On Sun, August 30, 2009 04:46, Bake Timmons wrote: > Hi, > > Attached is a patch to Builder[1] that enables me to build a LiveCD > based on a recent snapshot of Ubuntu Jaunty[2]. I installed from the > image onto a qemu hard drive image, booted the qemu image and have > lightly tested it in KVM with no problems so far. Unfortunately, I have > been on 24K dialup for many months now, so I cannot upload a CD image. > If there is any interest in using that newer software or testing to > improve builder, perhaps someone might upload a CD image. > > The patch is against svn revision 281 of Builder.
Have you done 'clean system' tests with it? (eg, removed all your existing pakages and rebuilt from scratch). > *TODO* (trim) > 3. My CD images based on newer and more space-consuming software seem to > be almost 50MB larger than the current official gNewSense CD image -- > too large I believe. What do we cut out of an installation based on > Jaunty, Karmic, etc.? If its <700 it still fits on a cd. > 5. Handle $MAINTINFO values of the form > 'gNewSense hackers <[email protected]>' . While I know a hacky > way to get that to work, for now I just use a simple email address like > '[email protected]' . This should already be handled correctly. Whats wrong? On Sun, August 30, 2009 05:23, Bake Timmons wrote: > Bake Timmons <[email protected]> writes: > >> --=-=-= >> >> Hi, >> >> Attached is a patch to Builder[1] that enables me to build a LiveCD >> based on a recent snapshot of Ubuntu Jaunty[2]. I installed from the >> image onto a qemu hard drive image, booted the qemu image and have >> lightly tested it in KVM with no problems so far. Unfortunately, I have >> been on 24K dialup for many months now, so I cannot upload a CD image. >> If there is any interest in using that newer software or testing to >> improve builder, perhaps someone might upload a CD image. >> >> The patch is against svn revision 281 of Builder. >> > > NOTE: The patch will not work for Jaunty, etc., unless some files are > added to the web server setup that the Builder docs describe. In > particular, you need to have a "linux-libre" directory in your web root > directory that contains the relevant files from the linux-libre > project[1]. E.g., the user should be able to access > > http://localhost/linux-libre/deblob-{2.6.28,check,main} > > Since builder will have to re-run the time-consuming deblob-main several > times, I recommend running deblob-main manually, so as to generate a > bzipped tarball. Then uncompress, recompress with gzip, and install it > so that it can be accessed as: I'm sure you can create a gen-clean-kernel you run once which makes the tarball for you. > http://localhost/linux-libre/linux-2.6.28-libre3.tar.gz > > (Perhaps there are already such compressed tarballs that you can just > download, convert to a .gz, serve up with your web server, and have it > all work out OK.) I'm pretty sure l-l do provide tarballs on their site. > Finally, specify that URL in config.local like this: > > LINUXLIBRE_TARBALL_URL=http://localhost/linux-libre/linux-2.6.28-libre3.tar.gz You should add this to config (with apropriate coment) as well. > Sorry for neglecting to mention these things before--happy hacking! > kk -- http://www.kgoetz.id.au >From Webmail _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
