[Fedora-livecd-list] Help with a problem I am seeing when trying to build a liveCD for FC13

[Larry Brigman]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Jim Galarowicz <jeg at krellinst.org> wrote:
> Hi Bruno,
>
> Thanks for the reply.  I will try to use your suggestions and start
> fixing packages locally and see if I can get farther.
>
> Thanks much!
>
> Jim G
>
> On 07/14/2010 10:50 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 09:33:21 -0500,
>>    Jim Galarowicz<jeg at krellinst.org>  wrote:
>>>
>>> So, what you are saying might have happened, is that the order of
>>> the packages to be installed may have changed and now I'm hitting
>>> packages that don't have the requirement specified for coreutils and
>>> that is the cause of the initial failures I'm seeing?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>> Is there a workaround to use while the packages are being (bug)
>>> reported on?   Is there a way to force coreutils to the top of the
>>> install list?
>>
>> Probably there is some package you could add that would cause this to happen,
>> but I don't know a good way to determine one.
>>
>> It might be easier to start fixing the packages locally and build using
>> the local repo in addition to the normal ones. There is a reasonable chance
>> that fixing one of the packages will make things work.
>>
>> The fix is pretty easy, so it shouldn't be hard to do (compared to making
>> custom spins).
>>
>>> /home/jeg/OpenSpeedShop/liveOSS/INSTALL/localhost.localdomain/
>>> there are no rpm-tmp.nnnnn files being created there.   Not sure
>>> why.  I see older tmp files there from previous runs that worked a
>>> few days ago.
>>
>> This might be a cascading error. Try fixing the other stuff first and then
>> worry about it if it is still present.

Probably the easiest way to fix this is to ensure that your rpm has
the correct pre-reqs and post-requires.