On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Marco Amadori <amado...@vdavda.com> wrote:
> > It seems to be there in both debian-old and debian-next branch of live-boot > git repository. > > Maybe you use somthing like konqueror for reading manpages? Try with plan > "man". > I'm using "man live-snapshot" from a shell prompt and in the FILES section of the man page I see documentation for: /etc/live.conf live/filesystem.module /etc/live-persistence.binds /etc/live-snapshot.list If I read "man live-boot", in the "FILES (old)" section I see: /etc/live.conf live/filesystem.module /etc/live-persistence.binds and then in "FILES" /etc/live/boot.conf /etc/live/boot.d/ live/boot.conf live/boot.d/ but for the "FILES" section, there is no documentation text to go with any of these files. I believe you when you say that you see documentation for /etc/live-snapshot.exclude_list in debian-old and debian-next branches of live-boot. Maybe the debian-sq-live-rc1-i386-gnome-desktop.iso build occurred off of an unexpected branch/revision? Is there a way that I could view online a version of the live-boot man pages from debian-old or debian-next? I'm not familiar with git. > There are examples for both live-persistence.binds > > and live-snapshot.exclude_list in /usr/share/doc/live-boot/examples so > I'm > > guessing that there is an intent for both of these files to be supported > by > > live-boot/live-snapshot. However, I am having problems with > > using live-persistence.binds, so I've tried the > > now-undocumented live-snapshot.exclude_list as well. > > > > /etc/live-snapshot.list seems to work ok in that I can limit the snapshot > > to contain just "/etc/live-snapshot.list" and "/home". > > > > What I'd like to do now is exclude things like "/home/user/.mozilla". > > > > If I have just /home/user/.mozilla in /etc/live-persistence.binds, > .mozilla > > still ends up in live-sn.cpio.gz and I don't see the tmpfs described on > the > > man page. > > persistence.binds regard snapshot run time, exclude_list is about snapshot > build time. So it is correct that you get this behaviour. > I will accept your comment that this is expected behavior, but I still don't understand what the usage model is for persistence.binds. I will stick with using exclude_list. > I tried to make a snapshot with the default "/live/cow", but exclude a few > > things (/var/log) using > live-persistence.binds/live-snapshot.exclude_list. > > However, in this case I end up with an empty live-sn.cpio.gz. Is > > live-snapshot.list required in order to > > use live-persistence.binds/live-snapshot.exclude_list? > > No, it should not. > > If live-snapshot.list does not exist it creates a list of all files in > /cow. > The bug (please open one n the BTS) is that in this case your exclude lists > needs to have relative paths. > > Thanking for spotting it. Ill' commit a fix. > Ok, I'll try again. My first attempt at using reportbug failed with some sort of GUI problem (dialog box with no text and yes/no buttons). Csaba
