Bug 32794 – net-misc/pxes ebuild need lil changes to work well

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description José Alberto Suárez López (RETIRED) 2003-11-05 06:38:28 UTC]

the pxes ebuild miss a lot files from the pxes-base necessary for the correct
creation of the initrd image. The files missed are in the "stock" dir.

You must add a new depend entry like this:
cdr? app-cdr/cdrtools
why? pxes needs mkisofs to build an iso image

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge pxes
2.pxesconfig and burn the iso file
3.boot with the iso file

Actual Results:  
the ebuild dont copy all necesary files from the tgz to the system

Expected Results:  
a non corrupted initrd image with all necesary files

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3190149&forum_id=9011 <-
here you can see an email in the pxes mail-list about how pxesconfig doestn
works in gentoo, you are in the thread too :P

[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2003-11-05 06:57:20 UTC]

I'll look into this, but I honestly might just wait since Diego is looking
to release 0.7 in the next week or so.  What is strange is that I am using
this ebuild myself and it works perfectly.  The main concern is to ensure
that you change the ramdisk_size in the tftpboot/pxes/pxelinux.cfg/default
file if using PXE.

I will go ahead and add the cdr? depend to the ebuild.  Also, with 0.7, I
plan on separating the ebuild into several ebuilds.  This way I can incorporate
patches from the mailing-list better to solve any issues that we find between
releases.

[Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2003-11-05 07:26:22 UTC]

What files is it missing?

There *is* no /bin/startx file in the distribution.  It is created during
boot from the startx.tpl file.

Also, I made the change for the cdr USE flag and checked it into CVS.

[Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2003-11-20 08:17:46 UTC]

I added a PXES-0.7 to ~x86.  Please check and see if this fixes your issue.

[Comment 4 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-04-03 10:29:39 UTC]

Well, there are now 2 versions neer than 0.6-r4 in CVS, so I'm closing this since it has been so long.  Please try out pxes-0.8 and see if it meets your needs.