On 07/28/2011 12:45 PM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Sorry, if you did, I must not have understood what you said. That seems > to be a continuing trend between myself and live-build.
citing from #debian-devel: ---snip--- [...] 2010-11-28 13:20:53 < dba> liw: live-build supports that already now. 2010-11-28 13:20:55 < murb> or something like that. 2010-11-28 13:20:56 < mjt> but it looks like liw has some other problem 2010-11-28 13:20:56 -!- Gilde (Gilde) [~gi...@dslb-092-076-132-018.pools.arcor-ip.net] has joined #debian-devel 2010-11-28 13:21:08 < liw> dba, explain? 2010-11-28 13:21:50 < dba> liw: configure it to not install live-boot/live-config, and build hdd images. 2010-11-28 13:22:09 < liw> dba, how do I do that? 2010-11-28 13:22:21 -!- kart_ [~kartik@122.169.91.146] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 2010-11-28 13:22:29 -!- kart_ (Kartik Mistry) [~kartik@122.170.39.5] has joined #debian-devel 2010-11-28 13:23:40 -!- Amorphous (jan) [j...@f048146145.adsl.alicedsl.de] has joined #debian-devel 2010-11-28 13:23:49 < dba> liw: something like -b virtual-hdd --initramfs none 2010-11-28 13:24:31 < liw> the manpage does not know of "--initramfs none" 2010-11-28 13:24:34 -!- aronxu (Aron Xu) [~aron@64.120.233.241] has joined #debian-devel 2010-11-28 13:25:07 -!- happyaron is now known as Guest765 2010-11-28 13:25:07 -!- aronxu is now known as happyaron 2010-11-28 13:27:30 -!- Guest765 [~aron@119.48.112.242] has quit [Read error: Operation timed out] 2010-11-28 13:28:41 -!- happyaron [~aron@64.120.233.241] has quit [] 2010-11-28 13:30:30 -!- happyaron (Aron Xu) [~aron@119.48.122.188] has joined #debian-devel 2010-11-28 13:35:42 -!- kart__ (Kartik Mistry) [~kartik@122.170.19.102] has joined #debian-devel 2010-11-28 13:38:18 -!- kart_ [~kartik@122.170.39.5] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 2010-11-28 13:50:06 -!- cjuner_ (Christian Juner) [~cju...@frnk-590dbb82.pool.mediaways.net] has joined #debian-devel 2010-11-28 13:50:37 -!- ultrt [~ultrot...@dsl-51-61.dsl.netsource.ie] has quit [Ping timeout: 480 seconds] 2010-11-28 13:56:48 -!- cjuner [~cju...@frnk-590d9d94.pool.mediaways.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 480 seconds] 2010-11-28 13:56:51 < liw> dba, well, --initramfs none did not get rid of live-boot and live-config from the image, I'll see if I can find something else to do that 2010-11-28 14:02:23 < liw> dba, scratch that, I ran the wrong script 2010-11-28 14:05:44 -!- gismo_ (Luca Capello) [~l...@adsl-130-11.dsl.init7.net] has joined #debian-devel 2010-11-28 14:06:11 < liw> dba, however, building with "--initramfs none" fails 2010-11-28 14:07:20 -!- stevecotton (Steve Cotton) [~stevec...@host109-155-61-227.range109-155.btcentralplus.com] has joined #debian-devel 2010-11-28 14:08:11 -!- Mez (Martin Meredith) [~m...@slumber.sourceguru.net] has joined #debian-devel 2010-11-28 14:08:39 < dba> liw: send a bug then, thanks. [...] ---snap--- i appologize for having forgotten to fill the bug (to keep the reminder about it) myself after you've choosen not to (which is not your obligation, so perfectly fine). > IMHO, a tool that is too complicated to use without documentation, > and whose documentation does not help, is not all that useful a > tool for others to use. like i said before, the most used features are well documented, the other, newer ones and not as much tested ones, are not yet. > Complaining about the lack of manpower to document > something very complicated, i was not complaining. if pointing out the mere fact that we could use more manpower (who can't?; and recently, we have got some substancial more manpower, which is nice) is complaining, then of course i'm sorry for that. > after you've made it so complicated, is not > a valid complaint, either. while certainly it can be made simpler/better and that is which is what we have been working on, i don't think it's complicated. at least that is not what the downstream users on debian-live@l.d.o and #debian-devel tell us. > Anyway, it seems like live-build will be a contender for generating > VM images for Debian, and that's good. ...and i'm happy to work on adding whatever features whoever would like to have regarding vm images. please feel encourage to open bug reports so we can track it and loose valuable information. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e31696a.8000...@progress-technologies.net
