Re: dselect (Re: Using dpkg for a custom installation from cdrom media) (fwd)
Henry Hollenberg speed@barney.iamerica.net
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Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 07:42:59 -0600 (CST)
From: Henry Hollenberg <speed@barney.iamerica.net>
To: Joost Kooij <kooij@mpn.cp.philips.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: dselect (Re: Using dpkg for a custom installation from cdrom media)
Henry Hollenberg speed@barney.iamerica.net
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
>
> > Hello Joost and thanks for the reply.
> >
> > I've been tinkering with dselect and I think I've figured out enough to
> > get it to do what it can for me......as far as that goes.
>
> Oh, sorry, I didn't quite get that.
>
> > But I'm trying to do a "custom" install with alots of selected packages
> > for a bastion host/firewall. This would be cumbersome to do by hand on
> > the three machines that would make up the firewall.
>
> > therefore I believe dselect just will not have the functionality required
> > for this project and that is why I'm looking into dpkg.
>
> You're probably wrong about that:
> - theoretically because: dselect builds on dpkg; it provides extra
> functionality that dpkg doesn't have and calls upon dpkg to do what dpkg
> can.
> - practically because: see suggestions below;
>
> > It looks as if dpkg can probably pull it off.....I'm just not sure how to
> > use it in this complex scenario.....I've used it for simpler stuff and it
> > works great.....installing a kernel dselect couldn't find for instance
> > (2.0.33).
>
> Was that a kernel you brewed yourself with kernel-package? Then it
> probably wasn't mentioned in a "Packages" file. How would dselect know
> about your package then?
It's one from Herbert Xu that's not showing up in stable or bo-update:
http://cgi.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/unstable/devel/kernel-source-2.0.33.html
not sure why it's in unstable/devel since it looks like a stable (even
number) release.
once I had the .deb file downloaded I cd'ed to that directory as su and
ran "dpkg -i ./*.deb
and I had my stable sources installed.
then I did "make menuconfig" in the new sources directory tree
then I did, "make-kpkg kernel-image"
then edited lilo.conf
then cd'ed to /usr/src where the new compiled kernel package .deb file was
and ran "dpkg -i *.deb"
and bingo I had a lean mean tuned kernel (also downloaded the latest 3com
driver source from Donald Becker and put that in the source tree before
compilation, 3c59x.c).
>
> Dselect's standard way of getting to know what packages are available in
> an archive is to run dpkg --update-avail on the Packages file that comes
> with the archive.
>
> You could have made a Packages file yourself, with dpkg-scanpackages and
> put that in a DIY archive and use it with dselect (making a custom
> archive). You'll have to make an "override" file too, to get
> dpkg-scanpackages to add sections to the packages entries in the Packages
> file. You can find examples in the ftp.debian.org /debian/indices/
> directory.
Now we're getting somewhere!
I'm going to have to print this one and read and think awhile!
Thanks hgh
>
> Or (not using an archive at all) you could have used dpkg --avail
> custom-kernel.deb. I'm afraid you'd have to put the .deb on a floppy to
> use it with dselect, because that's the only way it knows how to deal with
> a non-archive. In this simple case, dpkg -i by hand is more convinient of
> course.
>
> > so my question remains, what are the steps?
>
> Another solution is to build a package with dependencies on all the
> packages you want to install. Create an archive that contains that
> package, the packages it depends on and packages that those depend on.
> Since you want to build a firewall, you'll probably want to put in a
> _lot_ of conflicts as well ;-).
> Use dpkg-scanpackages to generate a Packages file. Burn it on a cd or
> put it on your ftp site and it should work fine with dselect and deity.
>
> If you're really serious about creating your own cd, then dselect is
> definately the way to go.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Joost
>
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