Re: [gentoo-releng] ppc bootable iso bugfix

[John Davis <zhen@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 02:21, Pieter Van den Abeele wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here's why a good release cycle is needed:
> 
> We have started QA on live environment and kernel of the 2004.1 release 
> well in advance (even before the official releng date). I had 
> everything ready to be uploaded a week ago. Livecd booted ok (released 
> as _rc3 for testing). The only problem discovered was a missing /dev 
> directory on the stages (catalyst bug).
> 
> I did a cvs update to get the fix for this problem and rerolled the 
> stages. Until here everything fine. I noticed I had forgotten vim on 
> the older livecd, so I chrooted in it the stage1 and emerged vim 
> manually. I reran the stage2 and uploaded the result, assuming the cd 
> would be fine.
> 
> Apparently the stage2 was modified by the cvs update too, and added a 
> bunch of x86 rc-scripts to the default runlevel. These scripts called 
> for the x86 only 'hwsetup' (which gave an ugly error), tried 'detecting 
> the processor of the user' (which didn't work), tried loading APM bios 
> stuff (ppc has no BIOS)...
> 
> I am rebuilding the mini install and install cds (manually modified 
> catalyst to del instead of add the rc-scripts), updated versions 
> available today. Please note that in my REMARKS file in the catalyst 
> main directory, I already stated months ago that it was not a good idea 
> to assume all archs would use the same rc-scripts.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Pieter Van den Abeele
> 
> 
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> gentoo-releng@gentoo.org mailing list

Pieter - 
This is definitely a problem :/ Talk to agriffis about it as it sounds
like a baselayout bug - if there are any Catayst bugs that need fixing,
let me know and I will do it ASAP.

Cheers,
//zhen
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John Davis
Gentoo Linux Developer
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~zhen>

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