On 28/01/18 12:51, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Alex King <a...@king.net.nz> (2018-01-28):
I wanted to build a net installer that would load stable (actually jessie
but I'll start with stable) but using a recent kernel.
Firstly I went to https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller#Development and
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/CheckOut
I checked out the dev version using Anonymous checkout instructions and was
reading... "If you just want to build bootable images, see
d-i/installer/build/README"
So I was reading that README and realised that I probably wanted to build
from stable not the development version, so I followed the instructions in
there starting with "apt-get source debian-installer", the rest you can see
in my original message.
Now that I see Cyril's message it makes sense to use dpkg-buildpackage. I
don't build debian packages every day so I am not really familiar with all
the normal tools/workflow of a debian developer.
Now I am reading https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Build, which my
browser tells me I read before (maybe a while ago.) I see that has the
advice to use dpkg-buildpackage.
Probably a note about dpkg-buildpackage and/or debian/rules could go in
build/README?
dpkg-buildpackage and debian/rules are the standard interface to
building Debian packages, so there's very little point in mentioning
that specifically.
Also, build/README contains this:
| Recipe:
| - Install the build-dependencies on the host system
| (run dpkg-checkbuilddeps in the parent installer/ directory).
| - Create your own sources.list.udeb.local, otherwise the build host's
| sources.list is taken as a template for sources.list.udeb.
| - Run "make" to get a list of available targets.
| - Build an image using one of the build_ targets (build_netboot,
| all_build, etc). You may want to set the USE_UDEBS_FROM variable,
| documented below.
| - Look in dest/ for the completed images.
and the documentation of USE_UDEBS_FROM points to debian/rules already.
Cheers,
Yes, I was following those instructions.
How about this?
Thanks,
Alex
diff --git a/build/README b/build/README
index 90b73bcc0..76b31f706 100644
--- a/build/README
+++ b/build/README
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ Recipe:
- Run "make" to get a list of available targets.
- Build an image using one of the build_ targets (build_netboot,
all_build, etc). You may want to set the USE_UDEBS_FROM variable,
- documented below.
+ documented below. (Setting USE_UDEBS_FROM is requried for building a
+ released version, e.g. stable or oldstable)
- Look in dest/ for the completed images.
Note that this does not create full debian ISO images; that is left to the
