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Re: Beginner question - stable installer build fails - why?

Hi, thanks for your help, see below regarding documentation.


On 28/01/18 00:52, Geert Stappers wrote:

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 11:38:54AM +1300, Alex King wrote:

I'm trying to build an installer following build/README, but must
have something basic wrong.  So far I have:

  * apt-get source debian-installer
  * Install the build-dependencies on the host system
  * (did not install a sources list as I'm happy with the system one)
  * make build_netboot


I would have start with

   make


And upon success

   make build_netboot




This fails with lots of missing udebs:

...

E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'virtio-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di'
Makefile:633: recipe for target 'stamps/get_udebs-netboot-stamp' failed
make[2]: *** [stamps/get_udebs-netboot-stamp] Error 100
Makefile:288: recipe for target '_build' failed
make[1]: *** [_build] Error 2
Makefile:282: recipe for target 'build_netboot' failed
make: *** [build_netboot] Error 2

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch main
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch main
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main

$ cat sources.list.udeb
# This file is automatically generated, edit sources.list.udeb.local instead.
deb [trusted=yes]
copy:/home/developer/debian-installer-20170615+deb9u2/build/
localudebs/
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable main/debian-installer
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main/debian-installer

$ apt-cache search virtio-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di

(nothing)

$ grep virtio-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di /var/lib/apt/lists/*
/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_stretch_main_source_Sources:
multipath-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di, usb-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di,
usb-storage-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di,
pcmcia-storage-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di,
fb-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di, input-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di,
event-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di, mouse-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di,
nic-pcmcia-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di,
pcmcia-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di, nic-usb-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di,
sata-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di, acpi-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di,
i2c-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di, crc-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di,
crypto-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di, crypto-dm-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di,
efi-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di, ata-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di,
mmc-core-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di, mmc-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di,
nbd-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di, squashfs-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di,
speakup-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di, virtio-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di,
uinput-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di, sound-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di,
hyperv-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di, udf-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di,
fuse-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di,
/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_stretch_main_source_Sources:
virtio-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di udeb debian-installer extra
arch=amd64 profile=!stage1

So maybe those are available in sources but not as binary packages?


What am I doing wrong?

} What should I do?

Tell which documentation is being used.

So that it can become clear what should be changed.
   ( the documentation  or the steps sofar done )
I wanted to build a net installer that would load stable (actually jessie but I'll start with stable) but using a recent kernel.
Firstly I went to https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller#Development and https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/CheckOut
I checked out the dev version using Anonymous checkout instructions and was reading... "If you just want to build bootable images, see d-i/installer/build/README"
So I was reading that README and realised that I probably wanted to build from stable not the development version, so I followed the instructions in there starting with "apt-get source debian-installer", the rest you can see in my original message.
Now that I see Cyril's message it makes sense to use dpkg-buildpackage.  I don't build debian packages every day so I am not really familiar with all the normal tools/workflow of a debian developer.
Now I am reading https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Build, which my browser tells me I read before (maybe a while ago.)  I see that has the advice to use dpkg-buildpackage.
Probably a note about dpkg-buildpackage and/or debian/rules could go in build/README? 

Cheers,
Alex


Groeten
Geert Stappers
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