Re: CD Creation Tool
Gerhard Poul <gp@atnet.at> writes:
> Hi,
>
> > This alone is not accepted as reason for being faster. It just shows your
> > dislike of make.
>
> No... Both are features... it's fast _and_ there are no Makefiles... :)))
>
> I don't dislike make... But I don't use it for programming scripts...
>
> It's really okay for the purpose it was built for ...
>
> The purpose of the make utility is to determine automati-
> cally which pieces of a large program need to be recom-
> piled, and issue the commands to recompile them.
>
> But I don't use it for creating cd's :)))
I would be nice to have dependencies, so when creating a set of CDs,
it only remakes the once that changed.
> And perl is _really_ easy to modify I think... (What do you think??)
How should understnd your perl code? I found that perl is a language
where even a one line is incomprehensible to non masters of perl.
Unless you write good comments and keep the syntax easy, reading your
script will be hell.
> > How fare have you gone?
>
> hmmm... It's able to create cd's for all architectures (but it works only on
> a filesystem (also nfs) but it's not able to create cd's off an http or ftp
> server...)
Does it work for hamm, slink, potato?
Have a look at mc, or libtricks to make a ftp/http-fs. Libtricks might
slow the thing down, but normally ftp isn't that fast to make a
difference (If you have >1MB/s, you probably have nfs or better access).
> > That's something we don't know currently. Can you provide me with the
> > current snapshot of your tool? Perhaps r/o access to your CVS repository?
>
> Think that's possible in a few days when we have applied all modifications
> we want to make to the program and we create a CVS repository ...
>
> (because it started one night when we wanted to create a debian-alpha
> cd-rom... :))) so it wasn't really important to have a cvs repository until
> now... and it's stored on 3 different computers and we have to put the
> together and import it to the cvs repository...)
>
> > This comes to my mind as requirements:
>
> thanks for these things. If you have some other ideas please let us know!!
> We are very interested in these things!!
>
> > . Different configuration files for cd-roms
> > . Automatic creation of directories, links
> > . Copying / hardlinking of files
> > . Creation of Packages and Packages.cd files
> > . Maybe creation of Contents- files
> > . Creation of additional files
> > . Splitting the distribution according to some to-be-defined rules
> > . Correct handling of binary-$arch and binary-all dirs
> > . Multiarchitectuer
> > . Ways to create botable cd's / not-bootable ones
> > . Ways to create cd nr. n from the whole set of m cd's
> . Creating cd's from an http or ftp server (?)
> . Reading the different cdrom sizes from a file (the user only tells
> the program which cd he uses...)
- Stabling of symlinks between distributions.
- Keeping symlinks to binary-all, if multi-arch CD-sets are wanted.
> What we need:
>
> . rules for "official" debian standard cd-roms
> . A general installation procedure which installs from multiple
> mediums I think. Because it'd be possible then to install from DVD,
> ZIP, or JAZ then...
>
> don't know more at the moment. Please mail all your comments and ideas to
> me.
Would it be to hard to include a demo filesystem, that can be started
directly form the CD/zip/jaz/dvd/dos-fs/<medium with enough space>. I
thing this would eat up ~20-40 MB of one cD, but it would be real nice
to just try Debian or as a rescue system.
I've done this for m68k and I did it for i386 sometime ago. I also
want to make a debian package of a "rescue medium buildscript" once/if
I become a maintainer. Maybe I should package that up and stick it
onto an ftp server.
Planned features include (but not limited to :):
-- running on a native partition (e.g. dos)
-- running on zip/jaz/cd
-- running via nfs
-- running via ftp (if I can work out an ftp-fs)
Booting should be possible via bootdisk, of the medium, nfs or from
dos.
Included should be the basic unix tools (as a rescue system) and some
nice showoff programms for showing and playing around (e.g. xbill,
xaos,...) [Yes, X could be on there in a slimed down fashion].
If such a demo/rescue system is wanted, I can raise its priority on my
todolist, so that it could be vailable with slink.
May the Source be with you.
Goswin
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