Re: install from rsync tree on local partition possible?

[Gianluca Cecchi]

Ok, so a no go at the moment.
And what would be the simpler way to create an iso image starting from the
14Gb rsync tree?
I'm trying with revisor but perhaps its particular aim is for customizing,
while I would like to recreate a sort of daily dvd iso image if it can help
for testing purposes...
Thanks,
Gianluca

install from rsync tree on local partition possible?

[Gianluca Cecchi]

Just following up... hopefully other ones using revisor to create small isos
from rsync everything tree (under /data/users/gcecchi/rawhide_os/) could
help me here.
So I'm on F8 and using revisor-2.0.5-15.fc8 with an rsynced tree of rawhide
I modified the preconfigured
/etc/revisor/conf.d/revisor-rawhide-i386.confso that it uses local
tree without downloading what is already here and
avoiding mirrors:

19,20c19,20
< baseurl=file:///data/users/gcecchi/rawhide_os
< #mirrorlist=
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=i386
---
>  #baseurl=http://localrepo/fedora/development/i386/os/
>  mirrorlist= 
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=i386

The process seems to stop whane creating the iso.
Running revisor from command line with the --debug option I get an error
regarding missing .discinfo (see below).
How can I create it and/or put it?

Thanks Gianluca

[snip]
Size of the installation tree is 1022 MB
Initting progress bar for Creating DVD ISO Image
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/revisor/ready_screen.py", line 183,
in button_forward_clicked
    self.gui.displayBuildMedia()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/revisor/gui.py", line 278, in
displayBuildMedia
    self.BuildMedia.start()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/revisor/build_media.py", line 65,
in start
    self.base.lift_off()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/revisor/base.py", line 933, in
lift_off
    self.buildInstallationMedia()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/revisor/base.py", line 1368, in
buildInstallationMedia
    mypungi.ALL_workaround()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/revisor/pungi.py", line 469, in
ALL_workaround
    content = open(discinfofile, 'r').readlines()
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/var/tmp/revisor-pungi/rawhide/rawhide-i386/i386/os/.discinfo'


On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi(a)gmail.com&gt;
wrote:

>  Ok, so a no go at the moment.
>  And what would be the simpler way to create an iso image starting from the
>  14Gb rsync tree?
>  I'm trying with revisor but perhaps its particular aim is for customizing,
>  while I would like to recreate a sort of daily dvd iso image if it can help
>  for testing purposes...
>  Thanks,
>  Gianluca
>
>
>

install from rsync tree on local partition possible?

[Development discussions related to Fedora]

Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
>  Ok, so a no go at the moment.
>  And what would be the simpler way to create an iso image starting from the
>  14Gb rsync tree? 
If you want to build a F9Beta from your pre-downloaded tree, I
suggest 
using jigdo {in fact pyjigdo}. You tell it the jigdo template location, 
then your pre-downloaded source locations, and it uses the content to 
build the iso {downloading the bits that aren't present locally}.

But perhaps you meant you would like to simulate what an iso image built 
by Fedora at any possible moment would look like ?

DaveT.

install from rsync tree on local partition possible?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:24:40 +1100,
  David Timms <dtimms(a)iinet.net.au&gt; wrote:
>  Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
>  >Ok, so a no go at the moment.
>  >And what would be the simpler way to create an iso image starting from the
>  >14Gb rsync tree?
>  If you want to build a F9Beta from your pre-downloaded tree, I suggest 
>  using jigdo {in fact pyjigdo}. You tell it the jigdo template location, 
>  then your pre-downloaded source locations, and it uses the content to 
>  build the iso {downloading the bits that aren't present locally}.
>  
>  But perhaps you meant you would like to simulate what an iso image built 
>  by Fedora at any possible moment would look like ? 
There isn't a need to do that. It is going to be simpler to just make an
iso out of the mirrored directory. But that still requires twice the space
and takes a while to build (as it is about 12 GB).