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If you're trying to build a program from a tar file and install
it, then your best option is going to be to go the rpm route.
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the firefox add-ins and settings in a script much less put WEP
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Thanks Jeremy. FWIW, I'm working off the rawhide version...
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Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 12:07 -0600, Tim Wood wrote:
I've updated a kickstart to F9 and the Builds have been failing. I'll
skip the details about googling, etc. Here's the command output,
removing most
making
any changes you wanted. Just not sure if it's overkill.
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I'm fond of using that script to wave a wand or three ;-)
if [[ -f /home/fedora/.init_script.sh ]]; then
sh /home/fedora/.init_script.sh
fi
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Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 13:28 -0600, Tim Wood wrote:
Jeremy Katz wrote:
But at the same time, I am considering adding
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they develop a LiveCD or an appliance.
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I've found that (if I don't want SELinux), I have to do this to
the kickstart.
Do what? Did you forget to write something here?
My fingers didn't keep up, did they :-) Look through the package list
for anything that looks like an selinux package (usually the names begin
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of the equivalent
files within the Live CD's already created ext3 system.
Thanks,
Todd
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There really isn't a great tutorial for things beyond the basics
(although if someone knows of one, please correct me). The
mailing list archive is a good place
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the foodchain would be removed... even
if included in kickstarts lower in the foodchain.
Hopefully that clarifies my thought. If not, let me know.
Tim
Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
Tim Wood wrote:
Cool. Could the patch be extended to our bits and pieces so they'd
do the same thing?
I
Of course, I should mention that something of the things I included in
my list are already over-rideable. The list is just to illustrate my
request.
Tim
Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
Tim Wood wrote:
Cool. Could the patch be extended to our bits and pieces so they'd
do the same thing?
I
that make
the standard kickstarts unusable. What's he's proposing appears to move
some (all?) of those problems up the chain several spots.
Tim Wood
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 17:30 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
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Includes everything needed to make
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I noticed that. I was proposing something of a compromise. If XFCE and
a limited number of languages would work, it should be fairly
straightforward to craft something that's (at least) close to what he wants.
Tim
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 18:00 -0600, Tim Wood wrote
into two parts: the parts before post and the post/post
nochroot sections
Mmmm useful...
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was tired of people asking and it was trivial to do. But the
testing they get is nearly none
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In a slightly more fun posting, my LiveCD workstation LiveCD is now
being used to generate LiveCDs. Ah the geekly joy of massive
recursivity. Since Thunderbird's spell checker doesn't like
recursivity I may have a name ;-) Anyway, the kickstart isn't quite
ready for public consumption, but
)
You understood the information... the Portuguese isn't close enough to
the Spanish for me to be sure what your question is. But, I'll try and
help if I can.
Tim
2008/3/4, Tim Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Share the directory with the iso. Then mount the share
not run a LiveCD on that computer and do what Tim
suggests and share the partition where the iso is
located?
Regards,
Antonio
2008/3/4, Tim Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Share the directory with the iso. Then mount the
share on the machine
with usbdisk. I tend to use SAMBA
I'm starting to work on a LiveCD Development LiveCD designed to create
livecd's and (if desired) burn them onto media (cd, usb, etc) ... and
... keep a light footprint.
So far, I'm working with a fork of the XFCE kickstart. I've added
livecd-tools, emacs, wget, curl, samba-client --for
The rawhide version. Is it true that when I do a git clone, I'm
grabbing the head of the tree?
Tim
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 18:27 -0700, Tim Wood wrote:
Actually I haven't been using the git version. I just installed the
git version and built a LiveCD. The errors
I was using the rawhide version. I'm now using one built with git
clone/make install a day or two ago. FWIW... how do I check to see if
I've got that change?
Tim
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 08:54 -0700, Tim Wood wrote:
The rawhide version.
Then I'd definitely check
Actually I haven't been using the git version. I just installed the git
version and built a LiveCD. The errors are identical other than the
creator.py error being in line 661 instead of 655.
Knowing not what a git tip is, I suspect the answer is current config
although I'm always open to
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The LiveCDs I've been trying to create today are all failing. In each
case I'm getting what looks like corrupted rpms from official repositories.
I've forced it to use three different repositories with similar
results All of the RPMs in question are either release or update
fedora 8 rpms.
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Sorry, that should be https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430606
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filesystem at the base of the
LiveCD-Creator disc and the squashfs inside it - right?
Thanks for the quick and sharp replies!
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That's what I get for replying to emails when my brain is fried ;-)
Tim
Asheesh Laroia wrote:
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Tim Wood wrote:
I think you're looking for something like this. If bob had a file
called 'my_file.html' in his home directory, he'd do this to copy it
to the root of the cd
One 'feature' of the minimal is that login is disabled. The kde desktop
is a good starter.
Tim Wood
ltx wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to build a basic Fedora 8 livecd to use as
a vehicle to flash a card I am working on. The flash
utility works from linux running from the hard drive
so
... but
login is disabled /usr/share/livecd-tools/livecd-fedora-minimal.ks
Tim Wood
Simon Ritchie wrote:
I have the same problem, using Fedora core 8. While attempting to
build the minimal livecd, livecd-creator hangs. My Linux box freezes
up. If I can log in and get a command window
...
Tim
Tim Wood wrote:
I actually posted a slightly newer email that has a solution that I
thought worked. NetworkManager does have to be disabled. It also
looks like BIND has to be running locally as a caching nameserver (the
default config I believe...). I'm running into a failure to start
installed to handle dhcp. This is
all under F7, but I would guess mostly is applicable to F8.
Hope this helps some.
-Eli
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/ifconfig eth1 10.0.0.1
/sbin/ifconfig eth1 netmask 255.255.255.0
EOF
chmod 755 $path
/sbin/restorecon $path
/sbin/chkconfig --add $script
[... SNIP ...]
Tim Wood wrote:
In my livecd-creator kickstart, I'm trying variants to do one dhcp and
one static eth:
network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0
I'll check that out, too.
Tim
Colin Walters wrote:
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 19:40 -0700, Tim Wood wrote:
I've been (finally) setting up a local Fedora 8 Repository. In the
process, I've discovered that os+updates+development now approaches
20G.
You are aware of the --cache option
Okay, uncle. I can't find documentation on the --cache option. I've
found that you are supposed to pass it a path but no write-up on what is
cached and for how long, etc. What exactly does it do?
Tim
Colin Walters wrote:
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 19:40 -0700, Tim Wood wrote:
I've been
Thanks. That will work. InstantMirror does look more maintainable but
has the downside (at v0.4) that it looks a little early to use as the
basis of real work.
Tim
Colin Walters wrote:
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 10:44 -0700, Tim Wood wrote:
Okay, uncle. I can't find documentation
-0700, Tim Wood wrote:
Okay, uncle. I can't find documentation on the --cache option. I've
found that you are supposed to pass it a path but no write-up on what
is cached and for how long, etc. What exactly does it do?
Basically it's a stupid lookaside cache - if a file is already
a daemon that accepts requests and
manages downloads, etc., as appropriate. So, turning the question
around, maybe something like InstantMirror could become a common
resource utilized by all of these tools?
Tim
Bill Nottingham wrote:
Douglas McClendon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
Tim Wood
tool that only loaded things from an official
repository when it was requested for the first time could be very
useful. Does anyone know of such a creature? If not, would this be
useful to anyone be sides me?
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FWIW, some LiveCDs have an index.htm or index.html file in the root
of the cdrom that holds the readme and links to an html version of
the GPL, etc. Going off memory, there's an autorun dot something
file in the root of many windows cds that is used to automatically
open such
in general, but definitely not the approach to take if
you're going to accidently hit send before you're ready.
On Oct 8, 2007, at 6:12 PM, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 14:37 -0600, Tim Wood wrote:
What's a valid repo
Fedora 7 appears to use sqlite-based metadata
On Oct 8, 2007, at 6:12 PM, Jeremy Katz wrote:
What sort of error are you seeing otherwise?
Generally, if I'm running the current version under rawhide, it just
blows up. When I run the git version on top of F7, it sometimes
works and sometimes doesn't. On the minimal it will go
I've finally gotten everything working again. In the process, I've
discovered several things. Hopefully I'll save someone else some
serious heartburn in running this down. The resemblance to FAQ stuff
is semi-intentional and meant as much for people googling for answers
as anything
Okay... I hit send and then looked at my inbox and there are all
these new messages.
It sounds like I should give another shot at F8 test 3 or rawhide
with the git version of livecd-tools since I'd already noticed
differences in what little I've actually done with livecd-tools (as
Two different recommendations have been posted on what version of
Fedora to use (F7 presumably with livecd-tools 009 vs. rawhide and
livecd-tools from git). Rawhide and git (seems to me) to be a
formula for a very unstable development environment. But, livecd-
tools 009 and F7 seem to be
I've converted a Fedora 8 test 2 system to rawhide, installed livecd-
creator from GIT
* I'm still getting the no repository available to set up error
* I'm also getting a lot of python errors referring to /usr/lib/
python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py.
I'm using
revisor-2.0.4.3-7.fc8 under Fedora 8 Beta 2
revisor-2.0.4.1-2.fc7 under Fedora 7
On Oct 4, 2007, at 12:46 PM, Jonathan Steffan wrote:
Tim Wood wrote:
Revisor blows up randomly. When it blows up it takes far too long to
get a system that works. It usually entails creating a kickstart
Thanks. I thought of that and may do that if my futzing with livecd-
creator doesn't get me there.
Tim
On Oct 4, 2007, at 1:44 PM, Jonathan Steffan wrote:
Tim Wood wrote:
revisor-2.0.4.3-7.fc8 under Fedora 8 Beta 2
revisor-2.0.4.1-2.fc7 under Fedora 7
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji
I had a working system last week with a good kickstart and I was busy
cranking out LiveCDs as I tweaked an RPM for the LiveCD. Then it
blew up. All of the LiveCDs would report bad MBRs. The log files
I'm aware of (revisor, yum and messages in /var/log) reported nothing
of any real
Darn... is the developer spin config/kickstart file in /etc/
revisor/... ?
Tim
On Sep 26, 2007, at 6:34 AM, Andrew Overholt wrote:
* Douglas McClendon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-25
22:29]:
Tim Wood wrote:
I may be rehashing something old, but does the developer spin of
(almost)
8
Sorry... that should have been a rhetorical question. I've got a
sneaking suspicion that I won't have time to hack on something like
this until 8 gets released
On Sep 26, 2007, at 8:05 AM, Andrew Overholt wrote:
* Tim Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-26 10:02]:
Darn... is the developer
I may be rehashing something old, but does the developer spin of
(almost) 8 include Revisor?
Tim
On Sep 25, 2007, at 12:12 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Chris Negus wrote:
I noticed a couple of new live CDs in the test area for Fedora 8.
Does
anyone know what these are:
I just wrote a basic select a scsi or ata device bash script in
zenity. I added /dev/live. Nothing fancy but it should save you a
few minutes.
Tim Wood
TITLE=Set Backup Drive
MESSAGE=Select a drive to use for backups
FLAGS=--list --radiolist
in /etc/revisor/... vs.
files there, notes somewhere else and maybe some custom bash code
somewhere else)
Tim Wood
On Aug 12, 2007, at 10:13 PM, Douglas McClendon wrote:
I have a few changes I'd like to request to mayflower. I'd like to
get some feedback before actually laying down
FWIW... I did an uninstall, archived /etc/revisor, deleted all the
odds and ends (e.g. /src/revisor and the stuff under /var/tmp),
reinstalled and that cleared out enough junk that I was able to
narrow the error down to a short list of things outside of Revsior.
Tim
On Aug 6, 2007, at
Not all of this may be related... but this is strange enough I'm
going to be overly verbose
* I haven't had time to play with revisor in about 3 weeks
* The kickstart I was starting with was a version of one that had
been working successfully in the past. The main change was to remove
Continuing this thought- if MarkMC's dm-snapshot-merging patch was in the
kernel, there could be a button in the live session, such that at any
point
_long after_ the installation, the user could _opt_ to 'fold in' their
live-session modification. (i.e. hitting the button triggers a
Grumble. I'm using mrepo to build my repository. It's great except
that
it seems to ignore the comps.xml file on the source repository.
You should report this issue to Dag then.
Yes... haven't had time to locate his bug reporting page/tool/whatever...
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When I create a traditional kickstart, I'm able to preface a package name
with a dash to not install it. For instance:
@base-x
-linuxwacom
-synaptics
I can't seem to make the same thing work when Revisor is using a kickstart
file. Is there a way to make this work or is the only solution to
The no groups error usually comes from lacking comps.xml in the
repository metadata. Revisor uses that comps to create the list of
Categories and Groups during package selection.
Grumble. I'm using mrepo to build my repository. It's great except that
it seems to ignore the comps.xml file on
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 07:35 -0600, Tim Wood wrote:
Last night I started running Revisor.
What type of media are you creating?
A live cd.
I thought I'd finally gotten all
the config files convinced to play nice.
May we see?
I've attached the three I've modified. sw-gateway-ks-0.0.1.cfg
Last night I started running Revisor. I thought I'd finally gotten all
the config files convinced to play nice. I'm using a repository that
existing on another machine on the same network. I haven't tested this
repository extensively (it's a replacement for a machine that died), but
have used
of the LiveCDs I carry around because they have
this tool or that tool that's useful once every 4 months...
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I added a section to one of the Revisor configs with the short name
development (e.g. [development]). No matter what I did, it was ignored
until I changed that to something else (e.g. [extras]). Is there a config
file that governs what short names are sanctioned or is there a
suggestion/bug
I've (finally) been trying to build a live cd. I've been trying to use
Revisor. After I sorted out some issues so that Fedora played nice with
my repository, Revisor runs and gets to the point where it's trying to
build the cd. And it complains that busybox is a required package. My
repository
or all of the
development rpms to my repository?
Tim Wood wrote:
I've (finally) been trying to build a live cd. I've been trying to use
Revisor. After I sorted out some issues so that Fedora played nice with
my repository, Revisor runs and gets to the point where it's trying to
build
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