Re: Help with modification on the Debian installer (tasksel)

[nidr <drnlk2a@gmail.com>]

On 6/13/05, Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl> wrote:

On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 07:22:25AM +0200, nidr wrote:
> I want to modify the Debian installer.
> So I've downloaded the source of tasksel 2.23 and made a deb from the
> source with the "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot" command. And replaced my
> "unofficial" tasksel_2.23_all.deb file with the original one in the
> pool/main/t/tasksel directory on my sarge iso.
> So I thought this would work (just for testing purpose atm), but I get
> an error under the installation procedure "Installing the Debian base
> system":
> Validating tasksel...
> Debootstrap Error
> Couldn't download tasksel.
>
> I've updated the md5sums.txt file with the command "find -follow -type
> f` > md5sum.txt"
> I've also updated the md5sum in the Packages.gz files located in
> dists/sarge/main/binary-i386/ and dists/testing/main/binary-i386/
> What am I doing wrong?
> I haven't modified the source at all, just made a .deb out of the
> original tasksel 2.23 source.
>
> -Thanks for any input.

Have you seen the thread from 2004-12-22 on this mailinglist?
It is about creating a custom tasksel task.


HTH
Geert Stappers

Thanks, I've read the thread now. But there is something I do not understand.
And that's how I can move my program to /usr/lib/tasksel/packages, in the thread you mention there is someone
saying something about base-config. But I do not have a clue what to do.
I do have a program, all I need to know is how to make that program go into the /usr/lib/tasksel/packages inside the .deb file:)