Bug 55191 – livecd/overlay copied after runscript cdfs (after mkzftree)

• Product: Gentoo Hosted Projects
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Tavin Cole 2004-06-25 14:43:39 UTC]

I'm not 100% sure of the design goals here, but it seems to me that the livecd/overlay should be copied before runscript cdfs is executed so that the overlay can be included in the compressed filesystem on the CD.  This would be a trivial change;  just put L95-97 of livecd_stage2_target.py before L94 instead of after.

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Tavin Cole 2004-06-25 14:45:07 UTC]

that's 1.0.8.1 btw

[Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-06-25 15:13:39 UTC]

AHH... OK.

This one is INVALID and I'll tell you why.

The design of livecd/overlay is for putting things *uncompressed* on the outside of the loop.  This would be a good place for stages, or a handy README or a copy of the handbook in PDF.  Things someone might want to access without having to boot the CD.

[Comment 3 Chris Bainbridge (RETIRED) 2004-07-11 02:55:29 UTC]

This behaviour does seem odd. How else can you copy files into the root fs before its compressed?

[Comment 4 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-07-11 09:17:44 UTC]

No... the behavior is not odd in the least.  It is doing exactly what it is designed to do, which is add stages/distfiles/handbook/snapshots to the CD so they are accessible without *booting* from the CD.

There is no simple way now to copy non-ebuild files into the loop of the CD without writing your own runscript, which would be my suggestion.