Ubuntu-karmic and aufs on live-cd.

[Tim Gardner]

Ben Greear wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm trying to follow this page to build a patched version
> of the ubuntu-karmic tree.
> http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2008/10/28/how-to-compile-a-custom-kernel-for-ubuntu-intrepid-using-git/
> 
> Things seem to go OK, but when I try to boot the live CD, I see
> an error in the logs about aufs.  I see aufs configured in 'make menuconfig'
> as a module, but ubuntu/aufs/ doesn't actually seem to be compiled.
> I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 as a base for all of this.  Any ideas on this?
> 
> 
> A second question:
> 
> I notice that I can never do a 'git pull' and have it merge into a previously
> cloned ubuntu-karmic tree cleanly.  Is the tree in too much flux for this
> to work, or am I doing something wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
> 

aufs is specifically disabled on Karmic for the time being.

Assuming you have no local changes, you can update during the 
development phase using:

rm -rf .dotest
git checkout -f
git fetch -f origin
git checkout origin
git branch -f master origin
git checkout master

rtg
-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com