Re: Bootstrapping on KISS GNU/Linux

[Jason Bacon <jtocino%gmx.com@localhost>]

On 10/22/23 10:19, Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:
> Op woensdag 18 oktober 2023 01:14:15 CEST schreef Jason Bacon:
> > On 10/17/23 11:29, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> > > * On 2023-10-17 at 19:04 BST, Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:
> > > > => Generating post-install file lists
> > > > pkg_create: can't stat
> > > > `/root/pkgsrc/bootstrap/work/wrk/pkgtools/cwrappers/
> > > > work/.destdir/opt/pkg-2023Q3/find:
> > > > /root/pkgsrc/bootstrap/work/wrk/pkgtools/
> > > > cwrappers/work/.destdir/opt/pkg-2023Q3/.: No such file or directory'
> > >
> > > This error where you get the output of find(1) in a PLIST mismatch is
> > > usually caused by your distribution not providing some core tool that we
> > > require.
> > >
> > > We definitely need to do better here in terms of improving the error
> > > message, but in the meantime I'd suggest taking a look through the file
> > > mk/tools/tools.Linux.mk to see which ones you might be missing.
> >
> > If you could try auto-pkgsrc-setup (http://netbsd.org/~bacon/), I'd
> > appreciate some feedback.  It tries to flag missing tools, and install
> > them in some cases (e.g. if running as root on RHEL).
>
> I first tried installing all sorts of utilities that were listed in the file
> Jonathan pointed at, but I still got the same error.
>
> I tried your script as well, but it results in the exact same error. At least
> I presume this error would not be related to a missing OpenJDK or Fortran
> compiler.
>
> I had to replace ftp:// with http:// for the tarball download btw. Somehow
> downloading over ftp was very slow and would never reach the end.

Thanks for the heads-up.  I've switched to https: in the latest WIP version.

> At this point I'm not yet sure how to proceed. Would it help if I create a VM
> image to reproduce this? I am not sure exactly if I should be looking at the
> pkg_create sources or this PLIST part is handled elsewhere?

That might be helpful, given how gnarly the KISS installation procedure
is.  I mainly use VirtualBox, so a .ova would be most convenient for me.
 I have also used qemu on occasion.