On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Daniel Baumann <daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net> wrote: > On 06/28/2012 02:22 AM, Rui Miguel P. Bernardo wrote: >> I tried to apply all that in the patch. > > good, so we're entirely on the same page, great. > >> Because daily installer builds are not in snapshots.debian.org > > probably they should be? i'll open a bug about it later.. in the meanwhile.. >
The url is http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/. It would be great if it could get to snapshots.debian.org, like security and backports are. >> lb config -d squeeze --snapshot 20120601 >> >> would make a live image where built with the repos on that date and with >> binary sources.list using that date snapshot repositories and not the >> latest repos, right? > > yes. > And what do you think about the installed system? Although live-build sets everything to snapshots.debian.org in the _live_ image, the same will not happen in d-i. The installed system will have a sources.list normally created by apt-setup with the normal local country mirror of the normal debian repository (if chosen during install). The installed image will be upgraded by d-i when the install finishes. I think this should be made clear in the man pages later, to not mislead the user to think that live-build will install a "frozen" system. Anyway, a "frozen" _installed_ system is not wanted by anybody but only for something like a kiosk system maybe, and even then, the admin surely will setup/preseed d-i to use the correct snapshot intentionally, if not using a real live system, which would be much better for a kiosk needs. Personally, I find that the real advantage of using daily d-i with snapshots is for d-i debug purposes or to use an installer that works when the actual is broken. >> should we try to get the "closest" daily installer or give an error if >> daily installer does not exist for that date? > > imho give a very prominent warning and fall back to the previous (=the > one which is the closest one before/older than the snapshot) available one. > That will be hard because I can't see a simple way compare dates now, but I'll come out with something. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAP1Yx5xPkP0HB6_T=2ifhehq_q5vwr3y1-0yjavadf3r0vd...@mail.gmail.com
