| nebuchadnezzar | hello | 10:00 |
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| nebuchadnezzar | I'm generating custom alternate ISO with cdimage&co and I would like to generate a custom live ISO, but cdimage ask for a production/livefs-builders and I don't know where to get it, do you have any hint? | 10:03 |
| cjwatson | lines in that file look like this: | 10:05 |
| cjwatson | # PROJECT DIST ARCH BUILDER | 10:05 |
| cjwatson | # Put more specific matches first. | 10:05 |
| cjwatson | * * amd64 kapok.buildd | 10:05 |
| cjwatson | you'd need to set up livecd-rootfs at the other end - there's an ssh trigger script in /usr/share/doc/livecd-rootfs/examples/BuildLiveCD.gz that can be installed as a forced command on the builder | 10:06 |
| nebuchadnezzar | I looked at cdimage/lib/livefs.py but I'm not sure how it works, it lookup in livefs-builders and run something on that machine, then download the result? | 10:08 |
| cjwatson | Right | 10:09 |
| cjwatson | The point is that live filesystems have to be generated on the matching architecture, so that requires a build slave | 10:09 |
| cjwatson | Though it can be some hack involving localhost if you want, or you can hack livefs.py to run a script locally if the architecture matches | 10:09 |
| cjwatson | (Which probably ought to be a configuration option in ubuntu-cdimage, really, but it was never something we needed ourselves) | 10:10 |
| nebuchadnezzar | or I could put localhost in the livefs-builder for the matching architecture ;-) | 10:10 |
| cjwatson | If you like; you just need a "buildd" user, with /usr/share/doc/livecd-rootfs/examples/BuildLiveCD.gz installed as /home/buildd/bin/BuildLiveCD | 10:11 |
| nebuchadnezzar | thanks | 10:11 |
| cjwatson | Oh and I think that needs manually creating a livefs chroot too | 10:12 |
| cjwatson | I'd probably start by grabbing the chroot from https://api.launchpad.net/devel/ubuntu/trusty/amd64 or similar, unpacking it so that it's rooted at ~buildd/build-trusty-live/chroot-trusty/, and massaging its sources.list into shape | 10:14 |
| cjwatson | (These days we actually use Launchpad to do the builds) | 10:15 |
| nebuchadnezzar | thanks a lot, I wonder how other derivatives are doing to build their ISO | 10:17 |
| cjwatson | All kinds of strange hacks from what I've gathered :-/ | 10:19 |
| cjwatson | If you'd like to add documentation to ubuntu-cdimage of how to set this up along the way, that would be greatly appreciated | 10:20 |
| nebuchadnezzar | cjwatson: that's an idea, making it more configurable for derivatives could be a great thing too, like having configuration tree with <vendor>/<project>.conf, I actually modify some of the .py files directly | 11:52 |
| CarlFK | nebuchadnezzar: how RH builds isos: http://videos.pumpingstationone.org/video/38/linux-charcuterie-how-the-linux-sausage-is-made "entire chain of building a distribution" | 13:09 |
| nebuchadnezzar | wonderful | 13:25 |
| CarlFK | nebuchadnezzar: oh you said derivatives .. not distros .. but might still be fun to listen to | 13:46 |
| nebuchadnezzar | sure | 13:51 |
| _ruben | is there some trick to get full control over partitioning during a preseeded run, like running a script which does all the lvm stuff, etc? | 14:19 |
| flexiondotorg | cyphermox, I saw you published a new ubiquity in the staging PPA. | 14:48 |
| flexiondotorg | cyphermox, I've tested it. I guessing you know it has issues? | 14:49 |
| nebuchadnezzar | _ruben: I personally use a patched hands-off: http://git.baby-gnu.net/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=hands-off.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/dad/features | 14:50 |
| nebuchadnezzar | _ruben: look at commits after “Add base partman recipe auto generation” | 14:50 |
| nebuchadnezzar | is that what you are looking for? | 14:50 |
| cyphermox | flexiondotorg: what issues? | 14:52 |
| cyphermox | it looked like it was working quite well, and not crashing X at all | 14:53 |
| flexiondotorg | cyphermox, Clicking the "prepare this system" icon on the desktop didn't do anything. | 14:53 |
| flexiondotorg | cyphermox, I ran the command from the shell. Looks like systemd deps failed to resolve. | 14:53 |
| flexiondotorg | cyphermox, I'll ge the exact message... | 14:54 |
| flexiondotorg | oem@oem-VirtualBox:~/Desktop$ oem-config-prepare | 14:55 |
| flexiondotorg | Failed to set default target: No such file or directory | 14:55 |
| flexiondotorg | cyphermox, ^^^^^ | 14:55 |
| cyphermox | doh | 15:29 |
| cyphermox | I forgot to ship a file :) | 15:29 |
| cyphermox | hmm, I didn't forget to ship it, it got ignored | 15:33 |
| flexiondotorg | cyphermox, When you cook a new package let me know :) | 15:39 |
| infinity | cyphermox: Did you commit it? :P | 15:45 |
| cyphermox | infinity: yes, the problem was that dh_installinit ignores .target files | 16:01 |
| infinity | Ahh. | 16:01 |
| cyphermox | flexiondotorg: if you want to try it again ubiquity is all published in my ppa now | 17:00 |
| cyphermox | DOH | 17:01 |
| * cyphermox sighs | 17:01 | |
| cyphermox | it's still kinda wrong | 17:01 |
| _ruben | nebuchadnezzar: it might be, still trying to digest what I'm looking at exactly ;) | 18:34 |
| _ruben | nebuchadnezzar: seems it still revolves around partman, which i was hoping to evade .. then again, perhaps partman has grown since I last researched it and might actually be suited for our various purposes | 18:55 |
| cyphermox | _ruben: what are you trying to do? | 19:07 |
| infinity | _ruben: wikimedia has some nice example recipes using lvm that are good learning tools: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Partman_Recipes | 19:15 |
| _ruben | cyphermox: one of the "gripes" I had with partman, was the inability to control the lvm vg naming (we several standards for those). and most of my "problems" with partman are probably just a matter of not understanding enough of it ;) | 19:19 |
| _ruben | also, stuff like bind mounts arent/werent an option afaik | 19:22 |
| _ruben | (whether or not those are a good idea is another story ;)) | 19:22 |
| cyphermox | I see | 19:22 |
| _ruben | stuff like bind mounts can be fixed post-install relatively easy, but doing during installation would be even cleaner :) | 19:24 |
| _ruben | writing some post-install task to shovel some stuff around still beats having to partition every server manually (rest of install is handled by preseed already) | 19:25 |
| _ruben | infinity: that page looks familiar so I likely ran into it during my research. sure offers a nice starting point. | 19:26 |
| _ruben | perhaps I should just do some trial 'n error configs/installs and see how far I can get with the existing featureset :) | 19:26 |
| _ruben | and on that note, i'm gonna call it a day for now ;) | 19:27 |
| flexiondotorg | cyphermox, Just got back online. Will set up a test system here at home and test... | 21:27 |
| * flexiondotorg hugs cyphermox | 21:27 | |
| cyphermox | cool | 21:28 |
| cyphermox | I'm satisfied with mate now, waiting for a kubuntu install to finish and then I'd be ready for upload unless you come tell me it's broke | 21:28 |
| cyphermox | also, before you do the upgrade please do systemctl disable oem-config | 21:29 |
| cyphermox | there shouldn't be a link to it in /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants | 21:29 |
| flexiondotorg | cyphermox, Understood. | 21:52 |
| * flexiondotorg needs better hardware at home. This is slow.... | 21:52 | |
| cyphermox | hey, so do I | 21:58 |
| cyphermox | I'm at the point where a fourth computer wouldn't hurt so I can run so hardware tests. | 21:59 |
| cyphermox | ... though come to think of it, I have a lenovo craptop that might work well enough | 21:59 |
| flexiondotorg | cyphermox, Once I've test the oem-config stuff is there anything I can do to help with the "restart at end of install" issue/ | 22:09 |
| flexiondotorg | ? | 22:09 |
| cyphermox | not really | 22:10 |
| cyphermox | it needs that casper.service be properly convinced to run at the right moment, which seems to be roughly the case (since it does eject and display the message), and for plymouth-{reboot,halt,poweroff} to be convinced to also run at just the right moment, that is, *after* the display-manager is stopped. | 22:12 |
| cyphermox | and all that is probably going to run after I get back from karate class, I don't intend to miss a fifth week of it :/ | 22:13 |
| flexiondotorg | cyphermox, :) | 22:14 |
| cyphermox | so I'll be leaving in about 10 minutes :) | 22:15 |
| cyphermox | probably just enough time to run the oem-config test on kubuntu | 22:15 |
| flexiondotorg | cyphermox, I'll leave my testing reports here. | 22:15 |
| cyphermox | ok | 22:17 |
| flexiondotorg | cyphermox, Still preparing the VM at home. So slow. | 23:04 |
| flexiondotorg | cyphermox, Past midnight here now. I'll test tomorrow unless you decide it is good to go :) | 23:04 |
| nebuchadnezzar | _ruben: you could set “partman-auto-lvm/new_vg_name” to get the VG name you want | 23:13 |
| nebuchadnezzar | found in: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/partman-auto-lvm.git/tree/perform_recipe_by_lvm | 23:13 |
| flexiondotorg | cyphermox, It was all going so well, then I ended up here - http://imgur.com/hap1Gla | 23:42 |
| flexiondotorg | cyphermox, I did systemctl disable oem-config prior to adding your PPA and apt-get dist-upgrading. | 23:44 |
| flexiondotorg | cyphermox, So, not sure if I've not completed the steps correctly. | 23:44 |
| flexiondotorg | cyphermox, Late here now. So, time for sleeping. | 23:45 |
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