Re: Headaches while trying to test my own custom d-i modules
Quoting Joey Hess (joey@kitenet.net):
> Myself, I find it easier to include udebs I am testing on the initrd,
> even if they don't normally go there. However, if they depend on a lot
> of libraries, this can result in some large initrds, which may be a
> problem depending on how you're booting (and can require you to increase
> the initrd size kernel parameter to boot properly).
This is what I tried and several others suggested me to do the same.
However, my first tests were with partitioner...which needs fdisk-udeb
for working. fdisk-udeb is huge (because of localisation files) and I
never succeeded at making the initrd small enough...
So I turned to another solution-->loop mount of of manty's images,
copy it somewhere, add my "custom built" udebs there in pool/mail, add
a config file at the root and then run apt-ftparchive on all this.
FInally, build an ISO image with build/dest ans this directory,
combined to be the root of the ISO image.
Seems to work well, except that cdrom-checker currently says that this
CD is not a Debian CD. I have to look at it for learning what is the
used criterion and adapt my stuff to it.
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