Re: di-netboot-assistant update for experimental

["Frank Lin PIAT" <fpiat@klabs.be>]

Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 06:20 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
>> On Friday 16 October 2009, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
>> > I have finally resolved and merged a bunch of patch I had for
>> > di-netboot-assistant.
>> > [..]

I have worked on some patch to clean-up the code, and fix buggy
package removal behaviour. I'll merge them by tomorrow evening.


I have two feature request that are pending, and I need your help:

Using local repository (requested by fjp)
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I wondered how to address this. I now think it would be possible if
the images where structured like this (we can switch arch and dist
folder hierarchy):

 .
 |`-i386
 |    |`-lenny
 |    |      |`netboot.tar.gz
 |    |      ` MD5SUMS
 |    |`-daily-2009-10-28
 |    |      |`netboot.tar.gz
 |    |      ` MD5SUMS
 |     `-daily-2009-10-28
 |           |`netboot.tar.gz
 |           ` MD5SUMS
  `-amd64
      |`-lenny
      |      |`netboot.tar.gz
      |      ` MD5SUMS
       `-daily-2009-10-28
             |`netboot.tar.gz
             ` MD5SUMS

Does it suite your needs?
(That could be used to ship netboot in Debian-Live CDs)

Allow preseeding using TFTP (reqested by Otavio)
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1. Is it possible to simply concatenate multiple tar.gz files?
2. Is it possible to simply concatenate multiple tar in one .gz files?
3. Or is it possible to pass multiple "initrd=" to  a given Kernel?
4. Or Do I have to modify the tar.gz files.

The above scheme could also be used to include/embedded firmware

Franklin