pungi fails in the createiso stage

[Joel Andres Granados]

Hi list:

Been working on pungi quite a bit and while I was testing some stuff it 
showed some strange behaviour.  In my box it stops in the createiso 
stage when `mkisofs` is called.  The error messages states that there is 
no isolinux directory ( and when I go look for it where its suppose to 
be... its not there :)
To make sure that it was not what I had done I downloaded a new tar file 
and installed it in my box.  To my surprise it showed the same behavior.
I looked at pungi and the anaconda-runtime scripts which I suspect are 
the cause of all this.  To get a better look at things I stopped pungi 
just before executing the buildinstall command and executed it with the 
--debug option to see what came out.  A bunch of messages popped out ( I 
will list just a small portion):

/.../upd-instroot: line 989: /.../fixmtime.py: No such file or directory
/.../upd-instroot: line 989: /.../fixmtime.py: No such file or directory
cat: /.../lang-table*: No such file or directory
/.../upd-instroot: line 1011: cd: /.../locale: No such file or directory
These where the first ones.  There are more but I think the root of the 
problem is here.

I looked in the anaconda-runtime scripts for the bug with no success.  
Finally I changed pungies yum repository to point to a repository that I 
had  lying around for some time (the repository had 
anaconda-11.2.0.57-1.x86_64.rpm and 
anaconda-runtime-11.2.0.57-1.x86_64.rpm they were old versions ).  It 
worked like a charm.
 FYI, the repository that I was using for my previous tests was 
"mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=x86_64"

So I diffed the upd-insroot from the 11.2.0.57-1.x86_64 version with the 
11.2.0.66-1.x86_64 one and IMHO found no change that would give the 
behavior that I'm experiencing.
Anybody else in this situation???
Comments greatly appreciated
Regards

[Jesse Keating]

On Wednesday 30 May 2007 12:18:29 Joel Andres Granados wrote:
> FYI, the repository that I was using for my previous tests was
> "mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=x
> 86_64"
>
> So I diffed the upd-insroot from the 11.2.0.57-1.x86_64 version with the
> 11.2.0.66-1.x86_64 one and IMHO found no change that would give the

It's probably something else in the package stack.  Some other earlier part of 
buildinstall is most likely failing to produce the expected output and 
upd-instroot is just noticing that.  Rawhide now has Fedora 8 content, all 
the post-f7 builds so it is quite unsurprising that things failed.

[Joel Andres Granados]

> It's probably something else in the package stack.  Some other earlier part of 
> buildinstall is most likely failing to produce the expected output and 
> upd-instroot is just noticing that.  Rawhide now has Fedora 8 content, all 
> the post-f7 builds so it is quite unsurprising that things failed.

I ran a yum update,  everything seems to be back to normal :)
regards.