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[arch-releng] archiso2: rewrite of archiso-live for linux-live to be in initramfs
by Christopher Rogers 09 Jul '10

09 Jul '10

I made a rewrite of archiso2 so that linux-live scripts are in initramfs. The method i use is make /new_root mounted under tmpfs and then copy the initramfs files into /new_root. Outsite of some 10 lines of code need for linuxrc script to work everything works like it should on the livecd. Need to added find and tr to busybox. Features in archiso2: * Modular support without isomounts. * findiso boot option for people with gurb2 * most of slax support is there like changes boot option works * cdname boot option is so you can change the LIVECDNAME variable in liblinuxlive (helps in making custom livecd to have different data folder names) * modpath boot option to bind mount folder from hard drive to your livecd to load external modules from other disks * baseonly boot option so you just use modules in the base folder In profile * remove crap in livecd modules with list/remove file * remove some locale in list/rmlocale * move stuff from base modules to a module (a.099.modmove) in modules folder archiso2 archiso-live branch: http://github.com/godane/archiso2/tree/archiso-live archiso2 wiki: http://wiki.github.com/godane/archiso2/ official archiso is in master branch. I hope this helps everyone with development on archiso.

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[arch-releng] [PATCH] archiso hook: umount /bootmnt if copytoram=y
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 08 Jul '10

08 Jul '10

More generic way than current method, and fix if logic (inverted). Takes the same actions independent of medium (disk/cdrom). Signed-off-by: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386(a)yahoo.com.ar> --- archiso/hooks/archiso | 14 ++++---------- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/archiso/hooks/archiso b/archiso/hooks/archiso index ae98231..c7a6829 100644 --- a/archiso/hooks/archiso +++ b/archiso/hooks/archiso @@ -141,16 +141,10 @@ archiso_mount_handler() { fi done < "${isomounts}" - # Bind our bootmnt dir into the live system - _mnt_bind /bootmnt "${newroot}/bootmnt" - - if [ "${copytoram}" != "y" ]; then - if [ "${FSTYPE}" = "iso9660" ] || [ "${FSTYPE}" = "udf" ]; then - if [ -d /proc/sys/dev/cdrom ]; then - echo 0 > /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/lock - echo 0 > /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/autoeject - fi - fi + if [ "${copytoram}" = "y" ]; then + /bin/umount /bootmnt + else + _mnt_bind /bootmnt "${newroot}/bootmnt" fi } -- 1.7.1.1

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[arch-releng] I'm away from July 14 to July 28
by Dieter Plaetinck 04 Jul '10

04 Jul '10

From July 14 - 28 I'll be in Toronto, Canada (Archcon!) Devs who know what they are doing can update my stuff. Probably no need for it though. more info: http://dieter.plaetinck.be/off_to_toronto_july_14-28_Archcon Dieter

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[arch-releng] [PATCH] [syslinux-iso] Update URL of mirrorlist matching new archweb change
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 03 Jul '10

03 Jul '10

Signed-off-by: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386(a)yahoo.com.ar> --- configs/syslinux-iso/Makefile | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/configs/syslinux-iso/Makefile b/configs/syslinux-iso/Makefile index 0d95b32..8990f0f 100644 --- a/configs/syslinux-iso/Makefile +++ b/configs/syslinux-iso/Makefile @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ $(WORKDIR)/iso/boot/archiso.img: mkinitcpio.conf $(WORKDIR)/root-image/.arch-chr overlay: mkdir -p $(WORKDIR)/overlay/etc/pacman.d cp -r overlay $(WORKDIR)/ - wget -O $(WORKDIR)/overlay/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist http://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/$(ARCH)/all/ + wget -O $(WORKDIR)/overlay/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist http://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/all/ sed -i "s/#Server/Server/g" $(WORKDIR)/overlay/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist -- 1.7.1.1

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[arch-releng] [PATCH 0/2] Add support to split-out "any" packages for dual images.
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 02 Jul '10

02 Jul '10

Saves about ~11MB Patches avail at git://github.com/djgera/archiso.git in "djgera" branch.

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Re: [arch-releng] archiso
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 02 Jul '10

02 Jul '10

On 07/01/2010 06:57 PM, Pascal wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using archiso: very good job! Oh yes works very well, but is not my job, I am just a eventually contributor. > When you do an > apropos something > in the iso, there's no result... > So in my makefile there's a > chroot $(WORKDIR)/root-image /usr/bin/mandb -qc > > May be directly in archiso... > That is true. But there is one issue with iso images sizes (core-dual.iso) 1) current (2010.05) official media is 659MB, so addding "1.7MB+compression" is not an issue. 2) current (today generated images 2010.07.01) is 702MB!. Size is over 2MB of the allowed limit for a CD-ROM, adding more data become a problem++. Anyway if big size is a problem for next iso, I think that dual images need to be generated with archiso2dual "-T split" instead of (like now) "-T basic" (man-db -qc can be run inside the live environment, just take about 1 minute) CC: to arch-releng to notify about space issue for next snapshot images. -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi \cos^2\alpha + \sin^2\alpha = 1

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[arch-releng] [PATCH 9/9] [archiso] Rewrite cleanup step in mkarchiso
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 01 Jul '10

01 Jul '10

Currently works partially since in bash "*" is not expanded. Old dirs removed, always empty dirs removed from list. Also cleanup sync databases from pacman 3.4.0, avoiding problems with pacman -Sy since "sync" directory is deleted. Signed-off-by: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386(a)yahoo.com.ar> --- archiso/mkarchiso | 15 ++++++++------- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/archiso/mkarchiso b/archiso/mkarchiso index b40eedd..2ec1a75 100755 --- a/archiso/mkarchiso +++ b/archiso/mkarchiso @@ -149,13 +149,14 @@ to the iso/ directory. fi fi - # delete a lot of unnecessary cache/log files - kill_dirs="var/abs var/cache/man var/cache/pacman var/lib/pacman/sync var/log/* var/mail tmp/* initrd" - for x in ${kill_dirs}; do - if [ -e "${work_dir}/root-image/${x}" ]; then - rm -rf "${work_dir}/root-image/${x}" - fi - done + # Delete pacman database sync cache files (*.tar.gz) + find "${work_dir}/root-image/var/lib/pacman" -maxdepth 1 -type f -delete + # Delete pacman database sync cache + find "${work_dir}/root-image/var/lib/pacman/sync" -delete + # Delete pacman package cache + find "${work_dir}/root-image/var/cache/pacman/pkg" -type f -delete + # Delete all log files, keeps empty dirs. + find "${work_dir}/root-image/var/log" -type f -delete fi } -- 1.7.1

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