RE: bug in splitdistro

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 15:36, Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
> > On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 10:04, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > > >>>>> "r" == rpjday  <rpjday mindspring com> writes:
> > > 
> > > r> there is a documented bug in splitdistro, bugzilla number 56428.
> > > r> check it out.
> > > 
> > > That bug is marked NEEDINFO and will probably get marked WORKSFORME
> > > unless folks tack on some additional info, so if you're seeing those
> > > problems with splitdistro then be sure and add your experiences to
> > > bugzilla 
> > (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56428).
> > 
> > Blah, this is because the preview directory as added at a 
> > later point in
> > our process (because it was added late and we wanted to minimize QA
> > impact).
> > 
> > Simple solution, pull the preview dir out and move it onto the second
> > source and binary CDs after splitdistro runs.
>
> Thanks, Jeremy.  I did move it to disc2 manually, but what do I need to do
> to splitdistro to get it to move it automatically (besides learning python
> ;o)

You can add some os.rename calls in there... if you want something
simple and really are making cds, just write a wrapper shell script that
moves the preview/ directory out of the tree, then runs splitdistro,
moves the preview/ directory back to where it needs to be, and then
makes ISO images.

Cheers,

Jeremy