[gentoo-catalyst] Creating an iso image with no snapshot

[gentoo-catalyst] Creating an iso image with no snapshot

[Tom Stellard]

I noticed that when I build a liveCD, the portage snapshot I used to
build the stages is included in the iso file.  Is there a config value
I can set so that the snapshot is not included in the iso?

-Tom

Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Creating an iso image with no snapshot

[Steve Dommett]

On Friday 07 August 2009, Tom Stellard wrote:
> I noticed that when I build a liveCD, the portage snapshot I used to
> build the stages is included in the iso file.  Is there a config value
> I can set so that the snapshot is not included in the iso?
>
> -Tom


Perhaps livecd/rm?

An example from the Gentoo releng 2008.0 spec files:
livecd/rm:
        /etc/*-
        /etc/*.old
        /root/.viminfo
        /var/log/*.log
        /usr/share/genkernel/pkg/x86/*.bz2

Cheers,
  Steve.

Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Creating an iso image with no snapshot

[Tom Stellard]

On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 06:01:39AM +0100, Steve Dommett wrote:
> On Friday 07 August 2009, Tom Stellard wrote:
> > I noticed that when I build a liveCD, the portage snapshot I used to
> > build the stages is included in the iso file.  Is there a config value
> > I can set so that the snapshot is not included in the iso?
> >
> > -Tom
> 
> 
> Perhaps livecd/rm?
> 
> An example from the Gentoo releng 2008.0 spec files:
> livecd/rm:
>         /etc/*-
>         /etc/*.old
>         /root/.viminfo
>         /var/log/*.log
>         /usr/share/genkernel/pkg/x86/*.bz2
> 
> Cheers,
>   Steve.
>
I think the snapshot is being added after the stage has been built.
The snapshot I am trying to remove is not installed in the root directory.
If you mount the iso file there will 3 directories: docs, isolinux,
snapshot.  The snapshot directory contains the portage snapshot, which
is the one I am trying to remove.

-Tom

Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Creating an iso image with no snapshot

[Andrew Gaffney]

On 08/06/2009 11:34 PM, Tom Stellard wrote:
> I noticed that when I build a liveCD, the portage snapshot I used to
> build the stages is included in the iso file.  Is there a config value
> I can set so that the snapshot is not included in the iso?

Use generic-livecd instead of release-livecd for livecd/type. The release-livecd 
is intended for use by releng, and you'll get all the "automatic" behaviors that 
releng expects.

-- 
Andrew Gaffney                                 http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
Gentoo Linux Developer            Catalyst/Genkernel + Release Engineering Lead