Re: Suggestions for udeb development?
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 01:16:10PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 10:43:23PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > I am interested in getting the evms udeb into a working state, and would
> > appreciate any pointers regarding an efficient way to organize my
> > development environment so that I can iteratively make changes to the udeb
> > and test.
> >
> > For instance, is there a way that I can get d-i to download a udeb over the
> > network, or from a mounted filesystem, in preference (or in addition) to
> > those on the installation media?
>
> Personally I use the 'monolithic' build target type, which lets you
> build all necessary udebs into the CD-ROM image. If you have CD-RWs,
> this works out well. Does that help?
Actually, that is sort of the situation I want to avoid: re-burning a CD-RW
each time I want to test a change. I would rather be able to modify a
network repository of udebs, if that is possible, and have the existing
media grab my new udeb.
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- mdz
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