kadischi on 2006-02-01 rawhide

[Andy Burns]

Ok, after tonight's meeting, I said I'd check the status of kadischi 
with current anaconda, building a rawhide cd *on* rawhide.

I checked out kadischi from CVS
configured, built and installed it no problems as per the wiki instructions.

I have a local mirror of rawhide, on a machine called "shuttle" so 
attempted to built from it as follows

# kadischi http://shuttle/fc5/x86_64 my.iso

Starting kadischi...
Parsing command line arguments
Checking UID
Using buildstamp file /etc/kadischi/buildstamp.
Product path set to Fedora.
Now we are going to try to validate your repository (for now, only http, 
ftp and local repositories can be checked)
URL http://shuttle/fc5/x86_64 contacted. OK
URL http://shuttle/fc5/x86_64/Fedora contacted. OK
URL http://shuttle/fc5/x86_64/Fedora/base contacted. OK
URL http://shuttle/fc5/x86_64/Fedora/RPMS contacted. OK
Repository seems to be OK.
Checking required packages
Looking for config file
Loadnig config file options

   ***  running anaconda  ***

Error bad argument --livecd: unknown option

:
   ***  Fatal error: anaconda returned non zero (65280) exit code. 
Aborting execution.

Cleaning up temporary files...
Done.

Chitlesh seemed to think that no anaconda patches were now required,
but I'm on today's version ...

# yum info anaconda

Name   : anaconda
Arch   : x86_64
Version: 10.91.11
Release: 1

but this is exactly the same point I got to on 2006-01-08, I saw in 
changelog for anaconda about bypassing the partitioning screen, but that 
seems to be only in text mode

so I applied the anaconda/flags patches

# patch -b /usr/sbin/anaconda

/usr/local/share/kadischi/patches/anaconda.patch
patching file /usr/sbin/anaconda
Hunk #1 FAILED at 400.
Hunk #2 succeeded at 510 with fuzz 2 (offset 16 lines).
Hunk #3 succeeded at 1154 (offset 22 lines).
1 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file /usr/sbin/anaconda.rej

the failing hunk is the same that failed when I tried earlier, it is the 
section that adds "livecd" to the option list, the array has changed 
enought that patch won't apply it, so I added it by hand, I'll amend the 
patch to apply cleanly and post it to bugzilla (and cvs later)

# patch -b /usr/lib/anaconda/flags.py

/usr/local/share/kadischi/patches/flags.py.patch
patching file /usr/lib/anaconda/flags.py
Hunk #1 succeeded at 41 with fuzz 2 (offset 1 line).

that applied cleanly, so tried again this time in text mode

# kadischi --text http://shuttle/fc5/x86_64 my.iso

this time at least anaconda starts, gives me the betanag and country 
selection screens, but still hits the partitioning screen, sorry this 
isn't going to paste very well if you've not using fixed spacing, but 
you get the gist.

┌────────────────────────┤ Partitioning Type ├─────────────────────────┐
│                                                                      │
│ Installation requires partitioning of your hard drive.  By default,  │
│ a partitioning layout is chosen which is reasonable for most users.  │
│ You can either choose to use this or create your own.                │
│                                                                      │
│ Remove all partitions on selected drives and create default layout.  │
│ Remove linux partitions on selected drives and create default layout.│
│ Use free space on selected drives and create default layout.         │
│ Create custom layout.                                                │
│                                                                      │
│       Which drive(s) do you want to use for this installation?       │
│                                  ↑                                   │
│                                  ▮                                   │
│                                                                      │
│                          ┌────┐   ┌──────┐                           │
│                          │ OK │   │ Back │                           │
│                          └────┘   └──────┘                           │
│                                                                      │
│                                                                      │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

since there are no drives on the list you can't select one. so when you 
continue it gets an error that you didn't select one

┌──────────────────┤ Error ├───────────────────┐
│                                              │
│ You need to select at least one hard drive   │
│ to have Fedora Core installed onto.          │
│                                              │
│                   ┌────┐                     │
│                   │ OK │                     │
│                   └────┘                     │
│                                              │
│                                              │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────┘

jasper have you got further than this? If so what version are you 
working with, are you on rawhide, building a rawhide CD?

I wonder where the "rumour" that you no longer need the patch came from? 
there's certianly no mention of "--livecd" in anaconda without it.

Anyway, enough for tonight ....


Andy.

[Chitlesh GOORAH]

>  /usr/local/share/kadischi/patches/anaconda.patch
>  patching file /usr/sbin/anaconda
>  Hunk #1 FAILED at 400.
>  Hunk #2 succeeded at 510 with fuzz 2 (offset 16 lines).
>  Hunk #3 succeeded at 1154 (offset 22 lines).
>  1 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file /usr/sbin/anaconda.rej 
look for my mail on FC5T2: anaconda makes my screen flicker!!
Ive attached a patch to solve this. You can give it a try.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-livecd-list/2006-January/msg00263....

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http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

[Andy Burns]

Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:

>  look for my mail on FC5T2: anaconda makes my screen flicker!!
>  Ive attached a patch to solve this. You can give it a try.
>  https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-livecd-list/2006-January/msg00263.... 
OK, that's a pretty simple one to fix "by eye" anyway, just a question 
of keeping the patches up with speed with anaconda, the partitioning 
screen is the "big issue" for me ... last time I tried adding extra

    dispatch.skipStep("xxxxxx" , permanent = 1)

sections using more guesswork than skill but didn't get anywhere, I'll 
wait to see what Jasper can tell me ...

[J. Hartline]

Andy Burns wrote:

>  jasper have you got further than this? If so what version are you 
>  working with, are you on rawhide, building a rawhide CD?
>
>  I wonder where the "rumour" that you no longer need the patch came 
>  from? there's certianly no mention of "--livecd" in anaconda without it.
The Anaconda patches in CVS are for Fedora Core 4 Anaconda.
If you are using FC5t2 Anaconda or RAWHIDE's Anaconda
You need to remove the --livecd option from kadischi.py.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=123903

What I am currently doing here locally, is alleviating
a few problems I've come across.

The livecd-mkinitrd.sh also needs modified to include some missing 
libraries for /bin/ash.
I have patches for this also.

These things I've fixed and I have patches for, though they are simply 
temporary fixes.

I've built a few RAWHIDE discs so far, and they all work great, even 
with the quick hack job
on the few files. Give me a day ro two and I'll write up a mail, and 
attach teh patches with instructions.
Just remember it isn't anything fancy, and it won't be merged into 
Kadischi curent codebase.
Besides this I'm going to do a little more digging around, and see if we 
can't get our
cdrom:// method working for users using DVD media, this is important as 
is Anaconda rootpath's partitioning.
J. Hartline