Hi Ben, On Sat, Dec 06, 2014 at 12:23:15PM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote: > And here's my report of my test build: > > On 06/12/14 09:26 AM, Ben Armstrong wrote: > > Here are some notes from my quick initial review (before attempting a > > build): > > > > 1. Strictly speaking you don't need > > config/package-lists/live.list.chroot, as /usr/lib/live/build/config > > automatically creates this file and populates it with appropriate > > contents (for jessie/sid, exactly what you have in it now). > > But this worked fine in my build anyway, as expected. I'll remove that file from the config in git, as it's being autogenerated anyway. > > 2. You have debs directly in the config. It's preferable to configure > > your image to point at a publicly accessible apt archive containing your > > development deb snapshots. Alternatively, during the development cycle > > you could make auto/config responsible for populating a local repo > > directly from git with metapackages via blends-dev. > > I'll see, next, if I can work something out based on this second approach. It should just be: * git clone * make dist * git-buildpackage * cp *.deb Which I think could be handled by auto/config just fine. > > 3. You have config/includes.binary/isolinux/splash.png and live-images > > has config/bootloaders/isolinux/splash.svg. I don't know if this is a > > problem. I merely point out the difference. > > The splash image was picked up and used, so it seems this configuration > is fine. Cool. > > None of these things should be fatal for the build. Later, I'll have a > > look at an actual build using a jessie i386 build host (but with amd64 > > kernel, so an amd64 image can be produced) and live-build 4.0.3-1. My > > personal build host is slow, so this will take a while. :) > > The build was successful and booted and performed autologin as the live > user to the MATE desktop fine on an EeePC model 1001px. I connected to > my wireless WPA2 network and briefly popped onto channel #debian via > xchat. As for the hamradio packages, I noted their presence in the menus > but otherwise didn't know what to do with them. ;) Yep, people have been playing with the ISO I built and have been telling me that the ham radio software works, but have also pointed out bits that don't, like things looking for /dev/dsp when it doesn't exist. The ISO I built has now been downloaded over 300 times. Thanks, Iain. -- e: irl@fsfe.org w: iain.learmonth.me x: irl@jabber.fsfe.org t: +447875886930 c: 2M0STB g: IO87we p: 1F72 607C 5FF2 CCD5 3F01 600D 56FF 9EA4 E984 6C49
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