Bug#584277: live-helper: building net fails for non-nfs root

[Michal Suchanek <michal.suchanek@ruk.cuni.cz>]

Package: live-helper
Version: 2.0~a14-1
Severity: normal


Hello

The live-initramfs should support these net filesystems (or
"filesystems") to boot from:

nfs, cifs, httpfs and wget.

The live-helper (according to man page) supports these net filesystems:

nfs, cfs (yes, without an i)

When building with --net-root-filesystem set to unsupported type the
build fails at the very end.

The live-helper should be able to generate a netboot tarball with
configuration for any kind of filesystem live-initramfs supports so that
the user can just unpack the tarball on the server and point the tftp
and filesystem servers at the appropriate parts of the tarball.

Thanks

Michal



-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages live-helper depends on:
ii  debootstrap                 1.0.10lenny1 Bootstrap a basic Debian system

Versions of packages live-helper recommends:
ii  cpio                          2.9-13     GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii  gettext-base                  0.17-4     GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  gnu-fdisk                     1.2-1      Linux fdisk replacement based on l

Versions of packages live-helper suggests:
ii  dosfstools     3.0.1-1                   utilities for making and checking 
ii  fakeroot       1.11                      Gives a fake root environment
ii  genisoimage    9:1.1.10-1                Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem
ii  grub           0.97-47lenny2             GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy v
ii  memtest86      3.5-2.2                   thorough real-mode memory tester
ii  memtest86+     4.00-2.2                  thorough real-mode memory tester
ii  mtools         3.9.11-1                  Tools for manipulating MSDOS files
ii  parted         1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-11.1 The GNU Parted disk partition resi
ii  squashfs-tools 1:3.3-7                   Tool to create and append to squas
ii  syslinux       2:3.86+dfsg-3             utilities for the syslinux bootloa
pn  uuid-runtime   <none>                    (no description available)
pn  win32-loader   <none>                    (no description available)

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