I just installed catalyst 1.1.1 and am attempting to go through the build process; the eventual goal is a custom LiveCD. I made it through the "snapshot" part, but catalyst -f stage1.spec died with the following message: ** Skipping packages. Run 'fixpackages' or set it in FEATURES to fix the tbz2's in the packages directory. Note: This can take a very long time. !!! Error: --newuse is an invalid option. !!! catalyst: build script failed !!! catalyst: Stage build aborting due to error. !!! catalyst: could not complete build Here's the spec file: ## generic installation stage specfile ## used to build a stage1, stage2, or stage3 installation tarball ## John Davis <zhen@gentoo.org> # subarch can be any of the supported Catalyst subarches (like athlon-xp). Refer # to the catalyst reference manual (http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst) for supported arches. # example: # subarch: athlon-xp subarch: i686 # version stamp is an identifier for the build. can be anything you want it to be, but it # is usually a date. # example: # version_stamp: 2004.2 version_stamp: 20041113-znmeb # target specifies what type of build Catalyst is to do. check the catalyst reference manual # for supported targets. # example: # target: stage2 target: stage1 # rel_type defines what kind of build we are doing. usually, default will suffice. # example: # rel_type: default rel_type: default # system profile used to build the media # example: # profile: default-x86-2004.0 profile: science-i686-2004.2 # which snapshot to use # example: # snapshot: 20040614 snapshot: 20041113-znmeb # where the seed stage comes from, path is relative to $clst_sharedir (catalyst.conf) # example: # default/stage3-x86-2004.1 source_subpath: default/stage3-i686-2004.2
More clues -- it breaks the same way with catalyst 1.1.0. I'm trying it with 1.0.9, and it looks like it has gotten past the breaking point.
try using a 2004.3 stage3 or rolling your own stage3 with catalyst. the version of portage in the 2004.2 tarball does not contain an up-to-date version of portage (which honors the --newuse option)
