. The connection is
>>>> decent but not enough to start downloading new complete images easily so
>>>> can't really test this at the moment but you can go ahead and commit those
>>>> changes if you (or others) have tested that the following works correctly:
>>>>
>>>> * Create a live cd image
>>>> * Use livecd-iso-to-disk script to convert the image into a bootable live
>>>> USB
>>>> * image-creator creates a ext3 image
>>>
>>> I executed the first 2 using the attached kickstart file. I got a few
>>> warnings at boot up, but the images do work. Note.. the second one I did
>>> running the livecd-iso-to-disk from an F9 machine.
>>>
>>
>> I tried this on my Centos5.2 box.  I have some issues with the build.
>> I have NIS authentication enabled on my box and when I build
>> it somehow disables the authentication to the point that my desktop environment
>> is non-functional.
>
> Sound like you might be getting bit by this:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457697
>
It looks like its going to bite me on RHEL5/CentOS5 as the repos don't
have access to that new of
a version of authconfig.