Re: Missing --parent-mirror-binary-updates for live-build 4.x?

2015-01-25 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 01/24/15 14:14, Steven Shiau wrote: So is this option no more in live-build 4.x or is the manual wrong? i've removed that some time ago; what's your use case for pulling $dist-updates *not* from the same mirror that contains $dist in the first place? -- Address:Daniel Baumann,

Re: Missing --parent-mirror-binary-updates for live-build 4.x?

2015-01-25 Thread Steven Shiau
On 01/25/2015 05:08 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 01/24/15 14:14, Steven Shiau wrote: So is this option no more in live-build 4.x or is the manual wrong? i've removed that some time ago; what's your use case for pulling $dist-updates *not* from the same mirror that contains $dist in the first

Re: Missing --parent-mirror-binary-updates for live-build 4.x?

2015-01-24 Thread jnqnfe
Yeah, the manuals are very much out of date with respect to the code unfortunately. I have been doing bits of work here and there to update them, the largest single instance of which is covered by bug #774730. I haven't yet thoroughly combed through the set of parameters, but I have provided fixes

Re: Missing --parent-mirror-binary-updates for live-build 4.x?

2015-01-24 Thread Steven Shiau
Hi jnqnfe, Got it. Thanks for your explanation. I believe Daniel has a good reason for that. For the time being, I could use put the repository in config/archives/ so that's not a big problem to me. Thanks. Steven. On 01/25/2015 11:35 AM, jnqnfe wrote: Yes, the basic mirror

Re: Missing --parent-mirror-binary-updates for live-build 4.x?

2015-01-24 Thread Steven Shiau
Thanks for your reply. Since jessie-updates exists, e.g. http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/ Could you please tell me why the flexibility to assign the parent mirror binary updates URL is removed in live-build v4? Does it mean the parent updates URL must use the same repository as that

Re: Missing --parent-mirror-binary-updates for live-build 4.x?

2015-01-24 Thread jnqnfe
Yes, the basic mirror (LB_PARENT_MIRROR_CHROOT / LB_MIRROR_CHROOT / LB_PARENT_MIRROR_BINARY / LB_MIRROR_BINARY, where appropriate) is used also as the updates mirror, with no way to use a different mirror specifically for such updates. As long as LB_UPDATES is set to true, an updates entry will

Missing --parent-mirror-binary-updates for live-build 4.x?

2015-01-24 Thread Steven Shiau
Dear all, In the manual of live-build 4.0.4-1, option --parent-mirror-binary-updates is shown: $ man -P cat lb_config | grep -- --parent-mirror-binary-updates [--parent-mirror-binary-updates URL] --parent-mirror-binary-updates URL However, when I ran lb config with this option,