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

[Alex King <alex@king.net.nz>]

Indeed that worked very well and resulted in a successful build, thank you.

My next steps:

* Follow https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2017/12/msg00375.html to build 
with a backports kernel.
* Try to do the same with Jessie, which is what my customer actually wants.
* Make whatever changes necessary so the backport kernel is installed in the 
installed system as well as the installer.

If that works maybe set up a regular build and put that up on http for people to 
use.  I.e. stable/oldstable netboot with backport kernels.  I think there would 
be interest in that for people trying to get older versions on latest hardware, 
which is my use case.

Thanks again,
Alex

On 28/01/18 06:02, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Alex King <alex@king.net.nz> (2018-01-27):
> > 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
> If you're going to build using make under build/ directly, you need to
> pass a few variables to get appropriate settings. You're lacking at
> least USE_UDEBS_FROM, which defaults to unstable:
>
>      build/config/common:USE_UDEBS_FROM ?= unstable
>
> This should work (provided you start from a clean tree):
>
>      make -C build build_netboot USE_UDEBS_FROM=stretch
>
> Alternatively, use dpkg-buildpackage, so that debian/rules sets the
> appropriate variables for you.
>
> > $ 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
> → unstable instead of stretch, as expected.
>
> > $ apt-cache search virtio-modules-4.9.0-4-amd64-di
> >
> > (nothing)
> That's expected given your sources.list: no main/debian-installer
> component there, so apt doesn't know about those udebs. Try rmadison
> (from devscripts) instead.
>
>
> By the way, there's a bump from 4.9.0-4 to 4.9.0-5 coming up through
> stretch-proposed-updates. I've pushed an updated to the stretch branch
> accordingly:
>
>    https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/debian-installer.git/commit/?id=71c369f53351dab573d153cda41ee26351a85564
>
>
> Cheers,