Re: lb build failing
> b) upgrade from using trusty to utopic.
Easy solution, I'm not particular about version.
I'll let you know.
Thanks,
Kent
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 7:40 PM, jnqnfe <jnqnfe@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-02-20 at 15:28 -0600, Kent Tenney wrote:
>> My goal is to generate boot cd's with my code available, the distro
>> isn't a big deal, however I'm used to Ubuntu.
>
> Okay, well, considering the issues you're having here, and considering
> that Ubuntu support in live-build is best effort only, and may likely
> break shortly with some particular changes to be added to live-build
> which are incompatible with Ubuntu (until they get their act together on
> archive layout), it might be best for you to switch to Debian for this.
>
>> Right, the germane package seems to be syslinux
>> 'aptitude search isolinux' returns
>> ...
>> syslinux-common: /usr/lib/syslinux/isolinux.bin
>> ...
>>
>> and with syslinux installed, 'locate isolinux' returns
>> ...
>> /usr/share/live/build/bootloaders/isolinux
>> /usr/share/live/build/bootloaders/isolinux/install.cfg
>> /usr/share/live/build/bootloaders/isolinux/isolinux.bin
>> /usr/share/live/build/bootloaders/isolinux/isolinux.cfg
>> /usr/share/live/build/bootloaders/isolinux/live.cfg.in
>> /usr/share/live/build/bootloaders/isolinux/menu.cfg
>> /usr/share/live/build/bootloaders/isolinux/splash.svg.in
>> /usr/share/live/build/bootloaders/isolinux/stdmenu.cfg
>> /usr/share/live/build/bootloaders/isolinux/vesamenu.c32
>> ...
>>
>> I've tried to follow the binary_syslinux script without success.
>>
>> Would the output of
>> # strace -etrace=file lb binary_syslinux
>>
>> be of interest?
>
> No, that won't be useful here, thanks anyway. I see the problem though.
>
> Firstly, when I previously searched the Ubuntu archive, I overlooked the
> fact that the search box by default had 'trusty' selected, I think I
> must have assumed it had 'any' selected, which then led me to believe
> that Ubuntu had no isolinux package whatsoever. In fact checking again,
> there is actually an isolinux package in the Ubuntu archives, but only
> for utopic and vivid.
>
> The reason for it being missing for trusty is that the files contained
> in the isolinux package were split out into their own isolinux package
> in (Debian) syslinux v3:6.00~pre4+dfsg-5, as you can see in the
> changelog ([1]):
>
> "Splitting out isolinux into own package for syslinux-installer and
> debian-live usage."
>
> So the syslinux package collection available in the Ubuntu archives for
> trusty must pre-date this.
>
> live-build v4.0.5 expects this isolinux package to exist, and is
> incompatible with the old package setup (it makes no attempt to apply a
> special case for Ubuntu trusty, leaving support for that broken).
>
> So now we know the cause, the solution is either to a) apply a hack to
> live build to get the old package instead of the newer 'isolinux'
> package, or b) upgrade from using trusty to utopic. That is if you don't
> want to switch to Debian.
>
> [1]
> http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/s/syslinux/syslinux_6.03+dfsg-5_changelog
>
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