Re: Patch for simple-cdd and debian-cd 3.0

[vagrant@freegeek.org]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 11:53:27AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, vagrant@freegeek.org wrote:
> > > If you want to use debian-cd 3.0.0 instead of the svn trunk, you have to
> > > add "$debian_cd_dir/tools" in the PATH before calling the various
> > > debian-cd targets and you have to manually call the mirrorcheck target
> > > before "make images".
> > 
> > if the svn code for debian-cd don't make it into etch, we will probably
> > want code to work around debian-cd 3.0.0's limitations in simple-cdd.
> 
> I already spoke to Steve about this, and a 3.0.1 upload is certainly
> warranted given the number of other fixes that are waiting...

ok, good :)
 
> > i'll see what gustavo comes up with and try and merge the patches
> > sometime this weekend hopefully :)
> 
> Yes, please update the "etch-simple-cdd" branch since I point some of my
> customers there and I'd like to see it working too. :-)

after looking at both patch sets, i'll definitely merge a few of your
changes not present in gustavo's patches(in simple-cdd.conf, largely)...

only part that's got me wondering is this:

=== modified file 'profiles/default.downloads'
--- profiles/default.downloads  2006-12-23 21:15:48 +0000
+++ profiles/default.downloads  2007-02-28 06:40:03 +0000
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@
 mdetect
 read-edid

+# debian-cd uses debootstrap from the mirror
+debootstrap
+
 # other packages that debian-cd complains about if they're not there:
 # remove them at your own risk.
 ash

does the debootstrap package actually need to go on the generated CD ? i
did stumble across some code in debian-cd that looked like it somehow
used the debootstrap.deb ... anyone know more about this?

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  vagrant