(CC to list....as this drive a general interest topic) Quoting Erich Waelde ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi Christian, > > > This is a great report, Erich, danke sehr. I'm sure it will be very > > useful to the german translators. > > You are welcome! I'm glad to contribute to the whole process at least a > little bit --- I have not really succeeded to build installation images > from cvs *and* *use* them. I need to sort this soon.
Not easy..:) Basically you need to build all d-i packages. You also need one of already built ISO images from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/. It will be sued as an archive copy. D-i packages which go in the initrd (see pkg-lists/base, pkg-lists/cdrom/common and pkg-lists/cdrom/<arch>) should be dropped in "build/localudebs" Then loopmount the ISO image and COPY it somewhere else. Then drop all other packages (those NOT mentioned in the above files) to pool/main in this copy. Create a "config" file with something like this : Dir { ArchiveDir "/home/bubulle/src/debian/d-i/archive"; OverrideDir "indices"; CacheDir "indices"; }; TreeDefault { Directory "pool/"; }; BinDirectory "pool/main" { Packages "dists/sarge/main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages"; BinOverride "override"; ExtraOverride "override.extra"; }; Default { Packages { Extensions ".udeb"; }; }; then go the this directory and run "apt-ftparchive generate config" And finally, from the build directory: (adapt it to your local paths) #!/bin/sh make clean TYPE=cdrom fakeroot make image cp myudebs/*udeb /home/vmware/bubulle/src/debian/d-i/archive/pool/main MYPWD=`pwd` cd /home/vmware/bubulle/src/debian/d-i/archive apt-ftparchive generate config cd $MYPWD mkisofs -r -J -b cdrom-image.img -o test.iso dest /home/vmware/bubulle/src/debian/d-i/archive #mkisofs -r -J -b cdrom-image.img -o test.iso dest /mnt/loop A bit clumsy but this works, at least for me. This is how I tested the modified partitioner (which does not go to initrd as it requires fdisk-udeb which is huge) For smaller package tests, you may modify pkg-lists/cdrom/<arch>, add them there and drop the udebs to localudebs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
