On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 12:25:07AM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: >On Thu, 01 Oct 2009, you wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 10:28:26PM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: >> >I can't get my head round Local Hook Definitions in debian-cd's >> > CONF.sh, in particular RESERVED_BLOCKS_HOOK. If someone would give >> > me a working example I would be grateful. >> >> Hi Phil! >> >> It seems you're the first person to ask about the hooks since I added >> them in debian-cd nearly three years ago. For that hook, you need to >> print the number of 2K blocks that you want to reserve on a given CD >> so that debian-cd will leave the space for you when it is calculating >> what will fit. I *believe* it works, but I don't still have the stuff >> I tested with back then. >> >> What are you trying to do? I might be able to help... >> >Greetings Steve, > >I have been reinfected with the Hurd bug and it is itching.
:-) >Confession. Up to now I have been hacking scripts to do Hurdish things >with debian-cd, but now I have reformed and wish to use the hooks. OK, cool. >1. I want to reserve space on the first image for the the >boot/installation system. boot-floppies (shudder). RESERVE_BLOCKS_HOOK Right, OK. That should be easy enough. You can calculate how much space they'll take. >2. To remove packages from the first image which are included in the >installation tarball (the sexy name is baseGNU.tgz) DISC_FINISH_HOOK Ah, now that's a little more thorny. I'd think the easiest way would be to extend debian-cd a little and add support for another hook to list packages that are (essentially) already installed in the image by other means. Then make_disc_trees.pl and friends will simply not include those packages when working through the list they need. Dependencies will be satisfied, etc. Does that sound like a sane way to go for you? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are forecast." Matthew Garrett, http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/30675.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
