Re: [Gnewsense-dev] gen-livecd failure

[Karl Goetz]

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:03:12 +0200
Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:

As you read through, the reason the bugs I reference weren't there
before is I only filed them today. I've known about them, but not been
bothered (as they were only affecting me)

> Hi!  I've successfully built a distribution using do-update on a
> machine running gnewsense 2.2.  No additional packages were needed
> beyond those mentioned under 'Step 3' on
> <http://www.gnewsense.org/Builder/HowToCreateYourOwnGNULinuxDistribution>
> so the instructions seems fine to me.
> 

Glad to hear. They do need lots of updating, as the last time i fixed
them was probaby > 40 code commits ago.

> The only problem was that the postix package asked me a debconf
> question, despite the DEBIAN_PRIORITY=critical in update-chroot.  I
> assume that is a postfix packaging bug?  I chose 'No configuration'.

Theres a bug about this at http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00274

> 
> However, using gen-livecd fails, see output below.  Any ideas?  There

This is bug http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00275
The META_*  namespace used to have a mix of hard coded gnewsense and
${DISTRONAME_L}. We (well, I) decided to change them all to
${DISTRONAME_L}. Since the custom packages are stored in
packages/deltah/ and are all hard coded to *gnewsense* by changing from
'gnewsense' as $DISTRONAME_L without renaming those dirs you lack
distro specific branding, and the cd wont build.
This is just my understanding, I havent tested this heavily to confirm.

> is no package gnonsense-desktop package as far as I can tell.  Btw, my
> distribution is called 'gNonSense'.  Two gnonsense packages appears to
> have been built by do-update:

Its because your distro isn't called 'gnewsense' (see above)

> 
> address@hidden:/scratch/gnonsense/builder#
> echo /scratch/gnonsense/gnonsense/pool/main/g/gnonsense-* 
> /scratch/gnonsense/gnonsense/pool/main/g/gnonsense-artwork 
> /scratch/gnonsense/gnonsense/pool/main/g/gnonsense-meta
> address@hidden:/scratch/gnonsense/builder# 

I'd suggest `ls -lh` or find ;)

> 
> Thanks,
> Simon

Thanks for trying builder :)
kk

> 
> ++ chroot ./chroot-i386 /usr/bin/env -i HOME=/root TERM=xterm
> PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin DEBIAN_PRIORITY=critical apt-get
> install --yes gnonsense-desktop Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> 
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely
> that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   gnonsense-desktop: Depends: gnonsense-artwork but it is not going
> to be installed Depends: gnonsense-gdm-themes but it is not
> installable Depends: usplash-theme-gnonsense but it is not installable
> E: Broken packages
> address@hidden:/scratch/gnonsense/builder# n
> 

-- 
Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian user / gNewSense contributor
http://www.kgoetz.id.au
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