[Fedora-spins] problems creating official spins locally

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

On 05/18/2009 05:41 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Mon, 18 May 2009 07:02:27 -0700
> John Poelstra<poelstra at redhat.com>  wrote:
>
>> At last week's meeting I volunteered to create a simple wiki page to
>> help anyone build one of the official spins and also build some of
>> the spins for testing.
>
> Thanks. ;)
>> I ran into several problems doing this last week.  Some were
>> self-inflicted (running out of disk space in the root partition), but
>> others were more mysterious.  Like kicking off the livecd-creator,
>> watching it download all the needed packages and start to yum install
>> them, only to watch it hang on several occasions after installing 400
>> or 500 packages.
>>
>> 1) Is building live CDs on Fedora 10 for Fedora 11 a bad idea?
>
> I think it is. At least I think you need the livecd-creator from f11.
> Possibly other things. ;(
> I do all my test composes on rawhide machines.
>

Fedora 10 has SquashFS 3, whereas Fedora 11 has SquashFS 4. This is 
incompatible. Fedora 10 might create an ISO with a SquashFS 3 filesystem 
image on it, but the kernel on the ISO will attempt to mount it as 
SquashFS 4 and fail.

--Jeroen