On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 05:52:03PM +0200, Raphaël Hertzog wrote: > > Currently the CODENAME given is used both to select the distribution to > > download from the mirror and the distribution to create in the local > > mirror. Given that debian-cd will only do its job properly if the CODENAME > > is a well known one, we are forced to use official debian codenames even > > when we are in fact building a derivative distribution. > > > > It would be nice if simple-cdd could be somewhat more intelligent > > in that regard. > > > > I suggest to check that debian-cd/data/$CODENAME, > > debian-cd/tools/$CODENAME and debian-cd/tools/boot/$CODENAME exists and if > > not to create them as symlinks pointing to $debian_cd_rules_like_dist (you > > can find a better name maybe, it's meant to be a new variable that selects > > the Debian distribution whose rules we want to re-use when building the > > CD). > > if that's really all it would take, it probably wouldn't be too hard to > implement in simple-cdd. > > though i would rather see something like this implemented in debian-cd > directly, unless there's a compelling reason not to.
Well, as a debian-cd co-maintainer, I thought about this too, but I didn't like the idea very much. It would mean 2 supplementary variables that should be used instead of $CODENAME or $DI_CODENAME in various places and that should default to $CODENAME $DI_CODENAME. Ccing debian...@lists.debian.org to get the input of Steve (and maybe Frans) but for now I think that simple-cdd is a good place to implement this. I consider the fact that we can put supplementary directories in those places as a relatively official interface of debian-cd. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org