[arch-releng] automated iso builds

Dieter Plaetinck dieter at plaetinck.be
Wed Feb 17 16:50:33 EST 2010


On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:58:14 -0300
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:

> On 02/09/2010 06:28 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> > so i blew the dust of our releng chroots, updated them, installed
> > latest archiso from git and so on.
> >
> > i built this experimental isolinux image (with testing repo
> > enabled!), basically to see if everything still works.
> > http://build.archlinux.org/isos/archlinux-2010.02.09-netinstall-i686.iso
> >
> > through incremental updates, continuous integration and
> > crowd-sourced testing i want to set up automated builds and host
> > all media in the cloud.  (if you know what i mean ;-)
> >
> > btw: the image sort of boots, but it can't find /dev/archiso.
> >
> > /me off. to be continued.
> >
> > Dieter
> >
> >    
> I tested the image and does not boot. Seems that you have an old 
> enviroment, the initramfs is created with new archiso* hooks but is
> with mkinitcpio-0.5....
> 
> 

fwiw.
I built a new image
http://build.archlinux.org/isos/archlinux-2010.02.17-netinstall-i686.iso
I updated the chroot again (mkinitcpio 0.6.2-1), built the image
without having testing enabled, but the problem is the same as last
time. (/dev/archiso did not appear in 30s)

Dieter


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