Hello, 2010/5/17 tangke <[email protected]>: > We've written a small installer, which will extract a base system > archive, and then install additional debs in a chroot environment.
Out of curiosity, who is we? Is it posible to have a look to such installer code? Have you tried multistrap? [1] > How to avoid stoping/starting a service while installing a service > package? How does debian installer take care of it? I do believe running post install scripts is mandatory nowadays in order to have a well configured Debian rootfs. While doing (first stage) cross debootstrap [2] of a Debian rootfs it is not posible to run those scripts (iirc, start-stop-daemon gets renamed to start-stop-daemon.REAL and the former it is just a dummy script which prints some text), then on the target device you need to run post install scripts via second-stage. While debian-installer relais on debootstrap I am unsure which way they use, but they also use udeb. Being able to have a configured rootfs without running post install scripts is under investigation via Baked [3], but it is not upgradeable. You probably can see how useful are post install scripts in upgrades while useless for trully embedded systems. [1] http://wiki.debian.org/Multistrap [2] http://wiki.debian.org/EmDebian/CrossDebootstrap [3] http://www.emdebian.org/baked/ Cheers, -- Héctor Orón "Our Sun unleashes tremendous flares expelling hot gas into the Solar System, which one day will disconnect us." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
