ryan <ryan.braun@ec.gc.ca> (2014-02-28): > Hey guys, I've created remastered lenny and squeeze install isos for our > org in the past, but we've since moved to amd64 as our main platform, and > I have some questions about trying to manually create a multiarch iso. > > Previously, I would do a vanilla install, clean up apt, then do any > system updates, as well as our own packages. Then pull everything out of > /var/cache/apt/archives and create a mini repo using dpkg-scanpackages. > Then define that repo in the preseed file. > > This all worked well enough with a single i386 arch, but I'm wondering if > apt/dpkg is smart enough for me to do the same with a base amd64 install, > then enable i386 support? > > I'd turn on i386 support and install any additional files via > preseed/late_command. But do I need some kind of separate setup/pool for > the i386 packages? You probably want to look at reprepro, which lets you handle several architectures in a single repository: http://mirrorer.alioth.debian.org/ It works a bit differently from dpkg-scanpackages, but it's worth the efforts on the middle/long run. Mraw, KiBi.
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