Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> (08/02/2010):
> I have given your image (it used console-setup) a quick try earlier
> today and was very impressed. I noticed a few minor issues [1], but
> in general it worked perfectly.
I'm glad it doesn't only work at home. :)
I've managed to resurrect an old box, and I rebuilt all packages for
i386. To this effect, I've put up a reprepro-based repository to store
both source packages and i386 binaries (both .debs and .udebs), in
case somebody wants to build an own image; that's probably a more
convenient way of getting the sources as well.
You can find the pool at:
http://people.debian.org/~kibi/udebs-v1/
(Which should be signed with my key, although I've only performed
localudebs-based image builds.)
Some packages got a quick and dirty version bumps due to:
1. the fact I'm building against sid (I wanted to use the latest
source packages, instead of starting by lagging behind using
testing's).
2. the fact that some packages got uploaded (namely: vte, xrandr) to
sid in the meanwhile
so changelogs and versions might not exactly match the ones one would
get from applying the patches I mentioned previously.
In order to rebuild everything, I've used the following order (there
are 33 of them, although some like libdrm are no longer needed):
libfontenc
libxfont
libgpg-error
libgcrypt11
libpciaccess
libxau
libxdmcp
libxcb
libx11
libxext
libxfixes
libxrender
libdrm
udev
xorg-server
xserver-xorg-input-evdev
xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
xft
libxinerama
libxi
libxrandr
libxcursor
libxcomposite
libxdamage
libxkbfile
x11-xkb-utils
xkeyboard-config
cairo
pango1.0
gtk+2.0
gtk2-engines
dmz-cursor-theme
vte
so if you want to rebuild them for another architecture, a bit of
shell scripting, reprepro and sbuild are your friends. I didn't go as
far as setting buildd/wanna-build, but you may want to do so. :)
As for the resulting image, it seems to work like a charm on my Athlon
XP1800+ box/256MB RAM box. I've booted it through PXE (using dnsmasq's
embedded TFTP server, with its default /srv/tftp pointing to
dest/netboot/gtk). I only got lost during the manual partionning in
Tamil, so I got back to selecting another language before going on. :)
I think my next moves are going to be:
- Tweaking lowmem case for X (should be easy once I've figured out
how this and that components in d-i work)
- Fixing the build of the fbdev driver to get 2 proper flavours
(should be easy), and maybe having a look at the HACK/TODO bits
I've left along the path in the various git branches/standalone
patches.
- Trying to integrate console-setup properly this time, so that once
one has set it up once in d-i, preferences can be fed directly into
the installed system, so that one doesn't need to answer the very
same questions again. Even though console-setup might chosen in the
end (although it looks like the way to go to tweak X), that's going
to be a good exercise for me. :)
Mraw,
KiBi.
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