Bug 73116 – baselayout 1.11.6-r1 not catalyst-compatible

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2004-12-02 02:52:19 UTC]

I just tried a catalyst build using the current ~ baselayout (1.11.6-r1) and encountered two problems.

(1) the new way of handling the passwd/shadow/fstab/group files doesn't play well with how catalyst handles the stage2 -> stage3 transition (i.e. no use build or bootstrap, but still CONFIG_PROTECT=-*). What happens is that when the stage3 upgrades the baselayout, the files are not copied from /usr/share/baselayout to /etc (since they already exist). And then when the old baselayout is unmerged, the files are completely removed.

vapier wrote a quick patch that solved the issue, see next message.

(2) this is a cosmetic problem : when the catalyst-built livecd boots, you get the following error :

Activating (possibly) more swap...       
swapon: cannot stat /dev/SWAP: No such file or directory         [!!]

The old baselayout used (in /etc/init.d/localmount):
 ebegin "Activating (possibly) more swap"
 /sbin/swapon -a &>/dev/null
 eend 0

While the new one uses :
 ebegin "Activating (possibly) more swap"
 /sbin/swapon -a
 eend $?

Reverting to the old-style is maybe not desirable, but adding the "-e" option to swapon to silently ignore non-existing devices might be a good idea. That line doesn't make the livecd boot look very good :)

If you won't fix this, please let me know : it can still be fixed at livecd level by forcing a /etc/fstab with no swap line.

[Comment 1 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2004-12-02 02:53:12 UTC]

Created attachment 45137 [details, diff]
Patch to baselayout ebuild

Patch by vapier to correctly support stage2 -> stage3 catalyst

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2004-12-02 06:26:01 UTC]

i'd prefer to not add the -e line because it has the potential of being a useful debugging message on actual user installations

fixed the fstab/passwd/etc... in cvs