Bug#433611: Completely offline CD build

[gareuselesinge at debian.org (Enrico Tassi)]

Package: live-helper
Version: 1.0~a18-1
Severity: wishlist

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I really would like to be able to build (or better rebuild) a CD 
image offline, that is using the packages cache.

As far as I understand this is now impossible because some software like
grub, squashfs and genisoimages are installed/removed every time (and if
you are offline also the 'update' fails).

Is it feasible to have a two mode operation? one in which this stuff is
installed inside the chroot (nice idea to not require this stuff to be
installed on the host) and the other in which all the necessary is
installed on the host. The second mode also allows not to copy the
entire chroot (that by the way has recently been reverted to the slow cp
-a instead of cp -al).

Cheers
--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.21.1-mactel

Debian Release: lenny/sid
  500 unstable        www.debian-multimedia.org 
  500 unstable        ftp.it.debian.org 
  500 testing         security.debian.org 

--- Package information. ---
Depends             (Version) | Installed
=============================-+-=============
cdebootstrap     (>= 0.3.15)  | 0.4.3
 OR debootstrap  (>= 0.3.3.2) | 1.0.0


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Enrico Tassi