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[arch-releng] Update needed to releng scripts
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 17 Jun '11

17 Jun '11

Hello Dieter I want some coordination with you to merge my dm-snapshot branch in master (archiso) so you can change releng scripts. Detailed manually build steps are here [#1] If you need more info please let me know. Basically the changes are (from build view): ---- Single ISOs ---- * Deprecated configs/syslinux-iso in favour to configs/releng * configs/releng uses a bash script instead of make * Equivalence of commands is: make net-iso -> ./build.sh net_iso_single make core-iso -> ./build.sh core_iso_single make [all] -> ./build.sh all_iso_single make clean -> ./build.sh clean_single * Note: Like with previous method, after building "core", if you build "netinstall" you get a "core" iso called "netinstall". (TODO: I need to fix this in a easy way) * Important: inside the chroot you need one loopback device available (@1) ---- Dual ISOs ---- * Deprecated archiso2dual script in favour of configs/releng/build.sh * While archiso2dual use *.iso images, build.sh use the result of ./build.sh *_iso_single commands, in other words join ${work_dir}/${arch}/iso (via hardlinks). * No more profiles (single, split, full), since the work of profile "split" is now done for single images. * build.sh accept these commands for doing dual images. ./build.sh net_iso_dual ./build.sh core_iso_dual ./build.sh all_iso_dual ./build.sh clean_dual * These commands does not trigger the build of single images. You need to do it before. * No issues if execute first "core" then "netinstall" (I managed it in this case) * No loopback device is needed for this step. (@1) Create one, for example "mknod /dev/loop1032 b 7 1032" for 32 bit chroot and loop1064 for 64 bits (of course this will work only if loop module is loaded without any parameters that limit the number of loop devices or set number of partitions). [#1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Djgera#archiso -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi \cos^2\alpha + \sin^2\alpha = 1

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[arch-releng] ArchWiki: merge Official and Beginners' Guides? (or change titles)
by Dario Giovannetti 16 Jun '11

16 Jun '11

This discussion was started in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Talk:Official_Arch_Linux_Install_Guide… What do you think of merging the Beginners' Guide and the Official Arch Linux Install Guide into a unified Installation Guide? In my opinion having 2 separate installation guides on the wiki only creates confusion for beginners who wonder why they are directed to an "unofficial" guide, and is of no help for experienced users. This gets reinforced by the fact that the Official Guide is rarely maintained, and almost if not all of its content is already duplicated in the Beginners' Guide. Also, wiki users tend to report bugs in the Official Guide in its talk page, instead of posting to the releng team. I would then link the guide in git from the new unified article. In alternative to all this, I'd propose to change the titles of the two guides to something like "Installation Tutorial" (or Guide) in place of the Beginners', and "Quick installation reference" (or Guide, or Notes) in place of the Official. Dario

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[arch-releng] archiso2dual becoming obsolete?
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 16 Jun '11

16 Jun '11

Hello, I will deprecate this tool. Since in few days with dm-snapshot (if become to master), the directory scheme for isos is "dual friendly". Instead of reworking archiso2dual I will push this feature integrated into "configs/releng/build.sh" avoiding some code duplication. My idea is build them directly from "${work_dir}/iso" instead of mounting isos, then do lots of tasks depending on profile selected and finally build dual-iso. So the workflow can be something like (under 64 bit): * 0) bind mount bind some directory so can be shared between two chroots (32 and 64). * 1) build 32 bits isos under chroot (work_dir will be work/i686) * 2) build 64 bits isos under chroot (work_dir will be work/x86_64) * 3) build dual isos in any chroot. (work_dir will be work/dual) opinions? -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi \cos^2\alpha + \sin^2\alpha = 1

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Re: [arch-releng] Iso tests
by Dieter Plaetinck 15 Jun '11

15 Jun '11

I fetched Tom's latest testresults branch, followed all instructions in the README - all steps executed fine with the exception of https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23228 -, But when I go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/isotests/ I get: DatabaseError at /isotests/ no such column: isotests_test.architecture_id Request Method: GET Request URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/isotests/ Django Version: 1.2.4 Exception Type: DatabaseError Exception Value: no such column: isotests_test.architecture_id here's some more output from during the setup part: (archweb-env)17:54:44 dieter@ws archweb testresults ? diff local_settings.py.example local_settings.py 4c4 < DEBUG = False --- > DEBUG = True 12,13c12,13 < #DATABASE_ENGINE = 'sqlite3' < #DATABASE_NAME = 'archweb.db' --- > DATABASE_ENGINE = 'sqlite3' > DATABASE_NAME = 'archweb.db' 24c24 < CACHE_BACKEND = 'memcached://127.0.0.1:11211' --- > #CACHE_BACKEND = 'memcached://127.0.0.1:11211' (archweb-env)17:54:47 dieter@ws archweb testresults ? ./manage.py syncdb 1 ↵ Syncing... Creating table isotests_hardwaretype The following content types are stale and need to be deleted: isotests | hardware Any objects related to these content types by a foreign key will also be deleted. Are you sure you want to delete these content types? If you're unsure, answer 'no'. Type 'yes' to continue, or 'no' to cancel: yes No fixtures found. Synced: > django.contrib.auth > django.contrib.contenttypes > django.contrib.messages > django.contrib.sessions > django.contrib.sites > django.contrib.sitemaps > django.contrib.admin > django.contrib.markup > devel > public > south > isotests Not synced (use migrations): - main - mirrors - news - packages (use ./manage.py migrate to migrate these) (archweb-env)17:55:09 dieter@ws archweb testresults ? ./manage.py migrate Running migrations for main: - Migrating forwards to 0042_auto__del_field_packagefile_path. > packages:0004_auto__add_license > packages:0005_move_license_data > main:0038_add_depends_optional_description > main:0039_auto__del_field_package_license > main:0040_split_package_files > main:0041_move_package_files_data > main:0042_auto__del_field_packagefile_path - Loading initial data for main. No fixtures found. Running migrations for mirrors: - Nothing to migrate. - Loading initial data for mirrors. No fixtures found. Running migrations for news: - Nothing to migrate. - Loading initial data for news. No fixtures found. Running migrations for packages: - Nothing to migrate. - Loading initial data for packages. No fixtures found. (archweb-env)17:55:23 dieter@ws archweb testresults ? ./manage.py loaddata main/fixtures/arches.json Installing json fixture 'main/fixtures/arches' from absolute path. Installed 3 object(s) from 1 fixture(s) (archweb-env)17:55:29 dieter@ws archweb testresults ? ./manage.py loaddata main/fixtures/repos.json Installing json fixture 'main/fixtures/repos' from absolute path. Installed 7 object(s) from 1 fixture(s) (archweb-env)17:55:34 dieter@ws archweb testresults ? ./manage.py loaddata main/fixtures/groups.json Installing json fixture 'main/fixtures/groups' from absolute path. Problem installing fixture 'main/fixtures/groups.json': Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/dieter/workspaces/eclipse/archweb-env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/loaddata.py", line 169, in handle for obj in objects: File "/home/dieter/workspaces/eclipse/archweb-env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/serializers/json.py", line 38, in Deserializer for obj in PythonDeserializer(simplejson.load(stream), **options): File "/home/dieter/workspaces/eclipse/archweb-env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/serializers/python.py", line 105, in Deserializer m2m_data[field.name] = [m2m_convert(pk) for pk in field_value] File "/home/dieter/workspaces/eclipse/archweb-env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/serializers/python.py", line 100, in m2m_convert return field.rel.to._default_manager.db_manager(db).get_by_natural_key(*value).pk File "/home/dieter/workspaces/eclipse/archweb-env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/models.py", line 50, in get_by_natural_key content_type=ContentType.objects.get_by_natural_key(app_label, model) File "/home/dieter/workspaces/eclipse/archweb-env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/contenttypes/models.py", line 15, in get_by_natural_key ct = self.get(app_label=app_label, model=model) File "/home/dieter/workspaces/eclipse/archweb-env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/manager.py", line 132, in get return self.get_query_set().get(*args, **kwargs) File "/home/dieter/workspaces/eclipse/archweb-env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 347, in get % self.model._meta.object_name) DoesNotExist: ContentType matching query does not exist. (archweb-env)17:55:39 dieter@ws archweb testresults ? ./manage.py loaddata mirrors/fixtures/mirrorprotocols.json Installing json fixture 'mirrors/fixtures/mirrorprotocols' from absolute path. Installed 3 object(s) from 1 fixture(s)

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[arch-releng] [archiso] saying good-bye to union-fs-method?
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

Hi * With 2.6.39 there is no aufs2 support, at least for a long time[#1]. * I think that back in time with unionfs is not desirable, needs a complete kernel patch. * union-fs-fuse does not work good. What about using the method like in Fedora? (basically a device-mapper with a snapshot in tmpfs). This change from file-to-file level to block-to-block logic. I can do some research in my free time if there any interest on this. I am open to all sugestions. Thanks. [#1] http://www.mail-archive.com/aufs-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03315.html -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi \cos^2\alpha + \sin^2\alpha = 1

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[arch-releng] AIF Install Troubles - Encrypted LVM
by Francis L Young III 02 Jun '11

02 Jun '11

I am trying to make an AIF install script by modifying the "fancy-install-on-sda" example. My troubles lie at the very end of line 35. https://github.com/Dieterbe/aif/blob/master/examples/fancy-install-on-sda I want to set the home partition to extend to the remaining free space, but I don't know what token or variable to put there that AIF recognizes as the equivalent of '+100%FREE' (which I have tried with no success). Any suggestions?

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[arch-releng] [RFC] [PATCH] [archiso] Avoid killing nbd-daemon on shutdown.
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 30 May '11

30 May '11

Needs initscripts > 2011.05.2 (not released yet) Signed-off-by: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386(a)yahoo.com.ar> --- archiso/hooks/archiso_pxe_nbd | 2 ++ .../etc/rc.d/functions.d/omit_kill_nbd_client | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 configs/syslinux-iso/overlay/etc/rc.d/functions.d/omit_kill_nbd_client diff --git a/archiso/hooks/archiso_pxe_nbd b/archiso/hooks/archiso_pxe_nbd index f18fd4c..484a27c 100644 --- a/archiso/hooks/archiso_pxe_nbd +++ b/archiso/hooks/archiso_pxe_nbd @@ -86,5 +86,7 @@ archiso_pxe_nbd_mount_handler () { if [ "${copytoram}" = "y" ]; then msg "::: Disconnect NBD from ${nbdserver} at /dev/nbd0" nbd-client -d /dev/nbd0 + else + pidof nbd-client > /run/nbd_client.pid fi } diff --git a/configs/syslinux-iso/overlay/etc/rc.d/functions.d/omit_kill_nbd_client b/configs/syslinux-iso/overlay/etc/rc.d/functions.d/omit_kill_nbd_client new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ce630a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/configs/syslinux-iso/overlay/etc/rc.d/functions.d/omit_kill_nbd_client @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +omit_kill_nbd_client() { + add_omit_pids $(< /run/nbd_client.pid) +} + +add_hook shutdown_prekillall omit_kill_nbd_client +add_hook single_prekillall omit_kill_nbd_client -- 1.7.5.2

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[arch-releng] Off-topic (I have a special announcement for you all!)
by Keith Hinton 26 May '11

26 May '11

This is off topic, but I thought I'd announce it anyhow, even though the event was two days ago. It's May twenty fifth today, but I wanted to let everyone else know on the Arch release team that on The Twenty Third I officailly turned twenty four! So just wanted to let you all know that. I promis you won't see another off-topic post like that, but I wanted to let you all know. Please see that if others don't get around to checking this list that they get to know! :) Thanks, God bLess. Happy Arching! -- Regards, --Keith Website: http://www.keithnet.us Skype: skypedude1234 MSN Messenger: keithint37(a)hotmail.com Yahoo/AIM/Twitter: keithint1234 Facebook: http://facebook.com/keith.hinton1

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[arch-releng] Hi folks. I have a special question for you folks.
by Keith Hinton 25 May '11

25 May '11

Hi folks. This pertains to running Arch on a system (not installing freshly.) Is their any way that developers can test with the packages that the Arch release team gets tp play with in some way on current Arch boxes? Would the testing repositorys for instance work? Thanks! :) -- Regards, --Keith Website: http://www.keithnet.us Skype: skypedude1234 MSN Messenger: keithint37(a)hotmail.com Yahoo/AIM/Twitter: keithint1234 Facebook: http://facebook.com/keith.hinton1

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[arch-releng] [PATCH] clarify that issues should still be reported on the bugtracker
by Dieter Plaetinck 24 May '11

24 May '11

Signed-off-by: Dieter Plaetinck <dieter(a)plaetinck.be> --- releng/views.py | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/releng/views.py b/releng/views.py index 3180a9e..b416a76 100644 --- a/releng/views.py +++ b/releng/views.py @@ -39,7 +39,9 @@ class TestForm(forms.ModelForm): "your blockdevices/filesystems, select which option you took here.", widget=forms.CheckboxSelectMultiple(), required=False) success = forms.BooleanField(help_text="Only check this if everything went fine. " \ - "If you you ran into any errors please specify them in the " \ + "If you you ran into problems please create a ticket on <a \ + href=\"https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?project=6\">the \ + bugtracker</a> (or check that one already exists) and link to it in the " \ "comments.", required=False) website = forms.CharField(label='', widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'style': 'display:none;'}), required=False) -- 1.7.5.1

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