[support] Broken sources for Homeguy on site

Romain KUNTZ kuntz at lsiit.u-strasbg.fr
Thu Aug 27 18:10:26 JST 2009


Hi Martin,

You may also take this opportunity tp take into account the few  
comments I sent in a previous mail:
http://ml.nautilus6.org/pipermail/support/2009-March/001331.html

Cheers,
romain

On 2009/08/27, at 7:00, Martin Andre wrote:

> Hi Stuart,
>
> Thanks for the fixes. I'll update the package on the website to  
> include
> your fixes, and will take the opportunity to refresh a bit the content
> of homeguy so it builds on Jaunty (right now, it is tested against  
> gutsy
> which is quite old).
>
> Martin
>
> Stuart Harland wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm not sure exactly where this should goto, however the websites all
>> say that this is the best place to report.
>>
>> I have been building an haiku interface using the files as they are  
>> on
>> the websites, and the homeguy iso.
>>
>> There are two bugs in the iso there.
>>
>> Firstly the image doesn't have a .disk directory. Subsequently when
>> casper executes the script that invokes apt-cdrom -m add, it sits  
>> there
>> silently waiting for someone to enter a "disk name". Of course  
>> because
>> at this point in the boot there is no stdout, noone sees this, and  
>> you
>> just sit there assuming that your live cd is broken (until you
>> accidentally munge the keyboard hitting enter at some point as i  
>> did).
>>
>> Secondly, the file conf-setup/01-mip6.sh is incorrect.
>>
>> Where it is checking to see if [ $CUR_PREF == 1 ], this is a string
>> comparison, which may work in bash, but certainly won't in this  
>> script -
>> subsequently, you get two interface definitions, and none of the
>> template in the resulting config file.
>>
>> This can be corrected by doing a straight substitution  s/==/-eq/
>>
>>
>> I have included the appropriate fix for the .disk function
>> (The info file is just a generic string which is inserted in
>> sources.list, the uuid is generated by uuidgen)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Stuart Harland
>>
>>
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