[umlbuilder-devel] 1.50-0 available for test

[Roger B. <ro...@ro...>]

There is now a test build of 1.50 available.

  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/umlbuilder/umlbuilder-1.50-0.i386.rpm?download

It requires a more recent UML than the last official RPM on the
UML page (2.4.19-5)  Various UML options for specifying a root
hostfs were arbitrarily changed in an incompatible fashion
and I don't know what the exact point was.

If you don't have a recent UML, I suggest you make one based on
the instructions in http://umlbuilder.sourceforge.net/umlcustom.shtml
The short version:

   - Install the old UML RPM (2.4.19-5)
   - Run: CONFIGCOPY=yes rpmbuild -bb uml-custom.spec
   - Uninstall old UML RPM
   - Install your brand spanking new one

The main new feature is support of a Redhat 9 profile.  The main new
issue is that routing isn't setup correctly.  X won't work as a result
either.  Please report any other problems you encounter here.

Also note that I have been seeing sporadic hangs of UML especially on
a Redhat 8 host.  These are not umlbuilder bugs!  I haven't had any
hangs on a Redhat 9 host, but I use it far less.

There are two new easy ways of debugging some stuff.  Set them as
environment variables before running umlbuilder:

  DEBUGMINIROOT  shows you the shell commands as the miniroot runs
                 when it installs modules and makes the initrd
  
  DEBUGINSTALLFS leaves the installfs directory tree behind after
                 the install is done

Roger