Customization-modules: working version
OK, after much work I have a functional version of customization-modules,
at http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/debian/customization-modules_0.7.tar.gz .
http//home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/debian/dummy-udeb_0.2_all.udeb contains
a mostly-empty udeb which I use as a test case: this is the udeb I attempt to
install as a "customization module". Look for /lib/firmware/dummy-file.txt.
Loading from CD-ROM is disabled because of unforeseen problems -- loading
cdrom-retriever causes the CD-ROM to be checked for validity, and of course the netboot
CD isn't a valid Debian apt source. I suspect that the best solution will be tweaks
of a similar scale to the tweaks I made to net-retriever (small tweaks, that is).
Loading from the network is untested, mainly because I haven't set up a network site
to load from.
Loading from floppy, however, *works* as of now.
One minor issue: upon configuring anna, which happens when I invoke the
customization-modules main menu item, anna asks about kernel module loading. I have
simply been saying "no". Is there some way to avoid this -- to tell anna 'do that
later, not now'? Under the expected use case, we may well want to load the
customization modules specifically *before* loading kernel modules.
Future plans: I think I'll have to break this into four binary packages. One
for the main menu item, and one for each of the possible sources. This is due
to dependencies: I don't want choose-mirror to configure when the user didn't choose
net, for instance.
All in all, this is going pretty well.
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Nathanael Nerode <neroden@fastmail.fm>
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