FW: Many problems with live-rw partition

2008-08-22 Thread Chris Morley
Il giovedì 21 agosto 2008 21:12:25 Andreas Bombe ha scritto: It is used in the aufs after all, so it doesn't work. My fix for that one was not triggering the remount ro attempt by commenting the try_snap calls in scripts/live since I do not need snapshot files here. I have

Re: Introducing live-xmaker

2008-08-22 Thread Oliver Dippel
Daniel Baumann wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the advantage to having it in an XML file is that it's all in one file. Personally, I just put my config folder in a tarball. live-helper can be used with a single file too, instead of config/*, by specifying the file through

Re: Many problems with live-rw partition

2008-08-22 Thread Marco Amadori
Il venerdì 22 agosto 2008 10:38:30 hai scritto: Il giovedì 21 agosto 2008 21:12:25 Andreas Bombe ha scritto: It is used in the aufs after all, so it doesn't work. My fix for that one was not triggering the remount ro attempt by commenting the try_snap calls in scripts/live since

RE: Many problems with live-rw partition

2008-08-22 Thread Chris Morley
I have problems building a USB-HDD image with debian live (from Etch) on the init live ramfs scripts it complains it cannot mount /live/cow, and on shutdown it throws an error saying /live/cow in use. I did follow the instructions bus assumed it was just me... perhaps someone else could

Re: BUG: mount with warning in lenny caused by PATH after root-mount

2008-08-22 Thread Peter Holik
Il mercoledì 20 agosto 2008 13:28:03 Peter Holik ha scritto: With lenny i got a warning for mount -o move /cow ${rootmnt}/live/cow mount: you must specify the filesystem type but with mount --move /cow ${rootmnt}/live/cow i got no warning This is because

Re: Many problems with live-rw partition

2008-08-22 Thread Marco Amadori
Il venerdì 22 agosto 2008 11:00:08 Chris Morley ha scritto: I have problems building a USB-HDD image with debian live (from Etch) on the init live ramfs scripts it complains it cannot mount /live/cow, and on shutdown it throws an error saying /live/cow in use. I did follow the

RE: Many problems with live-rw partition

2008-08-22 Thread Chris Morley
Hi Marco, sorry i just checked, i built a Lenny image from Lenny itself. lh_build version is 1.0~a48, i have just noticed there is a new build as of 20th august on Debian Live debian-snapshots, it wasnt that build i had installed as this was about 3 weeks ago now since i last tried

Re: Introducing live-xmaker

2008-08-22 Thread Simon Schiele
But you can't use Hook-Files in a Single LH_CONFFILE, and thats what i need! hook files can be arbitrary binaries. There are ways to encode them inside XLM, but why bother? Just add them as separate files. Likewise the contents of the local include directory. In my daily life with

Re: Introducing live-xmaker

2008-08-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 07:57:59PM +0200, Simon Schiele wrote: But you can't use Hook-Files in a Single LH_CONFFILE, and thats what i need! hook files can be arbitrary binaries. There are ways to encode them inside XLM, but why bother? Just add them as separate files. Likewise the

Re: Many problems with live-rw partition

2008-08-22 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:16:46PM +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: Il giovedì 21 agosto 2008 21:12:25 Andreas Bombe ha scritto: I haven't yet followed the flow in the live scripts, but my idea would be to note the existence of live-rw without immediately using it. Make it part of the root

Re: Keeping boot/* out of filesystem.squashfs

2008-08-22 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 03:04:50PM -0400, Juergen Fiedler wrote: I am using the latest live-helper on sid (1.0~a48+20080820.111738). How can I avoid having boot/* in my filesystem.squashfs without having to set my LH_PACKAGES_LISTS to stripped or minimal? You can always put a script in

Re: Introducing live-xmaker

2008-08-22 Thread Simon Schiele
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: [...] tar czf debian_live_config_in_a_single_file.tar.gz config/ utils/ utils/ is a subdirectory with my little scripts. What extra meta data is there that can not be expressed using some other variables in config/common or config/your_own_file ? I can also store them

Re: Keeping boot/* out of filesystem.squashfs

2008-08-22 Thread Chris Lamb
Andreas Bombe wrote: You can always put a script in config/chroot_local-hooks that will be run inside the chroot. Just rm'ing the files you don't want should do the trick. This won't work, as the binary stage will fail to find the kernels to add to your binary image (as you just deleted

Re: Introducing live-xmaker

2008-08-22 Thread Brendan Sleight
Hi Simon, 2008/8/22 Simon Schiele wrote: a clean live-helperish way (-: function xml.sh, the helper lh_xml (for im- and export) and an example config.xml attached to this mail. The function xml.sh looks nice and is more clean and live-helperish than my attempt with live-xmaker. Particularly