Re: Rebuilding Red Hat Linux 9 -- SOLVED

["Taylor, ForrestX" <forrestx taylor intel com>]

Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
> Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
>
> > I am trying to rebuild the RHL 9 discs, but when I run buildinstall, I
> > keep getting these errors:
> >
> > gunzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
> >
> > I've seen these before while building the boot.img files, but I even get
> > the error while building hdstg.img.
>
>
>
> No replies...has anyone tried this?

I finally figured out that mk-images was trying to unzip *.o.gz files, 
which didn't exist.  Attached is a patch to anaconda that alleviates the 
problem.

> Also, I cannot find the comps tarball for RHL9, and rhlinux.redhat.com
> seems to be down.   Has anyone seen it?

It appears that rhlinux is having hardware problems.  The comps file can 
temporarily be found here:
http://people.redhat.com/katzj/comps-9.tar.gz

Forrest
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diff -urN anaconda-9.0.orig/scripts/mk-images anaconda-9.0/scripts/mk-images
--- anaconda-9.0.orig/scripts/mk-images	2003-01-22 13:02:55.000000000 -0800
+++ anaconda-9.0/scripts/mk-images	2003-04-21 14:09:07.000000000 -0700
@@ -278,7 +278,13 @@
 
     pushd $MMB_DIR/modules > /dev/null
 
+    unset FIND
+    FIND=`find . -name '*.o.gz'`
+    if [ ! -z "$FIND" ];then
     find . -name '*.o.gz' |xargs gunzip
+    else
+      echo "No *.o.gz files"
+    fi
 
     $MODLIST --modinfo-file $MODINFO --ignore-missing --modinfo \
 	$MMB_MODULESET > ../$MMB_MODINFO
@@ -833,7 +839,13 @@
 	PCMCIAMODULES=$((perl -e 'while (<>) { s/^.*class.*(network|scsi|ide).*module +"// || next; s/[" ]//g; s/,/\n/g; print }' $KERNELROOT/etc/pcmcia/config | sed 's/\.o//g') | sort -u)
     fi
 
+    unset FIND
+    FIND=`find $KERNELROOT/lib/modules/$version -name "*.o.gz"`
+    if [ ! -z "$FIND" ];then
     find $KERNELROOT/lib/modules/$version -name "*.o.gz" |xargs gunzip
+    else
+	echo "No *.o.gz files"
+    fi
     allmods=$(find $KERNELROOT/lib/modules/$version -name *.o)
 
     rundepmod "$allmods" $MODDEPS