Re: [sisuite-users] SystemImager NG: it works :-)

[LAHAYE O. <oli...@ce...>]

So far,

My rpm builds and tested ok on centos7
It has been built successfully on fedora20 but not tested.
on centos6, it is facing this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182297
This is not centos6 related and will be fixed soon. if I download the package, it builds fine.

Right now, I'm polishing the build. Then I'll cross check the list of binaries that needs to be included so most common user postinstall script can run. I will also include driver firmwares so the generic image will work for most common cases.
As for buzybox, I've chosen to not use it and use core utils instead. The image is bigger, but on common systems this is not an issue anymore. I made this choice because the buzybox package is not available on centos6 and maybe on other distros. This choice is very easy to revert. (either by reenabling buzybox.rul build or by using the os provided package and adding the correct dracut option.

Then I'll test that non systemd based  images still work (I see no reaseon why it wouldn't).

Then I'll update the deb build (minor update is needed (deps and list of files to include))

Stay tuned.

Cheers,

Olivier.
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De : David Livingstone [Dav...@cn...]
Envoyé : lundi 26 janvier 2015 20:00
À : sis...@li...
Objet : Re: [sisuite-users] SystemImager NG: it works :-)

Olivier – Looks great ! Let me know when you have something to test – I’m still using RHEL 6.

Thanks

From: LAHAYE Olivier [mailto:oli...@ce...]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 4:06 AM
To: sis...@li...
Subject: [sisuite-users] SystemImager NG: it works :-)


Hi,

I've finaly updated systemimager to work with host OS binaries instead of rebuilding everything.
This means that now, the initrd template and the default initrd and kernel are generated using dracut and I only build 3 components: cx_freeze, udpcast and bittorrent client. All other binaries are taken from the host OS and are thus in sync with kernel and drivers (which was not the case in previous release were binaries expected to run with boel kernel 3.7.5 were built on a totaly different kernel and in some circumstance were crashing or failing to built.

This is past.

I've not yet pushed to git my changes, because I must do some more testing, but the most difficult things are fixed.
things that still need to be addressed:
- buzybox rpm not available on centos7: do we build it or used standard tools
- need to fix list of binaries that we need
- test.

I hope to release a test rpm in less than 2 weeks, maybe this Friday if I have tilme.

Best regards,

Olivier.

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