Firstly, I'm new to this mailing list so greetings and thanks to the
Debian-Live team for such great work. I have built and used many Debian
live images since some years, mostly for pendrive "portable OS" using
syslinux. I use mainly Stable but sometimes Sid :
ii live-boot 3.0~b6-1
ii live-config 3.0.8-1
kernel 3.2.0-4-686-pae
I could not get my custom live-hooks working in Sid. In Squeeze I set
hooks on cmdline with syslinux menu like this :
hooks=file:///live/image/hooks/hookscript
Debug output shows this not recognised (I know already to change that to
/lib/live/image for 3.0.8-1):
+ Hooks
+ [ -z ]
+ return
The man page also the content of 9990-hooks implies that this should be
supported.
It is still possible to set hooks in a seperate config.conf file in
/live. Even then, this file must appear in /lib/live/image/. If it is in
/lib/live/findiso/ it does not seem to work, nor does it from a
directory other than /live. Use of /live is a problem in a multiboot
setup (where one would use live-media-path=whatever or findiso=path/to/iso)
I got around this here by editing /lib/live/config.sh then rebuilding
the image.
This bit, and some others, e.g. locales=whatever (copied from an older
version), was added in the "Cmdline ()" function:
=================================================================
# 999-hooks # (now 9990-hooks)
live-config.hooks=*|hooks=*)
LIVE_HOOKS="${_PARAMETER#*hooks=}"
;;
=================================================================
Then this change, in the "main" function:
********************************************************
# this line is out:
# for _FILE in /etc/live/config.conf /etc/live/config/* \
# /lib/live/image/live/config.conf
/lib/live/image/live/config/*
# this chunk is in immediately after:
LIVEMEDIADIR=$(cat ${_CMDLINE}|grep -o "live-media-path=.*" |sed 's:
.*::' |sed 's:live-media-path=\/::')
if [ -z $LIVEMEDIADIR ]; then
LIVEMEDIADIR=$(cat ${_CMDLINE}|grep -o "findiso=.*" |sed 's: .*::' |sed
's:findiso=\/::')
fi
if [ -z $LIVEMEDIADIR ]; then
LIVEMEDIADIR=live
fi
for _FILE in /etc/live/config.conf /etc/live/config/* \
/lib/live/image/${LIVEMEDIADIR}/config.conf
/lib/live/image/${LIVEMEDIADIR}/config/* \
/lib/live/findiso/${LIVEMEDIADIR}/config.conf
/lib/live/findiso/${LIVEMEDIADIR}/config/*
********************************************************
Of course this is a personal (and probabably ugly) hack but at least I
can now set my custom hooks on cmdline. It works if findiso. It works
also if a config.conf is in the "live-media-path" or "findiso"directory
I see that 3.0.9-1 is now published but no mention of hooks in
changelog. Is this a bug, intended behaviour, something unfinished, or
have I just missed the point?
David Hare
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