Kadischi - manual page
by J. Hartline
Hi.
Chitlesh,
I've written a tiny bit of a man for Kadischi.
If you want a take a took at it and edit it appropriately and
give me some suggestion if it is good/bad whatever. Maybe I'll drop this
down in a que
to do and send it up to the bugzilla.
The processing instructions are in the top.
I've got in there Darko Ilic, is it standard to have many names or
is it AUTHOR, for just the page AUTHOR, or project author?
J. Hartline
.\" PRCESS THIS FILE WITH
.\" groff -man -Tascii kadischi.1
.\"
.TH KADISCHI 1 "MARCH 2006" Linux "User Manuals"
.SH NAME
kadischi - generate a live cd from an RPM repository
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B kadischi [--text|--graphical] [--kickstart=<kickstart file>] [-C] [-f]
.I repository iso
.B
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B kadischi
generates a live cd from an RPM repository tree by invoking
anaconda passing it the correct options and installing to the build
directory specified. Kadischi will invoke
.BR mkzftree
and
.BR mkisofs
to produce an image that can be written to a CD or DVD ROM.
.SH OPTIONS
.IP --text
Run in a textual mode that does not require X.
.IP --graphical
Run in graphical mode.
.IP --kickstart
Read from <kickstart file> using the installation options
provided in the file for the produced ISO image. This option
can be used with -C to automate builds.
.IP -C
Run strictly in command line mode requiring no user input.
.IP -f
Overwrite an existing ISO image, if it already exists.
.SH FILES
.I /etc/kadischi/build.conf
.RS
The system wide configuration file. See
.BR kadischi(5)
for more information.
.RE
.I /etc/kadischi/buildstamp
.RS
The build-stamp file. Used for stamping a CD. See
.BR kadischi(5)
for more information.
.SH BUGS
The module shvarFile is not always imported properly or is not imported
sometimes at all, resulting in the build directory needing to be
manually cleaned up.
.SH AUTHOR
.RS
Darko Ilic <darko.ilic(a)gmail.com>
.RS
Jasper Hartline <jasperhartline(a)adelphia.net>
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR mkzftree(1),
.BR mkisofs(1),
.BR busybox(1)
18 years, 1 month
Kadischi - bootsplash modules
by J. Hartline
Hi.
Chitlesh if we can get the f1-f5 texts sometime today, that would be great.
They should take but a few minutes to write.
I've spotted a small flaw in your current texts.
1) "F1-More information" should actually be F1-Main just like you see on
current release discs.
F1 should always go to isolinux.txt (which could be renamed to f1.txt).
Right now we are just waiting on:
f2.txt and f3.txt from you and a confirmation
on whether we add a Xen screen, on just Xen kernel installs or one of
them is always Xen.
When we get these issues out of the way I can hopefully regenerate a
final patch set and send to the list.
Thanks Chitlesh.
J. Hartline
18 years, 1 month
Fedora LiveCD build#002
by Chitlesh GOORAH
Hai there,
Thanks to FilipTsachev, there WILL BE (in the next few hours) another
beta Fedora Core 5 Test 3 based LiveCD available for download.
JonFautley said the (previous) ISO downloads had totaled over 90GB in
about 5 days. :) Isn't it GREAT ?? :) Thanks again Jon.
This is the (long awaited) english version :)
About the Live CD
The liveCD is gnome-based only.
ISO size: 671.4 MB
License: same as Fedora Core 5 Test 3
Some New Features:
* Choice of keyboard layout, netconfig and timezone
* some new Boot Parameters
(As RahulSundaram suggested before, "test" is renamed to "debug").
* boot param to boot from harddisk
* 2 Users : root and fedora both having "livecd" as password
* For user "root", marketing materials on the desktop which might be
helpful for Fedora Ambassadors.: (handouts (en,fr),a presentation of
gregdek, 2 videos of DavidNalley)
* use of splash.lss of the FC5T3 DVD
*using F{1,4,5} keys to describe Fedora Project, the License and
Optional commands
* specify that this is a Fedora Core Live CD during the booting process
* Among the default FC5T3 packages, the following packages have been
updated : firefox (1.5.5.0.1-7), fedora-logos (1.1.4.2-1),
redhat-artwork (0.241-1) and redhat-menus (6.7.5-1)
Once again, Im pointing out that not all packages could be included in
this Livecd :(
Ill update the builds wiki later on, once I get myself some sleep :)
Filip will give the link later on.
Ambassadors should not forget this
=============================
For user "root", marketing materials on the desktop which might be
helpful for Fedora Ambassadors.: (handouts (en,fr),a presentation of
gregdek, 2 videos of DavidNalley)
=============================
Visit my blog http://clunixchit.blogspot.com
and
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ChitleshGoorah/builds
Cheers,
Chitlesh GOORAH
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http://clunixchit.blogspot.com
18 years, 1 month
Re: Kadischi - RPM/SRPMS
by J. Hartline
Chitlesh
I've removed the references to the RPM/SRPMS as they do not conform to
Fedora Extras packaging guidelines.
Also I think it is proper to ask a user's permission before posting a
contributor's name on the wiki.
In the Kadischi/FAQ you see I've given credit to "ignacio" who is also a
member on the wiki though I explicitly
asked him if I could, it is only fair. I've also removed your name, if
you feel it is neccessary to have your name there
with a reference to the RPM/SRPMS for FC4 for Kadischi that is fine.. I
have removed it for now
since the spec file will be rewritten to conform to standards.
This will probably be done sometime after we can get some things
committed here in a few days.
It is in my plans of todos for the Kadischi application.
Thanks.
J. Hartline
18 years, 1 month
Kadischi - Xen & Bootsplash - patch
by J. Hartline
Hi.
I've changed the patch a bit for using Xen and bootsplash files for
Kadischi.
The patch is attached below along with the Makefile.am configure.ac and
bootsplash/Makefile.am.
See how this works out for you.
If there are any further modifications that need to be done let me know.
Chitlesh, until I add bootsplash to CVS with the respective files you
will need to add the files yourself.
(memtest, isolinux.txt, splash.lss, f1.txt, f4.txt, f5.txt, etc and f2
and f3.txt if we can get those soon.)
If at all possible try to get someone from the Docs comittee to proof
and comment on
wording, etc so we can eventually get your files and these things committed.
1) Top level Makefile.am patch
2) Top level configure.ac patch
3) livecd_generator/install-boot.sh patch
4) kadischi/bootsplash/Makefile.am
Thanks.
J. Hartline
bootsplashdir = $(pkgdatadir)/bootsplash
bootsplash_DATA = memtest splash.lss isolinux.txt f1.txt f4.txt f5.txt
uninstall-hook:
rmdir $(bootsplashdir)
18 years, 1 month
What to commit to CVS:
by Chitlesh GOORAH
On 3/14/06, J. Hartline <jasperhartline(a)adelphia.net> wrote:
> I think we need to go ahead and get these committed, bringing Kadischi
> up to speed with FC5
> which is inevitably going to be released is in my opinion more important.
>
> If not, some blocks could be put in to actually make Kadischi work with
> FC4 OR FC5(Final).
> What do you think Chitlesh?
Fedora Core 5 will be soon knocking on our doors.
I remind that for each release, Fedora Core provides the cutting edge
technology.
Since The Kadischi Project is part of the Fedora Project, Kadischi
should eventually be updated to satisfy any user using Fedora Core 5.
As Kadischi is in development stage, I suggest that the CVS version of
Kadischi provides full compatibility to Fedora Core 5 without the need
to patch whatsoever.
Nevertheless, a RPM/SRPM would be enough for FC4 users.
I agree with Jasper to get the CVS version tuned for FC5 and a RPM for FC4.
Afterwards, the documentation needs to be updated to fit the related
changes made in CVS.
Chitlesh
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18 years, 1 month
yum note at wiki
by Filip Tsachev
I don't have FC4, but is the info bellow still necessary? If not, I'd
suggest to strip it.
YUM Note
You might be encounter following warning message during installing
anaconda package:
# yum install anaconda
...
warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e
public key not available for anaconda-help-10.1.0-1.noarch.rpm
Retrieving GPG key from file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
The GPG key at file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora (0x4F2A6FD2)
is already installed but is not the correct key for this package.
Check that this is the correct key for the "Fedora Core 4 - i386 -
Base" repository.
--
Cheers,
Filip
18 years, 1 month
kadischi-fc5tx.patch
by Filip Tsachev
I just cvsed up-to-date my copy,
patch for mkinitrd just went on without any output, but:
# patch -b /usr/local/share/kadischi/kadischi.py kadischi-fc5tx.patch
patching file /usr/local/share/kadischi/kadischi.py
patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line
patch: **** malformed patch at line 25:
#cat -n kadischi-fc5tx.patch
22 cleanup (builddir)
23
24 flc_log ('Finished.')
25 -sys.exit (0)
26 \ No newline at end of file
27 +sys.exit (0)
and resulting in:
*** running anaconda ***
Error bad argument --livecd: unknown option
*** Fatal error: anaconda returned non zero (65280) exit code.
Aborting execution.
Cleaning up temporary files...
Done.
how to fix the situation, am I doing something wrong?
--
Cheers,
Filip
18 years, 1 month
