Bug 12210

Summary:	bcd should run basic checks on the tree before actually calling genisoimage...
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Anne Nicolas <ennael1>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	bittwister2, lewyssmith, mageia, rverschelde
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	bcd	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Thierry Vignaud 2014-01-05 19:24:32 CET

bcd should run basic checks on the tree before actually calling genisoimage...
This would catch basic errors before the ISOs get d/l & tested by users.
See bug #12140

Suggested tests would be:
- is there a synthesis for all media
  (core/nonfree/tainted + 32 bits one on x86_64)

- is the tree installable:
  ROOT=/tmp/root-$$
  urpmi.addmedia --distrib file:/where/the/tree/is --urpmi-root $ROOT
  urpmi --urpmi-root $ROOT --justdb --auto --tune-rpm=all
  #check it runs fine:
  #- bash: $?
  #- perl: system("...") ==0 or die "system is uninstallable!"
  #check that basesystem did got installed:
  rpm -q --root=$ROOT basesystem

- the same test with task-gnome-minimal, task-kde4-minimal, ...

- whatever came when remembering previous failed isos ...

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Anne Nicolas 2014-01-05 19:50:36 CET

feel free to do it

Comment 2 Bit Twister 2014-01-06 03:03:15 CET

(In reply to Thierry Vignaud from comment #0)
> bcd should run basic checks on the tree before actually calling
> genisoimage...
> This would catch basic errors before the ISOs get d/l & tested by users.

and if bcd does not do it, use "stat --format=%s whatever.iso" to verify iso will fit on the target media, cd, dvd and 4 gig memory device....

CC: (none) => junknospam

Rémi Verschelde 2014-03-24 20:37:07 CET

CC: (none) => remi
Component: New RPM package request => RPM Packages

Comment 3 Lewis Smith 2019-04-04 20:28:43 CEST

This bug is terribly old. Is it still relevant? I think not: ISO size limits are pre-defined for different media.

CC: (none) => lewyssmith

Comment 4 Martin Whitaker 2019-04-05 09:57:56 CEST

bcd is no longer used for generating the ISOs.

CC: (none) => mageia
Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD