Sebastian Hilbert wrote: > non-standard repositories > openSUSE: all packages in openSUSE buildservice can be included > Debian: a custom sources list for apt needs to be carefully crafted
as someone else already explained, actually creating a repository is very easy. if you don't want to do that, you can just copy your packages into config/chroot_local-packages and be done with it - no need for an extra repository just to have the packages installed. a custom repository is of course more flexible, easier to maintain and allows to select packages out of it. > custom files > Debian: can be manually supplied in target directories, it is kind of hard > for > me to track when changes need to happen ideally, even such files are packaged as a .deb package. if you don't want to do that, you can keep your config_chroot-local-files in a VCS repository, or your complete config/. that should do it, or am i missing/missunderstanding something? > building > Debian: available in multiple formats but kind of hard to produce for me, did > not bother with anything but iso image generation of iso, usb-hdd, or netboot images do all work the absolutely same way - just select what you want with the -b parameter to lh_config. if resources permits it on live.debian.net; live-webhelper (a cgi to live-helper) will be enabled again for the public though. > testing > Debian: needs to be downloaded and fed to some virtualization solution as > virtual or physical CD brandon has a really cool setup with qemu that creates a video of booting the images (check the archives for 'autotesting'). this needs quite some work to be properly package the scripts and bits needed to make it work, which i prefered not to do before lenny release has happened. > sharing > Debian: needs to be hosted by us sadly, we're living in a world where large webspace, and live images including their sources are generally quite large, is not for free. i'm afraid that the ressources available to me are limited and do not allow to host other images as well. especially because there would be so many usefull other images and image combinations, not just gnumed, and i would need to make a decision which few i could host. besides, just hosting live.debian.net costs me personally ~800CHF per year, that i pay myself and which i do since february 2006 and where i'm not generating any revenue from. i'm locking into getting a box sponsored by a Swiss ISP soon though. > One media for 1) live demoing 2) installing of the image to a harddisk 3) > installing the software to the system. 1 and 2 can be combined by including live-installer (LH_DEBIAN_INSTALLER=live resp. --debian-installer live). 3 can be acchieved through config/chroot_local-includes. > I envision something like placing local repositories for Debian , openSUSE, > Windows on the CD. A webpage would detect the OS (just like our download > pages do) and of the installation of the software and its dependencies. that would be nice. as soon as you have it, just put it into config/chroot_local-includes and make sure you also include an autorun.inf for the windows users and you're done. probably you would also need a trivial script to merge the two livecds (opensuse and debian one). Regards, Daniel -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [email protected] Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
