Bug 44166

Summary:	catalyst does not use relative paths for livecd-stage2
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) <wolf31o2>
Component:	[OLD] Development	Assignee:	John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) <zhen>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-09 11:46:19 UTC

I had to enter absolute paths for my livecd-stage2 spec file (on x86) for catalyst to find the files.  This is with the latest version in portage (1.0.4).

I would think it would work with paths relative to sharedir.

Comment 1 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-12 04:58:03 UTC

what files, specifically?

Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-12 06:47:58 UTC

Well...

catalyst: Cannot locate specified livecd/cdtar: livecd/cdtar/isolinux-2.08-cdtar.tar.bz2 (2nd try)

livecd/cdtar

catalyst: Cannot locate specified livecd/archscript: livecd/runscript/x86-archscript.sh (2nd try)

livecd/archscript

catalyst: Cannot locate specified livecd/runscript: livecd/runscript/default-runscript-with-x.sh (2nd try)

livecd/runscript

catalyst: Can't find kernel config: livecd/kconfig/config-2.6.3-gentoo-gamecd-x86

boot/kernel/gentoo/config

Setting absolute paths in these allow catalyst to build.

Comment 3 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-23 17:34:33 UTC

i don't think that this is a problem. absolute paths are more secure and portable than relative ones.

Comment 4 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-24 03:52:29 UTC

No problem... just that everything else took relative paths so I figured the input should be consistent.  I would think that both should be acceptable.