Great ! Thanks a lot for the details :) I think at least the creation of the repo can be simplier, but it seems already quite good.
Regards, Julien Lavergne On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:24:25 +0200 Leszek Lesner <leszek.les...@web.de> wrote: > Am 18.10.2010 15:25, schrieb Julien Lavergne: > > On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:59:06 +0200 > > Leszek Lesner <leszek.les...@web.de> wrote: > > > > > >> I created a Install CD by simply creating a minimal install CD plus a > >> repo. Unfortunetly the Installation fails after installing the base > >> system, because it tries to install a package called lubuntu-desktop^ in > >> the tasksel process which it cant find. I tried this with the modified > >> tasksel version of yours. I even checked the modification you made but > >> cant find the error. > >> > > I'm not sure I made the correct fix for tasksel, it probably needs another > > fix somewhere. But I interesting to know how you made the initial CD, > > because I only find how doing an iso with squash filesystem, but not with > > .deb packages. > > > Ok I see it wasn't quite the right fixes you made as the last line in > lubuntu-desktop from the ubuntu-tasks folder contains > > Packages: task-fields > This would as far as I understand connect to the ubuntu server and > search for a corresponding task. But there isn't one. > > Packages: list > > lubuntu-desktop > works much better and fixes the error I got before. > > To create the CD I basically took the xubuntu alternate cd. Then I > copied over the whole ISO and put it into one directory(lets call it > cd-img). Replaced the isolinux folder with the fancy isolinux folder > from the livecd with the cool looking logo png and where you can set > language with F2 and with F3 the keymap and so on. > The first thing that I did afterwards was taking the xubuntu.preseed > file that ships with the xubuntu-10.10-alternate-i386.iso and changing > it basically from xubuntu-desktop to lubuntu-desktop(I know there is a > lubuntu.seed file on the live cd but I took the one from the other > alternate cds as they were more entries and I didn't want to mess ups > things). Then I put this preseed file back to my copy of the minimal > install cd(so the cd-img folder) into the preseed folder. > I did change the txt.cfg file in isolinux so that the default option > would boot with the preseed file option of the lubuntu.seed . > Then the little bit more tricky part create a repository. For creating > this repository I know that I need every package that needs to be > installed when installing lubuntu-desktop. Every means every , so also > xorg and those other stuffs. As I had a Minimal Install ISO aswell I > simply created a minimal installed cli only system in virtualbox and > apt-get install(ed) lubuntu-desktop. All the required deb files are > stored in /var/cache/apt/. The only thing to do now is getting those deb > files outside the virtual machine. Then there is a cool package called > apt-move which is pretty handy as it can automatically copy or move > those deb files in a repository like hierarchical folder view. So it > will create automatically the structure of a repository that you need, > by putting in lubuntu-desktop for example in a > pool/l/lubuntu-meta/lubuntu-desktop_xXX-i386.deb file/folder structure. > By default this repository structure will be put into /mirrors/debian so > you need root right to run apt-move. But I guess the default folder is > changeable I just was to lazy to read the manpage ;) > Then we copy over the pool directory to the cd-img folder. Again me as > being lazy I didn't overwrite all the packages that where already in the > xubuntu pool directory (they can be deleted later I guess or you can > delete the whole pool directory with the exception of the udeb files. So > 'find . -name "*.udeb"' and copy over all udeb files as they are > necessary for the installer). Then we have the pool directory almost > ready. I had to repackage the ubuntu-keyring package as I don't have the > private key to sign the cd and the new repository with official ubuntu > keyring. So I downloaded the keyring and added my own private key to it. > This step is really important because otherwise the installer won't > install if the repo isn't signed. So I repackaged this package and put > it into the pool structure unter u/ubuntu-keyring I think it was. > That should be all for the pool directory. Basically we need the Release > and Packages.gz file for the repository now and sign it. > So I created a release.conf file ( storing the basic info like distro > name , codename and main + universe repos) and a config file you can see > here to get an Idea how it works: > http://pastebin.ca/1965874 > This is basically the file that will scan the pool files and create the > Packages.gz for each repo (means main and universe). > As you can see here you need also some override files that you can get > from here: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/indices > As the above config file will only create a package listing for debs I > created also a config which scans all the udebs. > Here is the config: http://pastebin.ca/1965876 > As you can see I basically only replaced the deb with udeb :) > Now we have all the config files lets build the packages and release > files with: > > apt-ftparchive -c /path/to/release.conf generate > > ../apt-ftparchive/apt-ftparchive-deb.conf > > apt-ftparchive -c /path/to/release.conf generate > > ../apt-ftparchive/apt-ftparchive-udeb.conf > > apt-ftparchive -c /path/to/release.conf release > > path/to/cd-img/dists/maverick > path/to/cd-img/dists/maverick/Release > > gpg --default-key "YOURKEYID" --output > > path/to/cd-img/dists/maverick/Release.gpg -ba > > path/to/dists/maverick/Release #This will sign the Releasefile > > > Then you can simply update the md5sums.txt : > > find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum > md5sum.txt > > And this is basically all. Of course you can edit .info directory and > the files in there to change them so that the CD Label will change to > Lubuntu .... rather then Xubuntu. Rebuild the ISO with mkisofs and you > have it ready the Lubuntu Alternate Install CD :) > I can also upload my version of the image somewhere so you don't need to > do everything by hand ;) > > Hope that answers you questions. I also didn't found a documentation > which explains or does this building of the alternate cd easier. > > Regards, > Leszek -- Julien Lavergne <gi...@ubuntu.com> _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
