[Live-demo] Status of full osgeolive 6.5?

Alex Mandel tech_dev at wildintellect.com
Sat Feb 23 13:25:35 PST 2013


Chatted with Angelos, we think we know the issue. He had put the
installers into the squash instead of next to it, which grew the squash
above 4GB which isn't normally supported on a normal ISO cd without udf
specifically turned on.

We'll fix the script and try again.

Thanks,
Alex

On 02/23/2013 01:16 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:
> Something isn't right, after I worked around the hard coded paths that
> didn't match my system it gave and error about size at the last step.
> It sounds like it might be overridable with a flag to the geniso but
> that might also result in file that's too big to burn.
> 
> "File ./casper/filesystem.squashfs is larger than 4GiB-1.
> -allow-limited-size was not specified. There is no way do represent this
> file size. Aborting."
> 
> The script cleaned itself up so I can't inspect the "bad" squashfs size.
> 
> Log is up
> http://osprey.ucdavis.edu/downloads/osgeo/gisvm/6.5nightly/build_debug_full-12.log
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex
> 
> On 02/23/2013 05:16 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just completed the fix for #1093 in r10035
>>
>> Hamish can you please review the script?
>>
>> Alex can you please try it? (heads up: you will have to change the
>> mirror to point to your copy of mini iso)
>>
>> Hope this solves this and we can produce the final full iso too.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Angelos
>>
>> On 02/22/2013 10:39 PM, Hamish wrote:
>>> Cameron wrote:
>>>> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1093
>>> ...
>>>> The current situation is
>>>> that in the full iso, the index.html file in
>>>> the Win/Mac? Downloads directory is not
>>>> being removed as it should.
>>> right, and replaced with symlinks back to the dirs in /cdrom.
>>> besides the new index.html files the dirs need to be removed
>>> as well.
>>>
>>>>     Options to try:
>>>> 1. At the start of the bin/build_full_iso.sh, remove the
>>>> doc/WindowsInstallers/index.rst
>>>> and doc/MacInstallers/index.rst source files.
>>> we tried that, it didn't work. those files are frozen up
>>> inside the squashfs filesystem on the iso.
>>>
>>>> 2. Retrospectively unpack the iso image, remove the index.html
>>>> file, then repack the image.
>>> right, & that's exactly what Angelos is planning on doing.
>>>
>>>
>>> for 7.0 I've modified rc.local to make this choice at boot time,
>>> based on the availablilty of the installers or not. Since the
>>> mini iso is pretty much ready at this point it's too late for
>>> this round so we'll do some open air brain surgery on the full
>>> iso to fix it by hand this time. Not ideal, but we're pretty
>>> familiar with the method by now.
>>>
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Hamish
>>>
>>
>>
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