I can't speak about how debian's system of mirrors might affect zsync,
but for linuxcnc's images I've seen substantial savings with zsync,
typically 80-85% reduced data transfer when downloading the next .iso
image.
One thing I just discovered is that zsync apparently can't handle https:
URLs! :-
On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 09:43:40PM +0100, Phil Wyett wrote:
> Images created without pulling in from 'updates' and 'security' repos.
>
> This leaves images very out of date. Images should have all the latest
> packages.
In linuxcnc's stretch image, I compensate for this in customise.sh by adding
I apologize for not taking care to understand the question being asked
before I responded. Please understand that I was trying to be helpful
to a fellow Debian user.
Jeff
[re-sent with a copy to the list]
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 11:28:43AM -0400, PICCORO McKAY Lenz wrote:
> i build a live but only using official repositories
>
> i want to install two packages manually two deb files? how?
You can do this via the "customise" script. If your lwr has a
"--customise=
---
We use this when building the LinuxCNC live image to preseed the
root-login to false (root via sudo) and to add "dialout" to the default
group list (to give access to serial hardware such as MODBUS devices)
lwr/bootloader.py | 7 ---
lwr/run.py| 13 +++--
2 files changed,
---
We are using this patch to build LinuxCNC live images, because we need
features available only in the "-rt" kernel.
lwr/run.py | 6 +-
lwr/vm.py | 4 +++-
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lwr/run.py b/lwr/run.py
index bef34c0..1f28ab6 100644
--- a/lwr/run.py
On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 06:19:06AM +0100, Phil Wyett wrote:
Hi,
To roll up all the patches I have sent to the list. Attached is a nmu2
debdiff that addresses what was included in previous emails
[...]
Looks good, thank you!
Jeff
Package: live-wrapper
Version: 0.6+nmu1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 3.5
Dear Maintainer,
Hi. after installing live-wrapper with --no-install-recommends, it does
not function properly, eventually issuing an error that /tmp/.../live
can not be found. I believe that this is because it
[re-sent on list, apologies for the duplicate]
On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 08:57:31AM +0200, Narcis Garcia wrote:
Can I follow some procedure that drives me to build a Hurd kernel based
Debian-Live?
I don't think this works at present.
You would start with something like:
$ sudo lwr -o hurd.iso
