Package: debian-cd Version: 3.0.4 Severity: wishlist --- Please enter the report below this line. --- Howdy !
I fail in including OpenVZ prebuilt kernels and tools from http://debian.systs.org/, which are mirrored by OpenVZ there : http://download.openvz.org/debian-systs ... as one can realize, the "main" component is empty, and the packages of interest are in a custom-named "openvz" component, which debian-cd fails to manage properly. Reading the scripts that constitute debian-cd, I realized the components allowed to be added were hardcoded : main seems always included, and if activated, only contrib and non-free can be added. be it directly by the use of $CONTRIB and $NONFREE, or through simple-cdd that parses the components specified in the mirrors one give it to, which results in the same towards debian-cd. I understand why non-free packages are managed separately, to be able to put them on a separate media, but contrib or main could be anything else... in particular OpenVZ packages which are free software (it is quite sad Debian doesn't package more than two utils for it : it is by far superior to Vserver, which is already quite nice, and they contribute a lot to free software, most noticeably to the kernel). So, I believe debian-cd should be able to include whatever components we which to. The inclusion of some of them on another media is a cool thing, and it would even be better ifwe could put wathever set of components we want on a separate media (I'm thinking of "local" homemade component, for instance) ; but the behaviour should be more general, not hardcoding anything, and letting the user in charge of the choice to include what he wants. --- System information. --- Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 Debian Release: lenny/sid 500 unstable mirror.home-dn.net 500 unstable ftp.fr.debian.org --- Package information. --- Depends (Version) | Installed =======================================-+-============== apt (>= 0.3.11.1) | 0.7.14+b1 bc | 1.06.94-3 cpp | 4:4.3.1-2 genisoimage | 9:1.1.8-1 grep-dctrl | libcompress-zlib-perl | 2.011-1 libdigest-md5-perl | lynx | 2.8.6-2.1 make | 3.81-5 perl | 5.10.0-11 tofrodos | 1.7.8.debian.1-1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
