On 21/02/08 05:40, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 21:38 +0100, lurker wrote: >> genkernel fails to add busybox with cpio (this is with genkernel-3.4.9 >> and catalyst-2.0.6_pre6): > > Please try catalyst-2.0.6_pre8, which is pretty new and should work just > fine for whatever you need. Also, check out genkernel-3.4.10_pre3, > which I literally just added to the tree. > >> Also, my system runs stable amd64 Gentoo, but I run catalyst in a i686 >> chroot to protect my main system. Could that have anything to do with this? > > Ehh, this very well could be causing you all kinds of problems.
Alright, but what (and why) exactly? I used this setup flawlessly for months before this error came out of nowhere. I'm not sure what I did for it to start appearing in the first place. > Since catalyst does all of its building in "storedir" > or /var/tmp/catalyst, by default. In fact, it won't do anything outside > of /var/tmp/catalyst, and then each target is built in a chroot, also. > So, building a typical package with default settings, you end up > extracting to /var/tmp/catalyst/tmp, then chrooting into there, before > anything else is done. > > Again, it is safe to run on your main install. The only files it cares > about from your running system are all in /etc/catalyst > or /var/tmp/catalyst and nowhere else, unless you configure it to do so. When I set up that chroot I didn't know that catalyst was able to generate x86 stages from amd64 systems, so that was my reason for creating it. I will install catalyst and genkernel on my main system instead and work from there, and if that fails upgrading to the latest versions. But even if that fixes it, I would very much like to know what was going on. From my debugging I have pretty much confirmed that it's that find/cpio call that fails, but I cannot grasp why at all. Few bugs have left me this perplexed. -- gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
