Sebastian Ley wrote: > on debcamp we had a discussion about how we are ensuring proper > testing versions of debian-installer. The main problem was the build > process of the images. If we had a package in the archive that builds > the installer, which files should it create? > > I propose the following: > > Make a package build-di that just contains the /build dir and unpacks > it into /usr/src. Introduce a build option which tells which > determines if udebs should be fetched from stable, testing or > unstable. Update the testing scripts, so that they can handle udebs. > > Then we will have unstable images and testing images by just > downloading build-di from testing or unstable, setting the above > mentioned build option to the apropriate suite and build the images in > /usr/src. We can do this to provide official images or daily-builds, > and everyone else to make his own, probably customized images.
What's the advantage of a -src package instead of a source package? Aside from that and from agreeing with Gaudenz that this may be a more medium-term solution, I agree that your idea is reasonable. However, this doesn't address autobuilding or getting boot images into the archive. > - Fix the configuration. All user-configurable options should be moved > to build/config. That includes pkg-lists and a mirror selction > option. I think there are plans affoot to make mirror selection happen based on /etc/apt/sources.list, so it is more automatic. -- see shy jo
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