Problems with debian 2.1.91 and potato
Hey all -
We have an almost complete mirror here, minus the sources and non-i386
archs. I also mirror all of debian-non-US and debian-security. Just been
messing around with debian-cd on a potato system to build a couple of binary
images, and noticed a couple of hiccups, noted below ...
(1) tools/potato/installtools.sh thinks that the docs are in
.../disks-$ARCH/documentation rather than .../disks-$ARCH/doc as they really
are.
Simple rename dir fixed that.
(2) make bootable fails. It thinks the boot images are all under the
.../current dir, rather than the .../current/disks-1.44 or disks-2.88 dirs.
(3) It also thinks that the boot image is resc2880.bin rather than
disks-2.88/rescue.bin
These were simple changes to the tools/boot/potato/boot-i386 script.
(4) "make bin-extras CD=1 ROOTSRC=/home/mirrors/ DIR=debian-security" fails
with a mismatched ' somewhere. I wound up running add_files manually, which
seemed to work.
(5) Not really a problem, or perhaps it's just mine. "make list ..."
insists on installing the package developer source stuff. Since we don't
mirror/rsync the source dirs, well, that errors out.
I'm building a custom CD1 only. I copied the tasks/Debian_potato file to
another file, and modified it some. Mainly removed the other countries
tasks, and added all the tasks I could find in the potato tree. That along
with debian-security brought the CD up to about 520meg or.
make list TASK=tasks/potato_special COMPLETE=0 NONUS=1 NONFREE=1
Now a question. Why are there only a few items from contrib put onto the CD
? Is it because a lot of contrib stuff is actually links from the slink
tree, or is it dependency based ?
I have another 130meg or so available on that one CD. Any ideas for how to
fill it ?
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Dean Carpenter deano@areyes.com
94 TT :) Dean.Carpenter@pharma.com
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