I ran a small script from the portage repo called tabcheck.py against the
catalyst source, and I was quite frightened by what I saw. I'm sure there is a
lot more that it didn't fine, but I've done some cleanup. A patch against SVN
is attached.
OK, here's what I get after applying this patch...
vertigo i686 # catalyst -a -f livecd-stage1-large.spec
Gentoo Catalyst, version 2.0.2
Copyright 2003-2006 The Gentoo Foundation
Distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2
Using default Catalyst configuration file, /etc/catalyst/catalyst.conf
Setting sharedir to config file value "/usr/lib/catalyst"
Setting snapshot_cache to default value "/var/tmp/catalyst/snapshot_cache"
Setting hash_function to config file value "crc32"
Setting storedir to config file value "/var/tmp/catalyst"
Setting portdir to default value "/usr/portage"
Setting distdir to config file value "/usr/portage/distfiles"
Setting options to config file value "autoresume kerncache pkgcache seedcache
snapcache"
Autoresuming support enabled.
Kernel cache support enabled.
Package cache support enabled.
Seed cache support enabled.
Snapshot cache support enabled.
Envscript support enabled.
Using target: livecd-stage1
Building on amd64 for alternate machine type x86
Source path set to /var/tmp/catalyst/tmp/default/stage3-i686-desktop-2007.0/
If this is not desired, remove this directory or turn of seedcache in
the options of catalyst.conf
the source path will then be
/var/tmp/catalyst/builds/default/stage3-i686-desktop-2007.0.tar.bz2
Caching snapshot to /var/tmp/catalyst/snapshot_cache/2007.0/
The autoresume path is
/var/tmp/catalyst/tmp/default/.autoresume-livecd-stage1-i686-installer-2007.0/
Catalyst aborting....
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/catalyst", line 384, in ?
build_target(addlargs, targetmap)
File "/usr/bin/catalyst", line 200, in build_target
mytarget=targetmap[addlargs["target"]](conf_values, addlargs)
File "/usr/lib/catalyst/modules/livecd_stage1_target.py", line 15, in
__init__
generic_stage_target.__init__(self,spec,addlargs)
File "/usr/lib/catalyst/modules/generic_stage_target.py", line 183, in
__init__
print "Location of the package cache is " + self.settings["pkgcache_path"]
KeyError: 'pkgcache_path'
(I hate python tracebacks... ;p)
