Re: [sisuite-users] Building SystemImager on CentOS 6.2?

[Ole H. N. <Ole...@fy...>]

LAHAYE Olivier <oli...@ce...> wrote:
> I've built the rpm on CentOS-6.2. The resulting rpms seems ok. As I'm porting OSCAR on CentOS-6.2, I've been able to build client images so far, but I can't tell if the resulting image is fully functionnal as systemimage-oscar fail to generate the KERNEL0 line in /var/lib/systemimager/images/<imagename>/etc/systemconfig/systemconfig.conf (problem outside these rpms)
>
> To build the rpms, just look for the missing archive names in google and download the archive into /usr./src directory.
> Note that (sadly) you have to be root to build the rpms as the rpm needs mknode if I'm correct and I didn't find time to look at this issue and have the rpm buildable as non-root.
>
> Although, it would be cool if the source repository could be updated as it's a pain in the ass to google and fetch the correct sources archives and copy those in the /usr/src directory.

I've made a bit of progress towards building the SI RPMs on an RHEL6.2 
server, but I didn't make it to the goal yet:

1. I copied the downloaded sources from 
/root/rpmbuild/BUILD/systemimager-4.3.0/initrd_source/src/ to the 
permanent place /usr/src/. Strangely, today the correct e2fsprogs can be 
downloaded successfully (it was absent yesterday).

2. The next missing download is a kernel source file 
http://download.systemimager.org/pub/linux/linux_2.6.34.1.orig.tar.gz. 
So I grabbed a similar file from 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ and renamed it with the 
.orig (probably a no-no!). The kernel.org version seems to build, but I 
had to answer a bunch of configure questions.

3. Next failure occurs when building parted-2.3:
...
checking for dm_task_create in -ldevmapper... no
configure: error: libdevmapper could not be found, but is required for the
--enable-device-mapper option, which is enabled by default.  Either disable
device-mapper support with --disable-device-mapper or download and install
device-mapper from:
	http://sources.redhat.com/dm/
FYI, our RHEL6.2 server does have the device-mapper 32- and 64-bit RPMs 
installed with /lib/libdevmapper.so.1.02.

Question: Am I on the right track, or is there a better way to build the 
SI RPMs?

Thanks a lot,
Ole

-- 
Ole Holm Nielsen
Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark