Proposed patches for livecd/EL-5 branch

Hi all,

I have collected few backport patches for EPEL5 livecd, they're at
http://repo.or.cz/w/livecd/EPEL5.git from tag livecd-tools-013-8.1-EPEL5-patches onwards.

Please have a look, they're low risk and work for me. I'd like to push them to
EPEL CVS if no objections.

NB: the last one "add --global-config to use YUM global config" is a new feature
which I'll post here for review shortly:
http://repo.or.cz/w/livecd/EPEL5.git?a=commitdiff;h=65cea964999ac10d5f666...

[Rahul Sundaram]

Alan Pevec wrote:
>  Hi all,
>  
>  I have collected few backport patches for EPEL5 livecd, they're at 
>  http://repo.or.cz/w/livecd/EPEL5.git from tag 
>  livecd-tools-013-8.1-EPEL5-patches onwards.
>  
>  Please have a look, they're low risk and work for me. I'd like to push 
>  them to EPEL CVS if no objections. 
Are these all backported fixes or are you adding more incompatible 
changes like the one below? I would like new features to be reviewed and 
accepted in the HEAD first and then backported to what lives in EPEL.

Rahul

>  
>  NB: the last one "add --global-config to use YUM global config" is a new 
>  feature which I'll post here for review shortly:
>
> http://repo.or.cz/w/livecd/EPEL5.git?a=commitdiff;h=65cea964999ac10d5f666...
>
>

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  Alan Pevec wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have collected few backport patches for EPEL5 livecd, they're at 
> > http://repo.or.cz/w/livecd/EPEL5.git from tag 
> > livecd-tools-013-8.1-EPEL5-patches onwards.
> >
> > Please have a look, they're low risk and work for me. I'd like to push 
> > them to EPEL CVS if no objections.
>  
>  Are these all backported fixes or are you adding more incompatible  
all but last one are backports

>  changes like the one below? I would like new features to be reviewed
> and 
>  accepted in the HEAD first and then backported to what lives in EPEL. 
yes, sorry if I wasn't clear, only backports go to EPEL CVS

[Rahul Sundaram]

Alan Pevec wrote:
>  yes, sorry if I wasn't clear, only backports go to EPEL CVS
OK. Great. I am working remotely for a while without access to a EL 
system and I am running rawhide on my laptop for quite sometime. The 
connection is decent but not enough to start downloading new complete 
images easily so can't really test this at the moment but you can go 
ahead and commit those changes if you (or others) have tested that the 
following works correctly:

* Create a live cd image
* Use livecd-iso-to-disk script to convert the image into a bootable 
live USB
* image-creator creates a ext3 image

All fixes should be in HEAD first because incompatible changes are a 
headache when you add dependencies on them and you get to pick whether 
you want to keep them or move to the EL 6 branch when one gets created 
in the future.

Thanks for working on this.

Rahul

[Bryan Kearney]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  Alan Pevec wrote:
> > yes, sorry if I wasn't clear, only backports go to EPEL CVS
>  
>  OK. Great. I am working remotely for a while without access to a EL 
>  system and I am running rawhide on my laptop for quite sometime. The 
>  connection is decent but not enough to start downloading new complete 
>  images easily so can't really test this at the moment but you can go 
>  ahead and commit those changes if you (or others) have tested that the 
>  following works correctly:
>  
>  * Create a live cd image
>  * Use livecd-iso-to-disk script to convert the image into a bootable 
>  live USB
>  * image-creator creates a ext3 image 

I executed the first 2 using the attached kickstart file. I got a few 
warnings at boot up, but the images do work. Note.. the second one I did 
running the livecd-iso-to-disk from an F9 machine.

Rahul.. what do you normally do for #3?

-- bk


xconfig --startxonboot
timezone  America/New_York
selinux --disable
# Add an rhx repo and an updates repo
repo --name=epel --baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5Server/i386/
repo --name=rhelWS
--baseurl=http://porkchop.devel.redhat.com/released/RHEL-5-Client/U2/i386/os/Workstation/
repo --name=rhelclient
--baseurl=http://porkchop.devel.redhat.com/released/RHEL-5-Client/U2/i386/os/Client/
repo --name=rhelt
--baseurl=http://porkchop.devel.redhat.com/released/RHEL-5-Client/U2/i386/os/VT/

%packages
@gnome-desktop
@base-x
@base
@core
@admin-tools
@dial-up
@hardware-support
@printing
-selinux-*
-gphoto2
-kpartx
-firstboot
-firstboot-tui
-system-config-lvm
-rhn-*
-vnc-server
-nautilus-cd-burner
-yum-rhn-plugin
-festival-*

%post
# Make a pretty login page
cp /opt/liveDVD/background.jpg /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/syslinux-vesa-splash.jpg

# In the live cd, this is done in the init.d file
# FIXME: it'd be better to get this installed from a package
cat > /etc/rc.d/init.d/fedora-live << EOF
#!/bin/bash
#
# live: Init script for live image
#
# chkconfig: 345 00 99
# description: Init script for live image.

. /etc/init.d/functions

if ! strstr "\`cat /proc/cmdline\`" liveimg || [ "\$1" !=
"start" ] || [ -e /.liveimg-configured ] ; then
    exit 0
fi

exists() {
    which \$1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || return
    \$*
}

touch /.liveimg-configured

# mount live image
if [ -b /dev/live ]; then
   mkdir -p /mnt/live
   mount -o ro /dev/live /mnt/live
fi

# configure X
exists system-config-display --noui --reconfig --set-depth=24

# unmute sound card
exists alsaunmute 0 2> /dev/null

# add notes user with no passwd
useradd -c "Live Demo" liveuser
passwd -d liveuser > /dev/null
# Give notes ownership of the liveuser home dir
chown -R liveuser /home/liveuser
# disable screensaver locking
gconftool-2 --direct --config-source=xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults -s -t
bool /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock_enabled false >/dev/null
# set up timed auto-login for after 60 seconds
sed -i -e
's/\[daemon\]/[daemon]\nAutomaticLoginEnable=true\nAutomaticLogin=liveuser\n/'
/etc/gdm/custom.conf
if [ -e /usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/fedora-logo-icon.png ] ; then
    cp /usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/fedora-logo-icon.png /home/fedora/.face
    chown fedora:fedora /home/fedora/.face
    # TODO: would be nice to get e-d-s to pick this one up too... but how?
fi
# turn off firstboot for livecd boots
echo "RUN_FIRSTBOOT=NO" > /etc/sysconfig/firstboot

# don't start yum-updatesd for livecd boots
chkconfig --level 345 yum-updatesd off

# don't start cron/at as they tend to spawn things which are
# disk intensive that are painful on a live image
/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 crond off
/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 atd off
/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 anacron off
/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 readahead_early off
/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 readahead_later off

# Stopgap fix for RH #217966; should be fixed in HAL instead
touch /media/.hal-mtab
EOF

chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/fedora-live
/sbin/restorecon /etc/rc.d/init.d/fedora-live
/sbin/chkconfig --add fedora-live

# Add a little but more space
rm -rf /boot/initrd*

[Bryan Kearney]

Bryan Kearney wrote:
>  Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Alan Pevec wrote:
> >> yes, sorry if I wasn't clear, only backports go to EPEL CVS
> >
> > OK. Great. I am working remotely for a while without access to a EL 
> > system and I am running rawhide on my laptop for quite sometime. The 
> > connection is decent but not enough to start downloading new complete 
> > images easily so can't really test this at the moment but you can go 
> > ahead and commit those changes if you (or others) have tested that the 
> > following works correctly:
> >
> > * Create a live cd image
> > * Use livecd-iso-to-disk script to convert the image into a bootable 
> > live USB
> > * image-creator creates a ext3 image
>  
>  
>  I executed the first 2 using the attached kickstart file. I got a few 
>  warnings at boot up, but the images do work. Note.. the second one I did 
>  running the livecd-iso-to-disk from an F9 machine.
>  
>  Rahul.. what do you normally do for #3?
>  
>  -- bk
>   

I verified the livecd-iso-to-disk on a rhel 5.2 machine. Worked fine for me.

-- bk

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Bryan Kearney wrote:
>  Bryan Kearney wrote:
> > Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> Alan Pevec wrote:
> >>> yes, sorry if I wasn't clear, only backports go to EPEL CVS
> >>
> >> OK. Great. I am working remotely for a while without access to a EL 
> >> system and I am running rawhide on my laptop for quite sometime. The 
> >> connection is decent but not enough to start downloading new complete 
> >> images easily so can't really test this at the moment but you can go 
> >> ahead and commit those changes if you (or others) have tested that 
> >> the following works correctly:
> >>
> >> * Create a live cd image
> >> * Use livecd-iso-to-disk script to convert the image into a bootable 
> >> live USB
> >> * image-creator creates a ext3 image
> >
> >
> > I executed the first 2 using the attached kickstart file. I got a few 
> > warnings at boot up, but the images do work. Note.. the second one I 
> > did running the livecd-iso-to-disk from an F9 machine.
> >
> > Rahul.. what do you normally do for #3?
> >
> > -- bk
> >
>  
>  
>  I verified the livecd-iso-to-disk on a rhel 5.2 machine. Worked fine for 
>  me.
>   
While lacking a EL-5 branch in the upstream livecd-tools git repo, I've 
created a GIT repo at http://git.kanarip.com/?p=livecd;a=summary or more 
specifically http://git.kanarip.com/?p=livecd;a=shortlog;h=EL-5 with the 
appropriate patches applied.

I've successfully built the package locally using make dist and rpmbuild 
-ta livecd-tools-013.1.tar.bz2, can someone else verify this works?

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip

[Bryan Kearney]

Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>  Bryan Kearney wrote:
> > Bryan Kearney wrote:
> >> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >>> Alan Pevec wrote:
> >>>> yes, sorry if I wasn't clear, only backports go to EPEL CVS
> >>>
> >>> OK. Great. I am working remotely for a while without access to a EL 
> >>> system and I am running rawhide on my laptop for quite sometime. The 
> >>> connection is decent but not enough to start downloading new 
> >>> complete images easily so can't really test this at the moment but 
> >>> you can go ahead and commit those changes if you (or others) have 
> >>> tested that the following works correctly:
> >>>
> >>> * Create a live cd image
> >>> * Use livecd-iso-to-disk script to convert the image into a bootable 
> >>> live USB
> >>> * image-creator creates a ext3 image
> >>
> >>
> >> I executed the first 2 using the attached kickstart file. I got a few 
> >> warnings at boot up, but the images do work. Note.. the second one I 
> >> did running the livecd-iso-to-disk from an F9 machine.
> >>
> >> Rahul.. what do you normally do for #3?
> >>
> >> -- bk
> >>
> >
> >
> > I verified the livecd-iso-to-disk on a rhel 5.2 machine. Worked fine 
> > for me.
> >
>  
>  While lacking a EL-5 branch in the upstream livecd-tools git repo, I've 
>  created a GIT repo at http://git.kanarip.com/?p=livecd;a=summary or more 
>  specifically http://git.kanarip.com/?p=livecd;a=shortlog;h=EL-5 with the 
>  appropriate patches applied.
>   
I checked out and built the code from the repo. I did a similar test to 
what was done with apevecs code... built a livecd and launched it in 
virt-manager... and movved it to a usb stick using livecd-iso-to-disk. 
All worked for me. I had one small set of changes (tabs, spaces) which I 
  will send along in another email.

-- bk

[Larry Brigman]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Bryan Kearney <bkearney(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >
> > Alan Pevec wrote:
> >>
> >> yes, sorry if I wasn't clear, only backports go to EPEL CVS
> >
> > OK. Great. I am working remotely for a while without access to a EL system
> > and I am running rawhide on my laptop for quite sometime. The connection is
> > decent but not enough to start downloading new complete images easily so
> > can't really test this at the moment but you can go ahead and commit those
> > changes if you (or others) have tested that the following works correctly:
> >
> > * Create a live cd image
> > * Use livecd-iso-to-disk script to convert the image into a bootable live
> > USB
> > * image-creator creates a ext3 image
>
>
>  I executed the first 2 using the attached kickstart file. I got a few
>  warnings at boot up, but the images do work. Note.. the second one I did
>  running the livecd-iso-to-disk from an F9 machine.
>  
I tried this on my Centos5.2 box.  I have some issues with the build.
I have NIS authentication enabled on my box and when I build
it somehow disables the authentication to the point that my desktop environment
is non-functional.

The image, using a kickstart that does not have anything in post only
has the boot to
local disk in the menu.

Second pass I used the kickstart from below except I used my local RHEL5 x86_64
repo.  This fails to complete the boot process.

Am I to expect this to function correctly on RHEL5 and similar platform?

>  xconfig --startxonboot
>  timezone  America/New_York
>  selinux --disable
>  # Add an rhx repo and an updates repo
>  repo --name=epel
>  --baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5Server/i386/
>  repo --name=rhelWS
>
> --baseurl=http://porkchop.devel.redhat.com/released/RHEL-5-Client/U2/i386/os/Workstation/
>  repo --name=rhelclient
>  --baseurl=http://porkchop.devel.redhat.com/released/RHEL-5-Client/U2/i386/os/Client/
>  repo --name=rhelt
>  --baseurl=http://porkchop.devel.redhat.com/released/RHEL-5-Client/U2/i386/os/VT/
>
>  %packages
>  @gnome-desktop
>  @base-x
>  @base
>  @core
>  @admin-tools
>  @dial-up
>  @hardware-support
>  @printing
>  -selinux-*
>  -gphoto2
>  -kpartx
>  -firstboot
>  -firstboot-tui
>  -system-config-lvm
>  -rhn-*
>  -vnc-server
>  -nautilus-cd-burner
>  -yum-rhn-plugin
>  -festival-*
>
>  %post
>  # Make a pretty login page
>  cp /opt/liveDVD/background.jpg
>  /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/syslinux-vesa-splash.jpg
>
>  # In the live cd, this is done in the init.d file
>  # FIXME: it'd be better to get this installed from a package
>  cat > /etc/rc.d/init.d/fedora-live << EOF
>  #!/bin/bash
>  #
>  # live: Init script for live image
>  #
>  # chkconfig: 345 00 99
>  # description: Init script for live image.
>
>  . /etc/init.d/functions
>
>  if ! strstr "\`cat /proc/cmdline\`" liveimg || [ "\$1" !=
> "start" ] || [ -e
>  /.liveimg-configured ] ; then
>     exit 0
>  fi
>
>  exists() {
>     which \$1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || return
>     \$*
>  }
>
>  touch /.liveimg-configured
>
>  # mount live image
>  if [ -b /dev/live ]; then
>    mkdir -p /mnt/live
>    mount -o ro /dev/live /mnt/live
>  fi
>
>  # configure X
>  exists system-config-display --noui --reconfig --set-depth=24
>
>  # unmute sound card
>  exists alsaunmute 0 2> /dev/null
>
>  # add notes user with no passwd
>  useradd -c "Live Demo" liveuser
>  passwd -d liveuser > /dev/null
>  # Give notes ownership of the liveuser home dir
>  chown -R liveuser /home/liveuser
>  # disable screensaver locking
>  gconftool-2 --direct
>  --config-source=xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults -s -t bool
>  /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock_enabled false >/dev/null
>  # set up timed auto-login for after 60 seconds
>  sed -i -e
>  's/\[daemon\]/[daemon]\nAutomaticLoginEnable=true\nAutomaticLogin=liveuser\n/'
>  /etc/gdm/custom.conf
>  if [ -e /usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/fedora-logo-icon.png ] ; then
>     cp /usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/fedora-logo-icon.png
>  /home/fedora/.face
>     chown fedora:fedora /home/fedora/.face
>     # TODO: would be nice to get e-d-s to pick this one up too... but how?
>  fi
>  # turn off firstboot for livecd boots
>  echo "RUN_FIRSTBOOT=NO" > /etc/sysconfig/firstboot
>
>  # don't start yum-updatesd for livecd boots
>  chkconfig --level 345 yum-updatesd off
>
>  # don't start cron/at as they tend to spawn things which are
>  # disk intensive that are painful on a live image
>  /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 crond off
>  /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 atd off
>  /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 anacron off
>  /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 readahead_early off
>  /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 readahead_later off
>
>  # Stopgap fix for RH #217966; should be fixed in HAL instead
>  touch /media/.hal-mtab
>  EOF
>
>  chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/fedora-live
>  /sbin/restorecon /etc/rc.d/init.d/fedora-live
>  /sbin/chkconfig --add fedora-live
>
>  # Add a little but more space
>  rm -rf /boot/initrd*
>
>
>
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>
>

[Orion Poplawski]

>  I tried this on my Centos5.2 box.  I have some issues with the build.
>  I have NIS authentication enabled on my box and when I build
>  it somehow disables the authentication to the point that my desktop
>  environment
>  is non-functional. 
I see that the install_root is still busy if I'm running nscd on the build
system (rawhide in my case), which causes many problems.  I make sure to
stop it before running livecd-creator.  Probably should report a bug...

- Orion

[Michael Thomas]

Larry Brigman wrote:
>  On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Bryan Kearney
> <bkearney(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
> > Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> Alan Pevec wrote:
> >>> yes, sorry if I wasn't clear, only backports go to EPEL CVS
> >> OK. Great. I am working remotely for a while without access to a EL system
> >> and I am running rawhide on my laptop for quite sometime. The connection is
> >> decent but not enough to start downloading new complete images easily so
> >> can't really test this at the moment but you can go ahead and commit those
> >> changes if you (or others) have tested that the following works correctly:
> >>
> >> * Create a live cd image
> >> * Use livecd-iso-to-disk script to convert the image into a bootable live
> >> USB
> >> * image-creator creates a ext3 image
> >
> > I executed the first 2 using the attached kickstart file. I got a few
> > warnings at boot up, but the images do work. Note.. the second one I did
> > running the livecd-iso-to-disk from an F9 machine.
> >
>  
>  I tried this on my Centos5.2 box.  I have some issues with the build.
>  I have NIS authentication enabled on my box and when I build
>  it somehow disables the authentication to the point that my desktop environment
>  is non-functional. 
Sound like you might be getting bit by this:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457697

--Wart

[Larry Brigman]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Wart <wart(a)kobold.org&gt; wrote:
>  Larry Brigman wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Bryan Kearney <bkearney(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
> >> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >>> Alan Pevec wrote:
> >>>> yes, sorry if I wasn't clear, only backports go to EPEL CVS
> >>> OK. Great. I am working remotely for a while without access to a EL system
> >>> and I am running rawhide on my laptop for quite sometime. The connection is
> >>> decent but not enough to start downloading new complete images easily so
> >>> can't really test this at the moment but you can go ahead and commit
> those
> >>> changes if you (or others) have tested that the following works correctly:
> >>>
> >>> * Create a live cd image
> >>> * Use livecd-iso-to-disk script to convert the image into a bootable live
> >>> USB
> >>> * image-creator creates a ext3 image
> >>
> >> I executed the first 2 using the attached kickstart file. I got a few
> >> warnings at boot up, but the images do work. Note.. the second one I did
> >> running the livecd-iso-to-disk from an F9 machine.
> >>
> >
> > I tried this on my Centos5.2 box.  I have some issues with the build.
> > I have NIS authentication enabled on my box and when I build
> > it somehow disables the authentication to the point that my desktop environment
> > is non-functional.
>
>  Sound like you might be getting bit by this:
>
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457697
>  
It looks like its going to bite me on RHEL5/CentOS5 as the repos don't
have access to that new of
a version of authconfig.

[Bryan Kearney]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  Alan Pevec wrote:
> > yes, sorry if I wasn't clear, only backports go to EPEL CVS
>  
>  OK. Great. I am working remotely for a while without access to a EL 
>  system and I am running rawhide on my laptop for quite sometime. The 
>  connection is decent but not enough to start downloading new complete 
>  images easily so can't really test this at the moment but you can go 
>  ahead and commit those changes if you (or others) have tested that the 
>  following works correctly:
>  
>  * Create a live cd image
>  * Use livecd-iso-to-disk script to convert the image into a bootable 
>  live USB
>  * image-creator creates a ext3 image 
Rahul:

Do you do anything special for this final test, or just run and mount 
the filesystem?

-- bk