thoughts about adding tmpfs support to live-helper

2010-05-21 Thread Daniel Baumann
Hi, using tmpfs as easy as possible within live-helper would be nice (optional, of course, since we can't know the amount of ram and the image size to build) in order to speed up the build process a bit, but to do that most effectively, the whole build-tree should be in the tmpfs. since we can't

Re: thoughts about adding tmpfs support to live-helper

2010-05-21 Thread surreal
a classic rule of unix - 'if it aint broken, dont fix it' regards. 2010/5/21 Daniel Baumann > Hi, > > using tmpfs as easy as possible within live-helper would be nice > (optional, of course, since we can't know the amount of ram and the > image size to build) in order to speed up the build proc

Re: thoughts about adding tmpfs support to live-helper

2010-05-21 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 05/21/2010 02:05 PM, surreal wrote: > a classic rule of unix - 'if it aint broken, dont fix it' not helpful, it's a non-argument. if there would be anything true about it, we would be in the stone age still. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email:

Re: thoughts about adding tmpfs support to live-helper

2010-05-21 Thread Marco Amadori
In data venerdì 21 maggio 2010 13:19:44, Daniel Baumann ha scritto: > since we can't know the current directy before building, and to avoid > moving things arround in a hackish way, there's only one solution that i > can think of: moving everything except the config into build/, and > having build

Re: thoughts about adding tmpfs support to live-helper

2010-05-21 Thread Marco Amadori
In data venerdì 21 maggio 2010 14:05:28, surreal ha scritto: > a classic rule of unix - 'if it aint broken, dont fix it' This is just a bad habit to avoid constant refactoring in bad IT departments. There is no such a thing like a "unix rule" other than "KISS" [0] and "The art of Unix programmi

Re: thoughts about adding tmpfs support to live-helper

2010-05-21 Thread Richard Nelson
Greetings, On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Marco Amadori wrote: > In data venerdì 21 maggio 2010 13:19:44, Daniel Baumann ha scritto: > >> since we can't know the current directy before building, and to avoid >> moving things arround in a hackish way, there's only one solution that i >> can thin

Re: thoughts about adding tmpfs support to live-helper

2010-05-21 Thread Jiří Paleček
On Fri, 21 May 2010 13:19:44 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: Hi, Hello, using tmpfs as easy as possible within live-helper would be nice (optional, of course, since we can't know the amount of ram and the image size to build) in order to speed up the build process a bit, but to do that most ef

Using debian upgrade while working with Persistence boot option

2010-05-21 Thread Mgr. Janusz Chmiel
Dear very kind and professional developers, I would like to very valuably and kindly please You, if is it possible to perform regular upgrades while using upgrade tool from Administration menu? I Am using 74 GB EXT2 partition with The label live-rw. Is it possible to perform standard, not s

Re: l-h: isohybrid typo => bug in Git

2010-05-21 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Daniel Baumann wrote (21 May 2010 05:45:46 GMT) : > On 05/21/2010 07:39 AM, intrigeri wrote: >> git grep LH_BINARY_ISO_HYRBID > i'm afraid i don't understand, what do you mean? Forget about it, I'm sorry. Seems like I was really lacking some coffee when reading the Git log. Bye, -- intri

Re: thoughts about adding tmpfs support to live-helper

2010-05-21 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Daniel Baumann wrote (21 May 2010 11:19:44 GMT) : > since we can't know the current directy before building, and to avoid > moving things arround in a hackish way, there's only one solution that i > can think of: moving everything except the config into build/, and > having build/ on a tmpfs.

Re: thoughts about adding tmpfs support to live-helper

2010-05-21 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 05/21/2010 04:25 PM, Jiří Paleček wrote: > there are various other > opportunities for speed up - for one thing, the chroot/chroot device > does not help, etc. chroot/chroot is required in order to ensure to not taint the target system with the host systems tools (especially when building a dif

Re: thoughts about adding tmpfs support to live-helper

2010-05-21 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Jiří Paleček wrote (21 May 2010 14:25:06 GMT) : > I agree that the build in live-helper could be a lot faster; yet I'm > not conviced using tmpfs is the right way to go On a build box with 8GB RAM, building an ISO using tmpfs is *really* faster: the IO subsystem stops being the bottleneck, wh

Re: l-h: isohybrid typo => bug in Git

2010-05-21 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 05/21/2010 04:53 PM, intrigeri wrote: > Forget about it, I'm sorry. Seems like I was really lacking some > coffee when reading the Git log. sure, no problem. always better to have a false alarm rather than to not catch a real one ;) -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-45

Re: thoughts about adding tmpfs support to live-helper

2010-05-21 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 05/21/2010 04:49 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > besides.. for those that know what they are doing (e.g. they are sure > that their host dist is the same as the target distribution), they can > disable chrooted build. this is present since about two eterneties. jftr: live-helper (1.0~a19-1) unstab

Any display manager autologin does not work.

2010-05-21 Thread fruity
Hello, since my last message I've been struggling to get slim display manager to autologin with the user I've set up, but it does not work. So today I made an iso hybrid with kdm one with gdm and the autologin does not work, it show me the login manager and ask me for a password which as we all kn

--binary-filesystem fat32 creating hidden ntfs partition scheme

2010-05-21 Thread fruity
/sdc1 on /media/Debian squeeze 20100521-19:18 type iso9660 and not fat32. what do I have to do to achieve a fat32 partition scheme and filesystem? Thank you very much. fruity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Standardize to machine readable package manifest

2010-05-21 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 20100521 om 07:25 schreef Daniel Baumann: > On 05/20/2010 09:34 AM, Cody A.W. Somerville wrote: > > > 3. The manifest file will be stored at > > binary/casper/filesystem.manifest and binary/live/filesystem.manifest > > for casper and live-initramfs respectively. >

Re: [PATCH] Standardize to machine readable package manifest

2010-05-21 Thread Cody A.W. Somerville
Hello Daniel, On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 05/20/2010 09:34 AM, Cody A.W. Somerville wrote: > > > 3. The manifest file will be stored at > > binary/casper/filesystem.manifest and binary/live/filesystem.manifest > > for casper and live-initramfs respectively. > >

Re: --binary-filesystem fat32 creating hidden ntfs partition scheme

2010-05-21 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 05/21/2010 08:08 PM, fru...@freaknet.org wrote: > I did an hybrid iso using --binary-filesystem fat32 iso-hybrid results in a iso9660 filesystem, this can't be changed. --binary-filesystem is only (possible to use) for usb-hdd images. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH

Re: [PATCH] Standardize to machine readable package manifest

2010-05-21 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 05/21/2010 09:58 PM, Cody A.W. Somerville wrote: > Ubuntu uses .manifest for its images plus ubiquity requires the > .manifest file to work correctly. On IRC, you suggested separate > behavior for Ubuntu and Debian as a solution to this. However, I want it > to have the same behavior/name to ma

Re: Any display manager autologin does not work.

2010-05-21 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 05/21/2010 07:18 PM, fru...@freaknet.org wrote: > I'm on a sid with the latest packages from the live repository, what am I > doing wrong? there's live-initramfs 2.x in live.debian.net/debian; don't use it if you want to play labor rat, but use (atm) normal sid or squeeze instead. -- Address:

Re: [PATCH] Standardize to machine readable package manifest

2010-05-21 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 20100522 om 00:19 schreef Daniel Baumann: > 13:50:41 < dba> (and about the manifest things, let me sleep over it) FWIW http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer-i386/current/images/ http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/ have