Re: build d-i

[Ali Milis <almilis@gmail.com>]

Frans Pop wrote:

> If you want to build the current version of the installer (which because
> of ongoing development work may be broken sometimes), you need an etch
> build environment. Instead of upgrading your whole system, you can also
> set up an etch chroot for that.

Aha! Spoiler Sheet Secret #1. 
Unfortunately in the past, have got horrable experience
for using non-stable more than once! Also using chroot
is simply beyond my capacity.

> If you want to build the "stable" sarge version of the installer, you
> should check out the sarge branch instead of trunk.

Spoiler Sheet Secret #2 sounds more promising!
May I know the svn command to checkout the sarge branch?
I guess it is just replace trunk to sarge. Let me try!
Oops: 
"svn: URL 'svn://svn.d-i.alioth.debian.org/svn/d-i/sarge' doesn't exist"

-- 
 Ali Milis.