livecd August 2008

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F7 general question about livecd-creator and timezones
by Skunk Worx 01 May '09

01 May '09

My ks scripts have the timezone set to PDT (America/Los_Angeles). Installation to a hard drive works as expected. PDT in startup and in shells, etc. Creating a livecd-creator iso with the same tz setting, then booting, shows A/L_A in the /etc/sysconfig/clock file, as expected. However the date is always EDT in the boot messages, shells, etc. During startup I see : (lvm) Press I to enter interactive startup Setting clock (utc) Mon Jun 4 00:12:59 EDT 2007 (udev) I'm not clear on what is happening between lvm and udev in the Linux startup sequence. If someone could give me a hint about what to look for and where to look for it I would appreciate the help. --- John

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French fr_FR LiveCD spins
by Nicolas Chauvet 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

Hello! Here are the french ks for localized LiveCD spins. The current problem with adding dictionaries and man-pages is that they are disabled in the included ks. (-man-pages-* etc ) So I expect it would be easier to have an "international - offical" ks that would allow us to add this kind of packages; without having theses packages removed first. Or the other way would be to have a +man-pages-fr to override the removal directive. The %__install_lang_macro seems really interesting for localization works. It will save around 200Mo from a liveCD/USB spin. and will make the KDE Live spin ... a "potential" LiveCD spin. Everything is already available from Fedora. The packages just need to use the %find_lang macro from the spec file. Only cups and NetworkManager-openvpn (for what i've noticed) doesn't seems compatible and will install all langs... Cups will probably not been fixed. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448549 Network-Manager-openvpn https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448551 The testing LiveCD french spins are here (with additionals packages ). http://rpms.kwizart.net/fedora/9/ISO/ and the ks used to generated them: http://rpms.kwizart.net/fedora/9/ISO/ks/livecd-fedora-9-french-20080604-ks.… Nicolas Chauvet (kwizart) %include livecd-fedora-9-desktop.ks # change some system configurations # System keyboard keyboard fr-latin9 # System language lang fr_FR.UTF-8 # System timezone timezone Europe/Paris %packages # Localized dictionaries and man-pages hunspell-fr aspell-fr man-pages-fr #Support for your language @french-support %end %pre # Only install the minimal langs mkdir -p /etc/rpm echo "%_install_langs en:fr:fr_FR:fr-FR" > /etc/rpm/macros.lang %end %post # Localized keyboard map echo fr-latin9 > /etc/X11/Xkbmap # Localized system timezone cp -p /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Paris /etc/localtime # Localized default firefox dictionary echo "pref(\"spellchecker.dictionary\", \"fr_FR\");" >> \ /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b5/defaults/preferences/all-redhat.js sed -i -e 's/en-US/fr-FR/g' \ /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b5/defaults/preferences/firefox-l10n.js %end %post --nochroot # Overwrite for a localized README cp -pR $INSTALL_ROOT/usr/share/doc/HTML/readme-live-image/fr/readme-live-image-fr.txt $LIVE_ROOT/README %end %include livecd-fedora-9-kde.ks # change some system configurations # System keyboard keyboard fr-latin9 # System language lang fr_FR.UTF-8 # System timezone timezone Europe/Paris %packages # Localized dictionaries and man-pages hunspell-fr aspell-fr man-pages-fr #Support for your language @french-support %end %pre # Only install the minimal langs mkdir -p /etc/rpm echo "%_install_langs en:fr:fr_FR:fr-FR" > /etc/rpm/macros.lang %end %post # Localized keyboard map echo fr-latin9 > /etc/X11/Xkbmap # Localized system timezone cp -p /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Paris /etc/localtime %end %post --nochroot # Overwrite for a localized README cp -pR $INSTALL_ROOT/usr/share/doc/HTML/readme-live-image/fr/readme-live-image-fr.txt $LIVE_ROOT/README %end

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Periodically remastered LiveCDs?
by Mike Perry 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

Hey guys, I was wondering if there are any plans or existing unofficial torrents that provide remastered "stable" LiveCD images with all the recent updates applied? For example, I've tried out the FC9 LiveCD and my wireless card would not work until I installed the iso to a USB and upgraded my wpa_supplicant and NetworkManager. From googling around, this seemed like a common problem with the early FC9 installs. In general, I've noticed the initial release of many distributions is quite buggy, but that things vastly improve after a couple of months of updates. Is there any reason why remastered updates aren't provided officially? Having a more stable LiveCD will definitely give people a much more favorable opinion of Fedora. Anyways, great work on the LiveCD effort in general. I was really impressed with how easy it was to get the USB stick installed in a non-destructive fashion, even when it contained the very .iso it installed from. Cool stuff! -- Mike Perry Mad Computer Scientist fscked.org evil labs

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[PATCH] Older authconfig doesn't have --update
by Ruben Kerkhof 30 Aug '08

30 Aug '08

Hi list, This prevents an error message when building live cd's for Centos 4 and Red Hat 4 Signed-off-by: Ruben Kerkhof <ruben(a)rubenkerkhof.com> --- imgcreate/kickstart.py | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/imgcreate/kickstart.py b/imgcreate/kickstart.py index 11eac7c..377b253 100644 --- a/imgcreate/kickstart.py +++ b/imgcreate/kickstart.py @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ class AuthConfig(KickstartConfig): return auth = ksauthconfig.authconfig or "--useshadow --enablemd5" - args = ["/usr/sbin/authconfig", "--update", "--nostart"] + args = ["/usr/sbin/authconfig", "--kickstart", "--nostart"] self.call(args + auth.split()) class FirewallConfig(KickstartConfig): -- 1.5.5.1

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Changes to 'refs/tags/livecd-tools-018'
by Jeremy Katz 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

Tag 'livecd-tools-018' created by Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> at 2008-08-29 00:16 +0000 livecd-tools-018 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAki3P9wACgkQbZmr36XllQ1JOgCg5hINMlQEURrFvJvTc6vaGrrJ wjMAoPycg4E4KBwt28cVsFzBTyUWvfNO =2nGn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Changes since livecd-tools-017-69: --- 0 files changed ---

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livecd-tools.spec Makefile
by Jeremy Katz 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

Makefile | 2 +- livecd-tools.spec | 20 +++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) New commits: commit 02dd8e1cf9a09016573c6b5eb6bdd2362e95b05f Author: Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> Date: Thu Aug 28 19:56:28 2008 -0400 Bump version diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index ef45cae..05993c6 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -VERSION = 017 +VERSION = 018 INSTALL = /usr/bin/install -c INSTALL_PROGRAM = ${INSTALL} diff --git a/livecd-tools.spec b/livecd-tools.spec index a5ca5ec..ab641b8 100644 --- a/livecd-tools.spec +++ b/livecd-tools.spec @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Summary: Tools for building live CD's Name: livecd-tools -Version: 017 +Version: 018 Release: 1%{?dist} License: GPLv2 Group: System Environment/Base @@ -63,6 +63,24 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT %{python_sitelib}/imgcreate/*.pyc %changelog +* Thu Aug 28 2008 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 018-1 +- Use logging API for debugging messages (dhuff) +- Some initial support for booting live images on an XO +- Refactoring of mount code for appliance-creator (danpb, dhuff) +- Make --base-on actually work again +- Drop the image configs; these are now in the spin-kickstarts repo +- plymouth support +- Listen to bootloader --append in config +- Add man pages (Pedro Silva) +- Support booting from Intel based Macs via EFI on USB (#450193) +- Fixes for SELinux enforcing (eparis) +- Eject the CD on shutdown (#239928) +- Allow adding extra kernel args with livecd-iso-to-disk +- Support for persistent /home (#445218) +- Copy timezone to /etc/localtime (#445624) +- Ensure that commands run by livecd-creator exist +- Mount a tmpfs for some dirs (#447127) + * Tue May 6 2008 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - 017-1 - fix F9 final configs

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livecd-tools.spec Makefile
by Jeremy Katz 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

Makefile | 2 -- livecd-tools.spec | 5 ++--- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) New commits: commit af9dc183e7e8e613948598933cb61bf262821294 Author: Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> Date: Thu Aug 28 19:42:15 2008 -0400 Stop installing the minimal config; just make it %doc diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index a8d8659..ef45cae 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ install: man $(INSTALL_DATA) -D README $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/doc/livecd-tools-$(VERSION)/README $(INSTALL_DATA) -D HACKING $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/doc/livecd-tools-$(VERSION)/HACKING mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/livecd-tools/ - $(INSTALL_DATA) -D config/*.ks $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/livecd-tools/ mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)/$(PYTHONDIR)/imgcreate $(INSTALL_PYTHON) -D imgcreate/*.py $(DESTDIR)/$(PYTHONDIR)/imgcreate/ $(call COMPILE_PYTHON,$(DESTDIR)/$(PYTHONDIR)/imgcreate) @@ -41,7 +40,6 @@ uninstall: rm -f $(DESTDIR)/usr/bin/livecd-creator rm -rf $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/livecd-creator rm -rf $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/doc/livecd-tools-$(VERSION) - rm -rf $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/livecd-tools dist : all git-archive --format=tar --prefix=livecd-tools-$(VERSION)/ HEAD | bzip2 -9v > livecd-tools-$(VERSION).tar.bz2 diff --git a/livecd-tools.spec b/livecd-tools.spec index ce4fea8..a5ca5ec 100644 --- a/livecd-tools.spec +++ b/livecd-tools.spec @@ -50,13 +50,12 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT %files %defattr(-,root,root,-) -%doc AUTHORS COPYING README HACKING +%doc AUTHORS COPYING README HACKING API +%doc config/livecd-fedora-minimal.ks %{_mandir}/man*/* %{_bindir}/livecd-creator %{_bindir}/livecd-iso-to-disk %{_bindir}/livecd-iso-to-pxeboot -%dir %{_datadir}/livecd-tools -%{_datadir}/livecd-tools/* %{_bindir}/image-creator %dir %{python_sitelib}/imgcreate %{python_sitelib}/imgcreate/*.py

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tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh
by Jeremy Katz 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) New commits: commit 5b69d94863531e446b9d5c9033347740601cbed0 Author: Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> Date: Thu Aug 28 17:38:01 2008 -0400 Initial stab at setting up USB/SD for booting on the XO If you've built a live image with a kernel that will boot on the XO, this will let you put that image onto a USB stick/SD card with the needed forth files to boot. Then just drop to the OF prompt while booting your XO and type either boot u:\olpc-usb.fth or boot sd:\olpc-sd.fth for booting from USB or SD diff --git a/tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh b/tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh index a2f058e..f3667d1 100755 --- a/tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh +++ b/tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh @@ -254,6 +254,9 @@ while [ $# -gt 2 ]; do --mactel) mactel=1 ;; + --xo) + xo=1 + ;; --extra-kernel-args) kernelargs=$2 shift @@ -302,7 +305,7 @@ if [ -z "$mactel" ]; then checkPartActive $USBDEV [ -n "$resetmbr" ] && resetMBR $USBDEV checkMBR $USBDEV -else +elif [ -n "$mactel" ]; then [ -n "$resetmbr" ] && createGPTLayout $USBDEV checkGPT $USBDEV fi @@ -479,6 +482,31 @@ if [ -n "$homesizemb" ]; then fi fi +# create the forth files for booting on the XO if requested +# we'd do this unconditionally, but you have to have a kernel that will +# boot on the XO anyway. +if [ -n "$xo" ]; then + echo "Setting up /olpc-usb.fth file" + args=$(egrep "^[ ]*append" $USBMNT/$SYSLINUXPATH/isolinux.cfg |head -n1 |sed -e 's/.*initrd=[^ ]*//') + cat > $USBMNT/olpc-usb.fth <<EOF +\ Boot script for USB boot +" $args" to boot-file +" u:\syslinux\initrd0.img" to ramdisk +unfreeze +boot u:\syslinux\vmlinuz0 +EOF + + echo "Setting up /olpc-sd.fth file" + cat > $USBMNT/olpc-sd.fth <<EOF +\ Boot script for SD boot +" $args" to boot-file +" sd:\syslinux\initrd0.img" to ramdisk +unfreeze +boot sd:\syslinux\vmlinuz0 +EOF + +fi + echo "Installing boot loader" if [ -n "$mactel" ]; then # replace the ia32 hack

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2 commits - imgcreate/kickstart.py tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh
by Jeremy Katz 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

imgcreate/kickstart.py | 9 ++++++--- tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh | 5 ++++- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) New commits: commit abfcd5f100d4f52e65ed674b8bd33db05fa8a155 Author: Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> Date: Thu Aug 28 15:41:50 2008 -0400 Allow later configs to override repos When you have a %include'd config file, it can be useful to override the repo config. This makes it so that the last specification of a specific repo name wins diff --git a/imgcreate/kickstart.py b/imgcreate/kickstart.py index e352e98..11eac7c 100644 --- a/imgcreate/kickstart.py +++ b/imgcreate/kickstart.py @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import os.path import shutil import subprocess import time +import logging import pykickstart.commands as kscommands import pykickstart.constants as ksconstants @@ -462,7 +463,7 @@ def get_default_kernel(ks, default = None): return ks.handler.bootloader.default def get_repos(ks, repo_urls = {}): - repos = [] + repos = {} for repo in ks.handler.repo.repoList: inc = [] if hasattr(repo, "includepkgs"): @@ -479,9 +480,11 @@ def get_repos(ks, repo_urls = {}): baseurl = repo_urls[repo.name] mirrorlist = None - repos.append((repo.name, baseurl, mirrorlist, inc, exc)) + if repos.has_key(repo.name): + logging.warn("Overriding already specified repo %s" %(repo.name,)) + repos[repo.name] = (repo.name, baseurl, mirrorlist, inc, exc) - return repos + return repos.values() def convert_method_to_repo(ks): try: commit 60d00e6aa7072b2269fbe52411a07e252497b102 Author: Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> Date: Thu Aug 28 15:36:01 2008 -0400 Add a --force to override the check for existing live images on a stick diff --git a/tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh b/tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh index 48ae40b..a2f058e 100755 --- a/tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh +++ b/tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh @@ -258,6 +258,9 @@ while [ $# -gt 2 ]; do kernelargs=$2 shift ;; + --force) + force=1 + ;; *) usage ;; @@ -358,7 +361,7 @@ if [ $(($overlaysizemb + $homesizemb + $livesize)) -gt $(($free + $tbd)) ]; then exitclean fi -if [ -d $USBMNT/LiveOS ]; then +if [ -d $USBMNT/LiveOS -a -z "$force" ]; then echo "Already set up as live image." if [ -z "$keephome" -a -e $USBMNT/LiveOS/home.img ]; then echo "WARNING: Persistent /home will be deleted!!!"

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[Fedora Forum] Micro Fedora
by Luya Tshimbalanga 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

Hello, A Fedora user nicknamed stevea has posted an topic about making micro Fedora. It will be nice to take a look because he may be a very important contributors given his skills in embedded. " The minimalFedora system weighed in at 67MB. 58MB was in /lib/modules. I could easily pare that down to a few MB, remove unused drivers with a little work. Another 6.5MB was in /boot and 1.7MB in busybox. Aside from the homemade inittab and rcS (init script) it was all from the Fedora distro,". References: ----------- http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=190084 -- Luya Tshimbalanga Fedora Project contributor http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/LuyaTshimbalanga P.S: disregard the comparison with BSD topic.

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