On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 11:36:52AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > >i haven't tested simple-cdd with debian-installer versions newer than > >20050305 (sarge's current release). i suspect significant changes have > >been implemented post-sarge, so it may no longer be compatible with > >simple-cdd. > IMHO, the problem of simple-cdd is that people ignore that CDD is > intended to be something *inside* Debian (and I admit the name Custom > Debian Distributions is missleading).
ok, so it maybe should be named simple-ddd, as it's really a tool outside of debian, and therefore mainly for debian derived distributions. what it can and has been used to create, however, is a derived distribution comprised entirely of plain debian packages with customizations within the scope of debconf pre-seeding. so, it is a tool outside debian that can be used to create a "pure" CDD. unfortunately, i don't have the time or energy to keep it up to date and working with a moving target such as etch. it works quite nicely with the tools available in sarge, so i'm glad for that- i don't know of other tools within sarge that can so easily create something similar. > If the advise from > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-custom/2005/07/msg00033.html > > ... > to download simple-cdd, stick in /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb http://debian-np.alioth.debian.org/debian unstable main > > (also added a "backport" of debpartial-mirror for sarge) > > and: apt-get install simple-cdd > > could be replaced by just > > apt-get install simple-cdd > > dependency problems could be expressed correctly and the BTS could be > used to report this kind of problems. yes, that would be nice. if others wanted to make simple-cdd a package within debian, and working with debian etch, i would be thrilled. i would do what i could to help that. probably getting simple-cdd moved from the debian-np svn repository into the cdd svn repository would be a good start. though it might be better to focus on improving debian-cd, debian-installer, and other tools already within debian, and getting cddtk, into debian, which could make simple-cdd unneccesary. > >perhaps you can share those errors, otherwise we wouldn't be able to > >help you :P > > Who is "we"? well, since (several) other people have recommended simple-cdd as a tool to create a debian-based customized distributions on this list, it seems that there are people on this list somewhat familiar with simple-cdd, and thus able to provide assistance with getting it working. so the "we" is anyone familiar with simple-cdd on this list. live well, vagrant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
