RFC: pimp my live-helpers

[hramrach at centrum.cz (Michal Suchanek)]

On 26/03/2008, Daniel Baumann <daniel at debian.org> wrote:
> chymian wrote:
>  > hi list,
>
...
>
>   * non-chrooted builds - for a clean system, the host system and the
>     live system must be of the same distribution (e.g. stable and
>     stable, or testing and testing etc).
>
>  with non-chrooted builds, the tools (genisomage, mksquashfs etc) are
>  directly used from the host system. this is faster than using aufs
>  (there's nothing to be done at all). if you run live-helper in a chroot
>  itself just as you build normal debian packages, it's easy to keep the
>  host system (inside the chroot) clean and in sync (i'm always using this
>  method to do my testbuilds).

It would be perhaps helpful to put a hint how to make this work rather
than "never set this option" in to the generated config file ;-)

As I would not use these tools for anything else I would be perfectly
happy if mkisofs, mksquash, etc. was installed on the host system.

Thanks

Michal