Removal of user mount hack / root requirement for building debianinstaller

[Thomas Viehmann]

Hi.

In
<http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2003/debian-boot-200306/msg00359.html>
I suggested a patch to make use of syslinux's new capability to write to
unmounted images in order to be able to build as normal user.
A oneliner to allow older sed versions to be used (seperate module names by " "
instead of "\n") was also included.
I've attached an updated patch.
Is this entirely unattractive or just not a priority right now?
If the latter is the case, which would be the most appropriate package to file
wishlist bugs against?

Cheers

T.

--- linux-i386.orig     Sun Jul 13 10:44:02 2003
+++ linux-i386  Sun Jul 13 10:44:02 2003
@@ -8,31 +8,12 @@
        dd if=/dev/zero [EMAIL PROTECTED] bs=1k count=$(FLOPPY_SIZE)
        mkfs.msdos -i deb00001 -n 'Debian Installer' -C [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
$(FLOPPY_SIZE)
 
-ifdef USER_MOUNT_HACK
-       ln -sf `pwd`/[EMAIL PROTECTED] $(USER_MOUNT_HACK)
-       mount $(TMP_MNT)
-else
-       mount -t vfat -o loop [EMAIL PROTECTED] $(TMP_MNT)
-endif
-
-       # syslinux is used to make the floppy bootable.
-       if $(foreach NAME,$(KERNELNAME), \
-             cp -f $(TEMP)/$(NAME) $(TMP_MNT)/linux) \
-          && cp $(INITRD) $(TMP_MNT)/initrd.gz \
-          && cp boot/i386/syslinux.cfg $(TMP_MNT)/ \
-          && todos $(TMP_MNT)/syslinux.cfg ; \
-       then \
-               umount $(TMP_MNT) ; \
-               true ; \
-       else \
-               umount $(TMP_MNT) ; \
-               false ; \
-       fi
-
-ifdef USER_MOUNT_HACK
-       syslinux $(SYSLINUX_OPTS) $(USER_MOUNT_HACK)
-       rm -f $(USER_MOUNT_HACK)
-else
+       # syslinux is used to make the floppy bootable
+       $(foreach NAME,$(KERNELNAME), \
+             mcopy [EMAIL PROTECTED] $(TEMP)/$(NAME) ::\linux \
+          && mcopy [EMAIL PROTECTED] $(INITRD) ::\initrd.gz \
+          && todos < boot/i386/syslinux.cfg |  \
+               mcopy [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ::\syslinux.cfg)
        syslinux $(SYSLINUX_OPTS) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 endif
 

--- build/Makefile~     Sat Jun 14 17:18:20 2003
+++ build/Makefile      Sat Jun 14 17:20:46 2003
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
                        pkg-lists/base \
                        pkg-lists/$(TYPE)/common \
                        `if [ -f pkg-lists/$(TYPE)/$(DEB_HOST_ARCH) ]; then echo 
pkg-lists/$(TYPE)/$(DEB_HOST_ARCH); fi` \
-               | sed -e 's/^\(.*\)$${kernel:Version}\(.*\)$$/$(foreach 
VERSION,$(KERNELIMAGEVERSION),\1$(VERSION)\2\n)/g' \
+               | sed -e 's/^\(.*\)$${kernel:Version}\(.*\)$$/$(foreach 
VERSION,$(KERNELIMAGEVERSION),\1$(VERSION)\2 )/g' \
        ) $(EXTRAS)
 # Scratch directory.
 BASE_TMP=./tmp/

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