Hi Aitor, Frits I have a live-build environment setup on devuan alpha 2.
It's pretty much the same as the one I use for my debian builds. I can't find a Devuan repo that works though. So until they are setup properly I'm wasting my time. Cheers Ozi On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 2:54 AM, aitor_czr <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Frits, > > I will do some clarifications about debian-installer: > > 1.- A wrong name of the distribution in .disks/info may screws up in a > failure of the installer at the time of mounting /proc in the target. But > this is not the case. > > 2.- Although being OK all the Packages.gz, i.e. the indices in /dists/ > folder of deb and udeb packages located in /pool/ folder, all the udeb > packages are also included implicitly in the /install/initrd.gz and > /install/gtk/initrd.gz ram-disk files -they are generated when building > debian-installer-, and all the md5sums must be the same in both one and > the other. > > 3.- As i said in another thread, there is a bug in live-installer.udeb > package. This bug was hacked by Philip Newboroug -Corenominal-, but i think > this is not neither the case. Here you are the changes, lines 63-83 of > debian/live-installer.postinst: > > > https://gitlab.com/aitor_czr/live-installer/blob/master/debian/live-installer.postinst > > I have to say that i don't use live-build for building debian-installer. I > build d-i manually because i use the kernel of the Free Software Fundation, > so i have to change all the kernel modules in it. Building d-i manually > gives me more flexibility. > > I hope this will help you somewhat... > > Finally, can you upload your configuration of live-build to some cloud? > Actually > i can't help you because debmirror is failing. I supose that Nextime is > generating the Packages.gz and the Contents.gz of the repository with > Amprolla. Therefore let us be patience. > > Cheers, > > Aitor. > > On 14/10/15 14:00, Godefridus Daalmans <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > a short update: Now I added the debian-installer component to my > experimental live DVD, and I can try to do an installation, but it > screws up in "installing the base system" > > INFO: Menu item 'bootstrap-base' selected > base-installer: error: exiting on error > base-installer/debootstrap-failed > WARNING **: Configuring 'bootstrap-base' failed with error code 1 > WARNING **: Menu item 'bootstrap-base' failed. > > on the installation screen, it complained about the checksum of > debian-installer/Packages.gz and debian-installer/Packages > > This seems to be a recurring error over the years with Debian and > Ubuntu... > > I verified the MD5 checksums and they are all OK, so that's not the **real** > problem. > > Any hints?? > > Frits > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > >
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