Re: Issues creating live images for testing and sid
Diederik de Haas wrote:
> I'm having issues creating a (working) live image of testing/squeeze and sid.
> When using "-d testing" as parameter to lh_config the subsequent lh_build stage fails at the
> beginning since /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/ doesn't have an entry for testing.
live-helper expects you to use codenames not suite names for distributions.
> But what if I want the sources.list in the image to point to testing (instead of squeeze)? Can I do
> that?
this is a bad idea, why do you want to not use codenames in the first place?
> And the creation of a sid image fails when it tries to configure sysvinit, caused by a missing
> dependency to initscripts (among others) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=546834
> Adding initscripts as an argument to "--packages" does install it, but apparently not 'good enough'
> for configuring sysvinit to succeed.
> Is there a(nother) workaround so I can make a sid image?
use cdebootstrap until debootstrap is able to bootstrap sid again.
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