Re: Including additional packages on the Debian base CD

[Free Ekanayaka <free@agnula.org>]

>>>>> On Thu, 20 May 2004 08:56:28 -0300, Andre Luis Lopes <andrelop@debian.org> said:

    Andre> [1 <text/plain; iso-8859-1 (quoted-printable)>] Hi Free,

    Andre> On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 01:50:03PM +0200, Free Ekanayaka
    Andre> wrote:
    >> Petter, thanks for your quick reply.
    >> 
    >> I'm new to the debian-cd package, but it looks quite simple to
    >> use. I'll try to create a test iso in the next days and report
    >> you.

    Andre> Please, let me know how well it worked. I'm also pretty
    Andre> interested in learning something about Custom Debian
    Andre> Distributions and also trying to start experimenting with
    Andre> debian-cd.

I'm  almost done in preparing a  customised d-i  for the aGNUla/DeMuDi
CDD, and I have to say that this new d-i is sooo beautiful and easy to
tweak.

I'm basing on the beta4 release, and I decided not to use debian-cd for the moment.

I simply replaced the pool/ and dist/ trees, which include:

1) all the packages needed by debootstrap
2) all the main/debian-installer section
3) an home made udeb which installs a package which customise 
   the base-config menu
4) the optional packages used by DeMuDi

Everything is running fine..

I still do not understand  which is the   proper way to  autoconfigure
XFree86, by now I'm using xdebconfigurator and dexconf.

Moreover it would be nice to have a tool which builds a minimum Debian
mirror  with  just the packages  needed  by  debootstrap and  the most
important udebs. I  think that this way we  could use debian-cd with a
bottom-up approach, without downloading a whole debian mirror.

ciao,

free