Bug#444256: live-helper: Please allow multiple mirrors
Bas Wijnen wrote:
> I'm using live-helper to create filesystems for machines which are hard
> to maintain directly. These are dedicated machines, which only have one
> purpose. What I always need, is a minimal Debian system plus one or two
> extra packages (plus dependencies). For this purpose, I need to give
> live-helper two mirrors; one Debian mirror and one mirror on my machine
> (which isn't really a "mirror", but contains my own packages).
you can include additional sources with
config/chroot_sources/foo.{binary,bootstrap} sniplets; those are
automatically cat'ted at the end of sources.list inside the chroot.
> I've attached a patch which implements this feature. It allows using
> --mirror-{bootstrap,binary} multiple times. It uses array variables to
> accomplish this, and I'm not sure if that may be a bash-only feature.
arrays are not posix, hence we do use arrays not at all.
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