Some corrections/suggestions to live-helper

[Antonio.Amorim at sim.fc.ul.pt (Antonio Amorim)]

Dear colleagues,
  First of all, my thanks. Live-helper is really becoming an excellent tool!

  I add bellow some corrections to live-helper  that I put together. If 
you would rather have them as separate bug reports please let me know.

1 - On /etc/cron.daily/live-helper
 the ARCHITECTURE options -a amd64 or -a i386 are missing from
the make-live statment.
Something like:
 if [ "$ARCHITECTURE" == "amd64" ]
 then
        OPTIONS="${OPTIONS} -a amd64"
  fi
  if [ "$ARCHITECTURE" == "i386" ]
  then
         OPTIONS="${OPTIONS} -a i386"
  fi

2 - For amd64, in  lh_binary_debian-installer, downloading the elilo 
package raises an exception that is caught by trap and messes 
everything. Please remove it.
@@ -175,7 +202,7 @@

 case "${LIVE_ARCHITECTURE}" in
        amd64)
-               DI_PACKAGES="linux-image-2.6-amd64 elilo lilo grub"
+               DI_PACKAGES="linux-image-2.6-amd64 lilo grub"
                ;;

        i386)

3 - If one has a package list that contains many packages aptitude can 
go into an infinite loop while guessing the dependences. I have seen 
this behavior systematically in etch.
Everything is fine if aptitude installs one package at the time.
My patch goes in lh_chroot_packageslists:
--- lh_chroot_packageslists     2007-06-16 23:42:41.000000000 +0100
+++ lh_chroot_packageslists.new 2007-06-16 23:44:59.000000000 +0100
@@ -61,19 +61,21 @@
                        # Installing package list
                        case "${LH_APT}" in
                                apt|apt-get)
-                                       Chroot "xargs 
--arg-file=/root/${LIST} apt-get install --yes"
+                                       Chroot "xargs -L 1 
--arg-file=/root/${LIST} apt-get install --yes"
                                        ;;

                                aptitude)
-                                       Chroot "xargs 
--arg-file=/root/${LIST} aptitude install --assume-yes"
+                                       Chroot "xargs -L 1 
--arg-file=/root/${LIST} aptitude install --assume-yes"
                                        ;;
                        esac

                        # Removing package list
                        rm -f chroot/root/"${LIST}"
                fi
+
        done

+


I hope this can help a bit your excellent work.

All the best,
Antonio Amorim


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