On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 06:45:59PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Hi > > Sorry to bug people here in the n-th time, but I still fail to build a > custom Debian CD in a decent automated manner and I try to figure out > what I'm missing. > > What I did: > > There is an ellusive script called "simple-cdd". It doesn't seem to be > part of any Debian package. I'm not sure what version seems to be the > most recent and tested. Feature-wise it seems just what I need. The sole > problem is that it doesn't work. > > Simple-cdd is basically a wrapper around Debian's debian-cd. Originally > it had a problem supporting a local packages source in a decent manner > just as debian-cd has poor support for this. So originally I setteled > for some ugly scripts that basically modify the netinst ISO image. > Those scripts sort of work, but are not well automated. > > > A workaround for the loal packages is to create a local mirror that will > contain exactly what I need. There seem to be two recent candidates for > such a merging mirror: > > * reprepro: works rather nice. I find it very useful for my main apt > source. I still evaluate it for the merging mirror. Problems I have > encountered: > - Does not mirror anything outside pool and dists . Current > workaround: scriptary to mirror the rest through a manual list using > rsync. Sort-of works. > - Requires an explicit packages list from each source of the > repository. Current workaround: an apt wrapper that resolves > dependencies. Only works when there are no conflicts in the packages > lists. Such conflicts are, e.g: asterisk-classic and > asterisk-bristuff. Resolving each package separately is not good > enough as sometimes I wish to avoid certain packages by providing a > certain dependency explicitly. > In short: I'm stuck here. > * deppartial-mirror: I still haven't figured out how to configure it. No > working sample. Looks very nice, though. > > The original debian-cd, naturally, unusable, as it doesn't easily > support working as non-root and working in an arbitrary working dir. > I have started to work on a wrapper of my own for it. > > My debian-cd wrapper begins by generating a symlinks tree in debian-cd/ > under the current working dir to /usr/share/debian-cd . I use there the > above-mentioned reprepro wrapper to generate a local mirror. Unlike the > scripts in the cddt repository, I don't hardwire the name of the apt > sources. Rather, I parse them from the conf/updates file at the price of > an ugly warning at resolve time. > > What I currently get is an install CD that begins an installation but > fails at running debootstrap (If I understand the error correctly).
That seems to be solved by now. So I'll just post my current build scripts: http://lemon.tzafrir.org.il/~tzafrir/rapid_build.tgz wget http://lemon.tzafrir.org.il/~tzafrir/rapid_build.tgz cd rapid_build #edit the "Method" of the source "xorcom" *And* its Label: vi repo/conf/updates tools/gen-cd I don't intend for this to be a replacement for debpartial-cd . I just hope that this could serve as a working saple for using debian-cd as non-root with a local repository. -- Tzafrir Cohen sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] icq#16849755 iax:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +972-50-7952406 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xorcom.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
