CTKArch

The command

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#  mkarchiso -p "$(cat packages.list)" create traitement
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error: target not found: repacman

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needs the package 'repacman' which isn't on archlinux.fr anymore.

Question: can repacman be omitted from packages.list?

Just remove it, yes.

I am stuck. I work from a fresh chroot-environment which I got directly from unsquashing ROOT_IMAGE.SQFS of the ctkarchlive-0.7-i686.iso image.
In this "natural" chroot environment I did proceed exactly as described in the README of 0.7-src, up to the command:

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[root@ctkarch ctkarch-0.7-src]# mkarchiso -p "archlinuxfr/libfm" create traitement

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which fails (also after removing "repacman" from "packages.list").
Because I don't understand mkarchiso I don't know how to get the new stumbling blocks out of the way.

These are (from packages.list):

1) "archlinuxfr/libfm"
For isolating the problem I tried

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[root@ctkarch ctkarch-0.7-src]# mkarchiso -p "archlinuxfr/libfm" create traitement
mkarchiso : Configuration Settings
        working directory:  traitement
              image name:  none
====> Creating working directory: traitement
====> Installing packages to 'traitement/root-image/'
error: target not found: libfm

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2) "archlinuxfr/fbpanel"
Testing the above command with the 1-element-list of "archlinuxfr/fbpanel" results in an analogous error.

For further analysis I tried

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[root@ctkarch ctkarch-0.7-src]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core                            37.4K  58.7K/s 00:00:01 [##############################] 100%
extra                          470.7K  142.3K/s 00:00:03 [##############################] 100%
community                      437.4K  149.4K/s 00:00:03 [##############################] 100%
archlinuxfr                    28.1K  223.4K/s 00:00:00 [##############################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: fbpanel: local (6.1.507svn-2) is newer than community (6.1-2)
warning: libfm: local (0.1.14-5) is newer than extra (0.1.14-4)
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "yajl>=2.0", a dependency of "package-query"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      package-query

Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] ^C
Interrupt signal received

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From this I conclude that the special versions of "archlinuxfr/libfm" and "archlinuxfr/fbpanel" are essential.
But how to correct these failures?

You could also have prepared your chroot using mkarchroot or the script /install/install-chroot.sh that I wrote, provided in the livecd.

The problem there is that the default mirror for the official repositories is frozen, but not the mirror for the archlinuxfr repository.

Just comment out the arm.konnichi line from /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.
It's better to generate an up-to-date livecd anyway, isn't it?

Quote: Calimero at May 03, 2011 8:43:17 pm

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You could also have prepared your chroot using mkarchroot or the script /install/install-chroot.sh that I wrote, provided in the livecd.
The problem there is that the default mirror for the official repositories is frozen, but not the mirror for the archlinuxfr repository.

Just comment out the arm.konnichi line from /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.
It's better to generate an up-to-date livecd anyway, isn't it?

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Working from my HDD-installation of CTKarch-0.7 (kernel 2.6.37-ARCH) I tried now to create an ISO-image with an outcommented server-line for http://arm.konnichi.com in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.
By this a new problem now arises because in the chroot-environment a newer kernel-version is installed than is used. The installed kernel-modules are under /lib/modules/2.6.38-ARCH. ... not under /lib/modules/2.6.37-ARCH/ as required by both of the commands:

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[root@ctkarch ctkarch-0.7-src]# mkinitcpio -c "$(pwd)"/mkinitcpio.conf -b "traitement/root-image" -k `uname -r` -g "traitement/iso/boot/archiso.img"
:: Begin build
:: Parsing hook [base]
:: Parsing hook [udev]
:: Parsing hook [archiso]
find: `traitement/root-image/lib/modules/2.6.37-ARCH': No such file or directory
ERROR: module 'cdrom' not found
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N.B. replacing '`uname -r`' by '2.6.38-ARCH' doesn't help.

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[root@ctkarch ctkarch-0.7-src]# mkarchiso -D "" -L CTKArch7a -P "http://ctkarch.org/" -A "CTKArch Live" -v  iso traitement ctkarchlive-0.7a-`arch|sed s/86_//`.iso
mkarchiso : Configuration Settings
        working directory:  traitement
              image name:  ctkarchlive-0.7a-i686.iso
====> Generating SquashFS image for 'traitement/root-image'
Creating SquashFS image. This may take some time...
Cannot stat sortlist entry "1302"
This is probably because you're using the wrong file
path relative to the source directories
Cannot stat sortlist entry "lib/modules/2.6.37-ARCH/modules.dep.bin"
This is probably because you're using the wrong file
path relative to the source directories
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I guess that the (wrong) path to the kernel-modules which is actually used in both of the above commands is derived from the running kernel which is 2.6.37-ARCH.

What, it doesn't help? It does! Can't you see that it works? (apart from a few warnings due to name changes)

Just change all occurences of 2.6.37 to 2.6.38 in priorities.list of course, so that the files are ordered correctly. (to speed up the boot when using a CD)
But even without doing anything else, it works, there.