On 8/19/05, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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I'm not successful, yet. Looks like buildinstall is able to create
the complete disc1, but the generated initrd does not contain the
xfs.ko module. I've verified that the kernel files copied into
$DISTDIR/i386/CentOS/RPMS/ contain the xfs module.
buildinstall generated a few errors:
Going to run buildinstall again
Building images...
Assembling package list...
Expanding text packages...
Expanding graphical packages...
retrieving timezones
ln: creating symbolic link
`/tmp/treedir.8894/instimage/etc/joe/picorc' to `jpicorc': No such
file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link
`/tmp/treedir.8894/instimage/etc/joe/emacsrc' to `jmacsrc': No such
file or directory
Creating nsswitch.conf
Fixing up /etc/man.config to point into /mnt/sysimage
Running mkfontdir...
/tmp/treedir.8894/instimage/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/*/: opendir: No
such file or directory
Getting pango modules
mv: cannot stat
`/tmp/treedir.8894/instimage/usr/bin/pango-querymodules*': No such
file or directory
/scratch/fong/centos-4.1-rebuild/i386/buildinstall.tree.8881/upd-instroot:
line 940: /tmp/treedir.8894/instimage/etc/pango/pango.modules: No such
file or directory
/scratch/fong/centos-4.1-rebuild/i386/buildinstall.tree.8881/upd-instroot:
line 944: /tmp/treedir.8894/instimage/etc/pango/pangorc: No such file
or directory
Getting gtk2 input method modules
mv: cannot stat
`/tmp/treedir.8894/instimage/usr/bin/gtk-query-immodules-2.0*': No
such file or directory
/usr/sbin/chroot: cannot run command
`/usr/bin/gtk-query-immodules-2.0': No such file or directory
Getting gtk2 gdk-pixbuf loaders
mv: cannot stat
`/tmp/treedir.8894/instimage/usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders*': No
such file or directory
/usr/sbin/chroot: cannot run command
`/usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders': No such file or directory
Scrubbing trees... /tmp/treedir.8894/image-template
mv: cannot stat
`/tmp/treedir.8894/image-template/usr/sbin/busybox.anaconda': No such
file or directory
ARCH=i386
...
...
USER=root
_=/tmp/treedir.8894/image-template/usr/bin
p=/tmp/treedir.8894/image-template
Scrubbing trees... /tmp/treedir.8894/instimage
cp: cannot stat `/tmp/treedir.8894/instimage/boot/memtest*': No such
file or directory
mv: cannot stat
`/tmp/treedir.8894/instimage/usr/sbin/busybox.anaconda': No such file
or directory
ARCH=i386
...
...
_=/tmp/treedir.8894/instimage/usr/bin
p=/tmp/treedir.8894/instimage
Compressing .mo files in stage2 images...
Creating fontconfig cache
Creating debug dir
Patching python library...
/scratch/fong/centos-4.1-rebuild
Removing unused python files in hdimage... Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 356, in ?
import signal, traceback, string, isys, iutil, time
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 18, in ?
import _isys
ImportError: libbogl.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such
file or directory
find: usr/lib/booty: No such file or directory
done.
Cleaning ramdisk install images...
ln: creating symbolic link
`/tmp/treedir.8894/instimage/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled' to
`/tmp': No such file or directory
...
...
cannot find package kernel-BOOT in path
/scratch/fong/centos-4.1-rebuild/i386/CentOS/RPMS
kernel-BOOT does not exist for i586 -- using kernel package
unpacking /scratch/fong/centos-4.1-rebuild/i386/CentOS/RPMS/kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.i586.rpm.i586
Building i586 initrd-everything.img
Wrote /tmp/makebootdisk.tree.15542 (3052k compressed, 2275k free)
Building isolinux directory
cpio: /scratch/fong/centos-4.1-rebuild/i386/isolinux/./syslinux.cfg
not created: newer or same age version exists
cpio: /scratch/fong/centos-4.1-rebuild/i386/isolinux/./syslinux-splash.png
not created: newer or same age version exists
/scratch/fong/centos-4.1-rebuild/i386/buildinstall.tree.8881/mk-images.i386:
line 29: pngtopnm: command not found
/usr/bin/ppmtolss16: stdin is not a PNM file at /usr/bin/ppmtolss16 line 215.
/scratch/fong/centos-4.1-rebuild/i386/buildinstall.tree.8881/mk-images:
Failed to create splash.lss
Writing .discinfo file
timestamp not specified; using the current time
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/splittree.py", line 455, in ?
logfile = timber.main()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/splittree.py", line 379, in main
self.createSplitDirs()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/splittree.py", line 228, in createSplitDirs
os.makedirs("%s-disc%d/%s/RPMS" % (self.dist_dir, i, self.product_path))
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/os.py", line 154, in makedirs
mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 17] File exists:
'/scratch/fong/centos-4.1-rebuild/i386/-disc1/CentOS/RPMS'
What am I missing now? Any help is appreciated.
