[Revisor-users] revisor

[Jeroen van Meeuwen (Fedora Unity)]

Farkas Levente wrote:
> Jeroen van Meeuwen (Fedora Unity) wrote:
>> Well, first of all we call a number of programs that require root
>> privileges to be run in the first place. Second, some programs do
>> loopback device setups, create hard drive images, make filesystems on
>> those, mount those, run yum, install packages, probe modules and create
>> initial ram disks.
> 
> ok, to be clar.
> i'd not like to criticize you or revisor it's just would be better in
> can be run as a normal user as a normal user can write a cd (even if
> that's require filesystem create, mount, loop etc). imho revisor would
> be better in that way.
> 
> anyway i'm still got error with revisor-2.0.3.12-1.fc7:
> ----------------------------------
> The directories Revisor uses in /var/tmp/ already exist. This could
> possibly hold data from a previous run. Please remove or move them to a
> safe location. Then press OK. If you do not move or remove the files,
> Revisor will simply delete them
> The directories Revisor uses in /srv/revisor/ already exist. This could
> possibly hold data from a previous run. Please remove or move them to a
> safe location. Then press OK. If you do not move or remove the files,
> Revisor will simply delete them
> No Package Matching  jfsutils. This is a required package.
> ERROR:revisor:No Package Matching  jfsutils. This is a required package.
> Did not succeed in adding in all required packages
> ERROR:revisor:Did not succeed in adding in all required packages
> ----------------------------------
> so jfsutils should have to be add into the revisor spec file
> dependencies. BUT the most interesting problem is that if i install
> jfsutils by hand even in that case i've got the same error message!
> after a while it's turn out that the result is iso required the jfsutils
> (so i add centosplus repo too) but it's strange since exactly the same
> kickstart file running from pxe boot and it doesn't contains centosplus
> repo and don't required the same package and install without error(?).
> so jfsutils is needed for revisor?
> yours.
> 

Farkas,

This means jfsutils is not in the repositories you specified in the
Revisor configuration file you're using. In addition, Revisor -as I said
before- has not been developed for use with CentOS. jfsutils is not a
requirement in case you're using CentOS because it's disabled in
anaconda anyway and the package is not in it's repositories, but for
Fedora, jfsutils is required (or anaconda might shit itself because JFS
is enabled, so if the user selects it, it has no utils). It just so
happens to be that Revisor has been developed for use with Fedora.

Enterprise Linux is one of the things we want to support, but have not
been looking into yet.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen