In livecd_stage2_target.py, in the clean function, it appears the function is expecting self.settings["livecd/empty"] to be a string consisting of only one path, or to already be a python list of strings representing paths. However, nothing else comes in the chain of events previous to this point which would convert the string to a python list. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. catalyst --cli --livecd/empty="/usr/share/info /usr/share/man" Actual Results: the following output: /usr/share/info /usr/share/man not a directory or does not exist, skipping 'empty' operation. The fix is simple. When detecting if the value is a string, the resulting action should be to split the string into a list of strings, rather than simply convert it to a list of one string. Change line 152 of livecd_stage2_target.py to the following: self.settings["livecd/empty"]=self.settings["livecd/empty"].split()
Catalyst in CVS is quite a bit different from catalyst 1.x, so I'll need to locate where this actually is and make the changes. It looks like it is in generic_stage_target.py, since both livecd-stage2 and the stage4 target can perform an empty operation. rocket: What do you think?
catalyst2 -a -f /2.6.14-new/specs_and_scripts/ppc64-livecd-stage2-minimal.spec - -cli livecd/empty="/usr/share/info /usr/share/man" Running action sequence: empty Emptying directory /usr/share/info Emptying directory /usr/share/man This works in catalyst2
Since the catalyst 2.0_rc* series is no longer in package.mask, I am marking this one as RESOLVED...
