Re: Building d-i
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Stephane Enten wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 06:50:37AM +0800, debian@computerdatasafe.com.au wrote:
> > On 17 Mar 2003, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> >
> > > obviously not, since you should ordinarily not build
> > > libdebian-installer yourself, you should just install it into your
> > > host system. libdebian-installer is a normal debian package, which is
> > > built like all normal debian packages.
> > >
> > > Please, please read all the stuff doc/*, the various README files
> > > lying around and the Developer's Reference.
> >
> > I had read the doc/* before I started. Obviously I had missed
> > build/README, but I have now read that, more than once, and the
> > information I need is not there.
> >
> > I have already pointed out one error in the documentation, and here's
> > another:
> > [summer@gw summer]$ lynx -dump http://people.debian.org/~tfheen/debian-installer/
> >
> > Not Found
> >
> > The requested URL /~tfheen/debian-installer/ was not found on
> > this
> > server.
> > _________________________________________________________________
> >
> >
> > Apache/1.3.26 Server at people.debian.org Port 80
> > [summer@gw summer]$
> >
> >
> > Please, take the time to check that the documentation you want me to
> > read is correct, and has pointers to necessary supplementary material
> > such as relevant sections of the Developer's Reference.
> >
> > Also, check that you provide "complete source code" as described in the
> > GPL. I have the feeling that the files and /or scripts to make the
> > package is missing.
>
> I've been able to build the floppy 'net' image without any trouble only
> by installing the needed packages on the host system (and removing the
> bogl stuff from the floppy tree), so I guess everything's there to build
> the package.
>
> If you want an easy way to find what's missing, just try to run the
> build process by entering the 'build' directory and run
> "make TYPE=whateveryouwant build".
>
> Then you'll soon see which packages are missing. Install them on the
> host system, and re-run, it'll work fine.
It may well be that I am missing something incredibly obvious, and I
will be delighted if someone can point it out.
I have checked out debian-installer, and I have these main directories:
chroot [root@numbat tmp]# find debian-installer -type d -maxdepth 1
debian-installer
debian-installer/CVS
debian-installer/anna
debian-installer/doc
debian-installer/build
debian-installer/kernel-image-di
debian-installer/kernel-splitter
debian-installer/libd-i
debian-installer/libdebian-installer
debian-installer/main-menu
debian-installer/retriever
debian-installer/rootskel
debian-installer/tools
debian-installer/utils
chroot [root@numbat tmp]#
What I want to do is to build all these packages, and then go on to
create bootable disks from the results. I expect at some point to have a
set of udebs.
Those directories come from a tarball I created from the checkout, which
I did under another account name.
Here are the commands I have used most recently:
#!/bin/bash -xe
cd /tmp
rm -rf debian-installer
ls -oh debian-installer.tar.bz2
tar xjf debian-installer.tar.bz2
cd debian-installer/libdebian-installer
make all install
cd ../build/
cp -p sources.list sources.list.local
fakeroot make TYPE=net build
This failed with these messages:
Need to download : di-utils-shell rootskel anna main-menu cdebconf-udeb
udpkg busybox-udeb dash-udeb kernel-image-2.4.20-386-udeb choose-mirror
net-retriever netcfg-static netcfg-dhcp pump-udeb modutils-basic
ethdetect nic-modules-shared-2.4.20-386-udeb
socket-modules-2.4.20-386-udeb isa-pnp-modules-2.4.20-386-udeb
nic-modules-2.4.20-386-udeb
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
anna: Depends: libdebian-installer3 (>= 0.10) but it is not
installable
ethdetect: Depends: libdebian-installer3 (>= 0.10) but it is not
installable
Depends: libdiscover1 but it is not installable
main-menu: Depends: libdebian-installer3 (>= 0.10) but it is not
installable
netcfg-dhcp: Depends: libdebian-installer3 (>= 0.10) but it is not
installable
netcfg-static: Depends: libdebian-installer3 (>= 0.10) but it is not
installable
pump-udeb: Depends: libpopt0 (>= 1.6.4) but 1.6.2-7 is to be installed
E: Sorry, broken packages
make: *** [net-get_udebs-stamp] Error 100
chroot [root@numbat root]#
Now, I have actually built and installed libdebian-installer:
chroot [root@numbat tmp]# ls /usr/lib/libdebian-installer.*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9280 Mar 18 21:03
/usr/lib/libdebian-installer.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Mar 18 21:03
/usr/lib/libdebian-installer.so -> libdebian-installer.so.3.2.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Mar 18 21:03
/usr/lib/libdebian-installer.so.3 -> libdebian-installer.so.3.2.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15276 Mar 18 21:03
/usr/lib/libdebian-installer.so.3.2.0
chroot [root@numbat tmp]#
but because it didn't go through package manangement, it does not
satisfy the depenencies.
While I could install the package from Sarge, it is actually the CVS
version I want to use and test, so it makes no sense to me to install
the older version.
I have not yet found any way to make any packages from this source, and
that is why I think something is missing.
--
Cheers
John Summerfield
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