livecd July 2006

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Meryem
by meryem saqalli 28 Jul '06

28 Jul '06

Dear Mr please can you tel me about step for create the livecd contenant fedora and paquetages calamv and fwbuilder. Thanks Best Regards --------------------------------- Découvrez un nouveau moyen de poser toutes vos questions quelque soit le sujet ! Yahoo! Questions/Réponses pour partager vos connaissances, vos opinions et vos expériences. Cliquez ici.

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hdd installs from livecd patch - where?
by Jane Dogalt 28 Jul '06

28 Jul '06

I just noticed that fedora projects weekly says jasper provided a patch for the hdd installs. Was this a typo? The link only points to a message about the possibility of creating one, not an actual patch. -jdog __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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what we have done
by Chitlesh GOORAH 13 Jul '06

13 Jul '06

Hello there, In the last two weeks, Jasper and I worked on various parts of Kadischi (all our discussions were on IRC): - we have a new kadischi.py which was committed to cvs last week Due to the changes with respect to kadischi.py, + flc_log and run has been dropped from movefiles.py and lib/functions.py + path_exists and url_exists functions dropped from functions.py - we also have a small GUI for kadischi which takes a repository and the path and the filename of the iso and launch kadischi from a terminal. This is a fairly new feature, but it needs to improved. On Toshio's advice, we have used pam and consolehelper to launch kadischi with root access from gnome/kde menus (kadischi.desktop). - we have also a gui for userhome.sh. This script helps the root user to mount a partition (from a usb or hdd) as /home. - LiveCDs built (with Kadischi) ejects the cd properly on shutdown. - We have a spec file for kadischi. We thought to push kadischi in Fedora-extras-development only (not Fedora Extras). why ? + because if approved, we can see whether kadischi builds on x86_64, since there isn't syslinux on ppc, kadischi won't build on ppc. I'll try to find time to use grub instead. + perhaps we could have more contributors and testers. Till now, only Jasper and I are working on Kadischi. + this will make us work harder and know what is failing and on what to work on. Do share with us your views about it. But, yes there is a but, the GUI we have for kadischi in CVS isn't ready at 100%. DamienDurand proposed to work a python glade version of it. Once ready, we may push kadischi to Fedora-extras-development. Till now, Kadischi builds FC6 Livecds successfully if built on either FC6 or FC5, but the livecd doesn't boot. But we are working on it. As from today, ill be on vacation for one month. I'll try to find an hour or two to work on kadischi. DamienDurand do send me your progress on kadischi's GUI, though if it's now complete, we may work together on it. Jasper, can you take over kadischi's Fedora Weekly News for the next 4 mondays for me ? Cheers, Chitlesh Goorah -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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ld.so fc4 kernel 2.6.16-1.2111 behavior comments
by Skunk Worx 12 Jul '06

12 Jul '06

asking for my tech lead... he claims the dynamic loading changed in fedora sometime in the last several months. we have an application set with the usual bin,lib,include directories, and ld.so.conf entries to support the lib. he did a toplevel 'make clean ; make' on our source tree, which wiped out the existing so's from our lib on the hard drive and replaced them with the latest. then he started an app from our bin. he says the new symbols from the latest .sos were not present in dlsym calls. the old .so was still somehow being used. according to him this is broken behavior...he says this should never happen if the disk file changes, and he runs ldconfig (as he did), whether an existing app still has chunks of the old .so mapped or not. an init 6 cleared the problem (obviously) just curious if anyone has comments ... or pointers to a commentary about the behavior...i will relay them and post back as necessary. thanks, John

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Call for Testing: Kadischi.py
by Chitlesh GOORAH 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Hello there, I have adopted Jeremy's style and rewrote the today's kadischi.py cvs version. Before committing to cvs, I'm calling to test it for * smp * Xen * kickstart file * fc6t1 Things which have dropped - /etc/kadischi/kadischi.conf - /usr/local/share/kadischi/create-iso.sh Things to Work on from now: - better cleanup mechanism - work on the files which depends on flc_log and run - better mechanism for the buildstamp - see Kadischi/Schedule regards, Chitlesh Goorah -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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Jeremy's code and my X crashes
by Chitlesh GOORAH 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Hello, I've never knew why X freezes everytime I execute Jeremy's code related to anaconda. Jeremy's code: # now that we've got our dirs set up, let's run anaconda args = [ "/usr/sbin/anaconda", "--rootpath=cd:%s/system" %(builddir,), "--method=%s" %(method,)] args.extend(anaconda_args) env = {"ANACONDA_PRODUCTNAME": "%s Live CD Generator" %(product,), "ANACONDA_PRODUCTVERSION": version, "ANACONDA_PRODUCTPATH": product} print args rc = subprocess.call(args, env=env) if rc: print >> sys.stderr, "anaconda failed. Exiting" return rc The regular log file does not output something fruitful, but i think It logs in a different file. what could it be ? -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

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Saving user data and configurations
by J. Hartline 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Hi. On the wiki under the Schedule it states to use Linux4All as a starting point for saving user data and configurations. I have went against this approach and have written a small script here that uses dialog, and simply asks the (root) user if they would like to mount a disk partition under /home, since a logout and login of any standard user will use this directory. It supports disks hd[a-d][1-4] and sd[a-d][1-4] likewise is currently written to allow Ext2, Ext3 or Vfat partitions. Once the options are chosen, disk, partition, and filesystem type, it is mounted under /home for the user. I have also written a userhome.desktop file to be placed in /root/.config/autostart to launch the menu. I'm curious if this is a better approach than Linux4All's search-and-destroy method. I think it is a good approach for a start to allow mounting something under home, whether it be a HDD partition or a USB flash device. Likewise it can be built upon. Good idea or not? Chitlesh, were you going to write a Zenity equivalent to 07accounts.sh? J. Hartline

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