On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 13:51 -0700, Fong Vang wrote:
> On 8/19/05, James Pearson <james-p@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Fong Vang wrote:
> > >>
> > >>Rebuilding the installer with and an XFS enabled kernel will result in a
> > >>working installer ... as you've seen, hacking the installer by adding
> > >>modules, doesn't work - that is the main difference ...
> > >
> > >
> > > Makes sense. Thank you for the insight. Could you point to some
> > > document detailing the steps to rebuild the installer (not really sure
> > > what that means).
> >
> > See an earlier post in this thread:
> >
> > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-August/010119.html
> >
> > Basically you need to have the whole distribution (from CDs etc) on
> > line, replace all the various kernel RPMS with the ones from centosplus
> > downloads and add the xfsprogs (and jfsutils and reiserfs) RPMS to the
> > CentOS/RPMS directory, install the anaconda-runtime RPM and run
> > something like the script at http://centos.hughesjr.com/testing/build.sh.txt
>
> I tried to run it, but looks like you need the SRPMS. The script
> doesn't do much error checking.
I don't make mistakes ... just kidding :)
This is the script I use to make the CD ISOs for CentOS 4 ... It isn't
really meant for redistribution (Not that it is a huge secret or
anything, I just never really commented it for distribution).
> The variables are not well commented,
> but I assume BUILDDIR is where the build will happen and DISTDIR is
> the original source is located.
>
correct. $BUILDDIR needs to look like /usr/src/redhat and you need to
have it also be %_topdir in your .rpmmacros. You need all the items you
want to put on the CDs under a $ARCH (i386, x86_64, etc.) directory
under $DISTDIR ... also in your .rpmmacros, the full path to $DISTDIR
needs to be %rpmdbtree ... and $DISTDIR/$ARCH/CentOS/base needs to be %
basedir.
Here is the .rpmmacros that I build with:
http://centos.hughesjr.com/testing/rpmmacros
This also signs the packages with a key named CentOS-4 (which you
probably don't have .... signing the packages is not required, but you
would need to remark out the "rpm --resign" steps if you don't want to
sign.
> Anyway, I guess I'll have to dive into the script and try to figure
> out how it's doing it. BTW, last question. Does it create the
> initrd, kernel, netstg and stage2 images automatically?
>
Yes it will .... And generate all the install images, boot.iso, etc.
> Here's my sample run:
>
> ls: /scratch/fong/centos-4.1-rebuild/SRPMS/comps-4*: No such file or directory
> ls: /scratch/fong/centos-4.1-rebuild/SRPMS/rpmdb-CentOS*: No such file
> or directory
> Starting Build ... - logging to
> /scratch/buildcentos/rpmbuild/build.200508191350.log
> ./build.sh: line 42:
> /scratch/buildcentos/rpmbuild/build.200508191350.log: No such file or
> directory
> cp: missing destination file
> Try `cp --help' for more information.
> cp: missing destination file
> Try `cp --help' for more information.
> rpm: no packages given for install
> rpm: no packages given for install
> Building Comps
> ./build.sh: line 73:
> /scratch/buildcentos/rpmbuild/build.200508191350.log: No such file or
> directory
> ./build.sh: line 80:
> /scratch/buildcentos/rpmbuild/build.200508191350.log: No such file or
> directory
> ./build.sh: line 81:
> /scratch/buildcentos/rpmbuild/build.200508191350.log: No such file or
> directory
> ./build.sh: line 82:
> /scratch/buildcentos/rpmbuild/build.200508191350.log: No such file or
> directory
> ./build.sh: line 83:
> /scratch/buildcentos/rpmbuild/build.200508191350.log: No such file or
> directory
> ./build.sh: line 84:
> /scratch/buildcentos/rpmbuild/build.200508191350.log: No such file or
> directory
> Building Rpmdb
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