Thank you! That was very helpful information. - Martin On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:55 AM, Gordon Messmer <yinyang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Martin Schiøtz wrote: >> >> Does somebody know what's going with the revisor project? >> >> The mailing list revisor-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx does not seem to work. > > The lists were moved to revisor-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx this afternoon. > > http://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/revisor-users > >> I have been trying to build CentOS and Fedora on Fedora 9 and 10 with >> revisor for some time now with no succes at all. I have been trying >> different versions of revisor and different kinds builds (with CentOS >> and Fedora) on both Fedora 9 and 10. The result is alway some kind of >> error doing the beginning of the install process of the builded CD or >> DVD images. > > Apparently there are issues with different versions of squashfs in new > Fedora releases and CentOS 5. You can use "mock" to create a centos 5 > chroot and run revisor from there, which I'm told will work. I've quoted > Jeroen's more detailed directions at the end of this message. > > Since the move, there's already been a post to the list about problems > composing Fedora 10, and I'm hoping to see a resolution. > >> Has anybody have any succes building images with revisor lately? > > Not yet. I've been talking to the author about similar problems. For the > moment, I'm just composing the install trees and then using the > vmlinuz/initrd/install.img from the distribution. > > > > > ------ > > The nasty thing between a (recent) Fedora station composing EL5 > installation or live media is the version mismatch between squashfs. > > I very much doubt this is ever going to be solved, but you can run > revisor in a mock chroot: > > # yum install mock > $ mock -r epel-5-i386 init > $ mock -r epel-5-i386 install comps-extras createrepo rhpl pykickstart \ > ~ livecd-tools anaconda-runtime squashfs-tools \ > ~ busybox-anaconda notify-python usermode \ > ~ pam python automake intltool gettext \ > ~ desktop-file-utils glib2-devel gcc \ > ~ cobbler koan deltarpm pygtk pygtk2-libglade \ > ~ gnome-python2-gconf system-config-kickstart jigdo \ > ~ livecd-tools python-virtinst git > > $ mock -r epel-5-i386 shell > > mock-chroot> git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/revisor > mock-chroot> cd revisor > mock-chroot> git checkout --track -b EL-5 origin/EL-5 > mock-chroot> autoreconf && ./configure > mock-chroot> make install > mock-chroot> revisor --cli [options] > > ^ This is what I'm testing now, and it seems to work. > > Kind regards, > > Jeroen van Meeuwen > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
