On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 05:52:03PM +0200, Raphaël Hertzog wrote: > Currently the CODENAME given is used both to select the distribution to > download from the mirror and the distribution to create in the local > mirror. Given that debian-cd will only do its job properly if the CODENAME > is a well known one, we are forced to use official debian codenames even > when we are in fact building a derivative distribution. > > It would be nice if simple-cdd could be somewhat more intelligent > in that regard. > > I suggest to check that debian-cd/data/$CODENAME, > debian-cd/tools/$CODENAME and debian-cd/tools/boot/$CODENAME exists and if > not to create them as symlinks pointing to $debian_cd_rules_like_dist (you > can find a better name maybe, it's meant to be a new variable that selects > the Debian distribution whose rules we want to re-use when building the > CD).
if that's really all it would take, it probably wouldn't be too hard to implement in simple-cdd. though i would rather see something like this implemented in debian-cd directly, unless there's a compelling reason not to. live well, vagrant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
