[Fedora-livecd-list] Kadischi error

[Darko Ilic]

On Thursday 13 October 2005 08:11, Skunk Worx wrote:
> >>>===
> >>>making initrd image
> >>>/tmp/livecd-build_no12/system/lib/modules/None is not a directory.

> still working through the latest kernel:
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux wombat 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 #1 Wed Sep 28 19:15:03 EDT 2005 i586 i586
> i386 GNU/Linux

Hmm, we are talking about updating the parent system, not the repository that 
will be used for live CD building, right?

Well, the kernel that is running on the parent system has nothing to do with 
the kernel on the live CD system.

I'm currently connecting to the internet through the GPRS so I can't download 
updates and try them by my self... But, there are two things you should pay 
attention to:

1. What repository are you using for live CD building? FC4 or not? 
2. Is the python on the parent system FC4 default, or is maybe updated?

Here's the function that is supposed to resolve the kernel version:

def get_kernel_version (rootdir):
 """Returns kernel version that is installed on the destination system"""
 kernel_version = None
 clear_rpm_db_files (rootdir)
 ts = rpm.TransactionSet (rootdir)
 for mi in ts.dbMatch ('name', 'kernel'):
  kernel_version = "%s-%s" % (mi['version'], mi['release'])
 clear_rpm_db_files (rootdir)
 return kernel_version

rootdir is the path to the root of the system. For the above example, it would 
be rootdir='/tmp/livecd-build_no12/system'. You could also try it out on your 
local system by calling get_kernel_version('/') 

Just in case, here's the clear_rpm_db_files function that is used in 
get_kernel_version().

def clear_rpm_db_files (rootdir):
 """Removes rpm database files in the destination if they exist"""
 def rmpath (p):
  try: os.remove (p)
         except OSError: pass
 rmpath (normalize_path ('var/lib/rpm/__db.001', rootdir))
 rmpath (normalize_path ('var/lib/rpm/__db.002', rootdir))
 rmpath (normalize_path ('var/lib/rpm/__db.003', rootdir))

--
Darko