Matt Rose wrote: > Just as an aside, when I tried to build my own customized distribution, > I gave up on following what scant documentation was available (mainly on > the wiki) and just read the source for documentation. I highly > recommend it if you can read python. > > The failure point seems to be familiar, and I'm pretty sure that it's a > CentOS patch to anaconda that's causing the problem. Thanks for > reminding me to submit this to the CentOS guys. > > In anaconda-centos-splittree_allow_missing_RPMSdir.patch there is a > patch that changes this line: > > > - p = os.popen('find %s/ -type f -not -name .discinfo' % self.dist_dir, 'r') > > to this line > > + p = os.popen('find %s/ -type f -not -name .discinfo -not -name *.rpm' % self.dist_dir, 'r') > > > which breaks on my machine. I honestly have no idea how CentOS builds > with this patch, unless they're using a weird version of find. > > I changed the line to this: > > + p = os.popen('find %s/ -type f -not -name .discinfo -not -name \'*.rpm\'' % self.dist_dir, 'r') > > > And that got things working again > > HTH. Let me know if this works. Are there any CentOS developers on > this list who can tell me how to submit a patch? > > Matt Hi Matt, I'm not one of the CentOS developers, but think I can give you some directions. CentOS has a bugtracker here: <http://bugs.centos.org/my_view_page.php> You can create an issue there. And maybe additionally a note to centos-devel@xxxxxxxxxx? Cheers, Niels
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