[gentoo-releng] ppc bootable iso bugfix

[gentoo-releng] ppc bootable iso bugfix

[Pieter Van den Abeele]

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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Re: [gentoo-releng] ppc bootable iso bugfix

[John Davis]

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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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