Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 417831
Can't run buildinstall
Last modified: 2008-08-06 16:58:01 EDT
Description of problem: Running buildinstall against the F8 tree yields a multitude of errors. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Copy release tree to '/tmp/test_i386' 2. buildinstall --version 8 --product "Fedora" --release "Fedora Test" --prodpath Packages --discs ALL /tmp/test_i386/os 3. Actual results: Logfile attached. Expected results: Additional info: This same command sequence worked with FC6 and before. I really need to build a "distribution" from adjusted package set and this is the only way I know how. I'm experimenting with the LiveCD path, but that's still to come.
Created attachment 282601 [details] Output/log from buildinstall command
Are you running buildinstall as root? chroot isn't in a regular user's path, which is probably what you're seeing in the error messages.
Yes, of course.
FAOD - I am logged in as root and can run 'chroot' from the same shell/prompt where I run buildinstall. Also, looking at the logs, there are *many* other errors (missing files and directories), syntax errors when running 'sed', etc. Whatever is wrong here, it happens "out of the box". Of course, it could be cockpit/operator error, but I just need to know what's up and how to fix it.
The buildinstall scripts when through a mayor rewrite and what we currently have in f9 is very different from what we had in f8 and before. In the previous releases there where some errors in the output because buildinstall and related scripts were very messy and let some error messages through. ATM we are trying to do our best to patch these error messages by piping everything to /dev/null. Can you please test once more and see if the chroot and sed errors still occur with the current release of f9. Moreover. might want to give revisor and pungi a try. They are, AFAIK, very usefull tools.