Package: live-build Version: 3.0.5-1 Severity: wishlist Currently each live-image is a separate entity and it is difficult, especially for elements like bootloaders and chroot includes, to maintain a set of common elements from which you pick what applies to a given image (e.g. with symlinks) along with it's unique elements.
At present (wheezy) the config portion of the tree doesn't really support using symlinks to common elements in things like bootloaders or includes (for binary hooks can work around this, but for chroot and bootloaders (at least with live-build's live.cfg.in mechanism) this is not possible as symlinks get included in the image as symlinks (at the same this is usually what you want; it's just that there is no mechanism to obtain pull from a parts of a common area on a per-image basis (and while adding a package would achieve this for chroot, creating a package is a lot of work for the payoff). In addition, for the bootloaders creating a package really doesn't help. I don't expect this will be worked on soon, but I make a note in case I or someone else gets the time to do something about it. I can dream at any rate. -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages live-build depends on: ii cdebootstrap 0.5.9 ii debootstrap 1.0.48+deb7u1 Versions of packages live-build recommends: ii cpio 2.11+dfsg-0.1 ii gnu-fdisk 1.2.4-3.1 ii live-boot-doc 3.0.1-1 ii live-config-doc 3.0.23-1 ii live-manual 1:3.0.2-1 ii live-manual-epub [live-manual] 1:3.0.2-1 ii live-manual-html [live-manual] 1:3.0.2-1 ii live-manual-odf [live-manual] 1:3.0.2-1 ii live-manual-pdf [live-manual] 1:3.0.2-1 ii live-manual-txt [live-manual] 1:3.0.2-1 Versions of packages live-build suggests: ii debian-keyring 2013.04.21 ii dosfstools 3.0.13-1 ii fakeroot 1.18.4-2 ii git 1:1.7.10.4-1+wheezy1 ii gpgv 1.4.12-7+deb7u3 ii loadlin 1.6f-1 ii memtest86 4.0s-1 ii memtest86+ 4.20-1.1 ii mtd-utils [mtd-tools] 1:1.5.0-1 ii mtools 4.0.17-1 ii parted 2.3-12 ii squashfs-tools 1:4.2-5 ii sudo 1.8.5p2-1+nmu1 ii syslinux 2:4.05+dfsg-6+deb7u1 ii uuid-runtime 2.20.1-5.3 ii win32-loader 0.7.4.7+deb7u1 pn xorriso <none> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140223224315.1861.43410.reportbug@aileron
