howto build cdd?
Hi
Sorry to bug people here in the n-th time, but I still fail to build a
custom Debian CD in a decent automated manner and I try to figure out
what I'm missing.
What I did:
There is an ellusive script called "simple-cdd". It doesn't seem to be
part of any Debian package. I'm not sure what version seems to be the
most recent and tested. Feature-wise it seems just what I need. The sole
problem is that it doesn't work.
Simple-cdd is basically a wrapper around Debian's debian-cd. Originally
it had a problem supporting a local packages source in a decent manner
just as debian-cd has poor support for this. So originally I setteled
for some ugly scripts that basically modify the netinst ISO image.
Those scripts sort of work, but are not well automated.
A workaround for the loal packages is to create a local mirror that will
contain exactly what I need. There seem to be two recent candidates for
such a merging mirror:
* reprepro: works rather nice. I find it very useful for my main apt
source. I still evaluate it for the merging mirror. Problems I have
encountered:
- Does not mirror anything outside pool and dists . Current
workaround: scriptary to mirror the rest through a manual list using
rsync. Sort-of works.
- Requires an explicit packages list from each source of the
repository. Current workaround: an apt wrapper that resolves
dependencies. Only works when there are no conflicts in the packages
lists. Such conflicts are, e.g: asterisk-classic and
asterisk-bristuff. Resolving each package separately is not good
enough as sometimes I wish to avoid certain packages by providing a
certain dependency explicitly.
In short: I'm stuck here.
* deppartial-mirror: I still haven't figured out how to configure it. No
working sample. Looks very nice, though.
The original debian-cd, naturally, unusable, as it doesn't easily
support working as non-root and working in an arbitrary working dir.
I have started to work on a wrapper of my own for it.
My debian-cd wrapper begins by generating a symlinks tree in debian-cd/
under the current working dir to /usr/share/debian-cd . I use there the
above-mentioned reprepro wrapper to generate a local mirror. Unlike the
scripts in the cddt repository, I don't hardwire the name of the apt
sources. Rather, I parse them from the conf/updates file at the price of
an ugly warning at resolve time.
What I currently get is an install CD that begins an installation but
fails at running debootstrap (If I understand the error correctly).
Is it possible to get help for either one of those two in this list?
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