Re: ArtistX 0.6 question: rewrite wiki and manual
On Monday 06 October 2008 22:05:27 Marco Ghirlanda wrote:
1) if I use the config/chroot file for installing a lot of software
(2000) I will get a xargs error about cp not able to copy because of an
Argument list too long. So I enable the interactive build and apt-get
from inside the chroot.
You should really use a custom package file list, not specify packages like
that!
Write your file list in config/chroot_local-packageslist and enabled it with
--packages-list=your_list_filename lh_config option.
2) One thing it took me a long time to fix is that installing the
motion software will prevent Debian Live from creating the ArtistX
user with GID 1000, since motion is creating exactly the same GID for
its user. What can be done? Ask the motion Debian packager to change the
GID?
Sure, system users should have gids 1000 (useradd -r), so this is a bug of
motion packager IMHO.
Anyway, you could fix this with a hook script that just seds some strings
from /etc/{passwd,group, shadow} and chown that user's $HOME meanwhile.
4) I don't know how to write a script so I'm out of luck for istant NTFS
support, which needs the user ArtistX to be added to the fuse group.
debconf preseeding could be pesky at first times, I know :-)
5) The installer is not working:
Here it works, really :-)
I enable the live installer, but when
I try both Graphical and Text install I get a message after cdrom
detection saying that the kernel modules could not be found, so the
installation cannot continue.
Are you using daily installer? I'm using it since 1 month for sid's builds and
everything work as expected or even better.
That's all guys, hope it's useful infos for Debian Live newbies/not so
advanced users like me :-)
Nobody borns skilled.
I will turn all this into a tutorial, if you wish.
Sure! We lack tutorials as well as good documentation.
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Re: ArtistX 0.6 question: rewrite wiki and manual
Hi all, time to report back! ArtistX 0.6 seems running fine, it was a 3 day attempt but at the end I got it. :-) Here's what I did (I'm preparing the tutorial): A) create graphics customizations: - create a 640x480 splash.png image for the isolinux background, put into config/binary_local-includes/isolinux/data/ - customize the README.html, README.mirrors.html cdrom files and put them into config/binary_local-includes/ - create a 1024x768 background-color.png image for the splashy background, put into config/chroot_local-includes/etc/splashy/themes/moreblue-orbit - create a 1024x768 moreblue-orbit-wallpaper.svg (infact is a jpeg just renamed to .svg), put into config/chroot_local-includes/usr/share/images/desktop-base/ B) create a starting ISO (adding only splashy, splashy themes, kcontrol, konqueror, tango-icons-theme as a start to customize more after): 1) lh_config in an ARTISTX_0.6 directory somewhere on my Desktop 2) change config accordingly to my parameters (I'll try to keep online the config dir, which is the best place on Debian Live website? - or I could upload it on ArtistX website and link there). I change many things, most notably enabling the interactive build for later customizations. 3) lh_build 4) running live I install GNOME and KDE themes, enable the Debian Menu (otherwise many apps wont show in the normal Gnome menu and customize the Desktop (except for the background), copy /home/artistx/ into /tmp , compress it, send it to my building machine and put relevant files (.gnome2, .kde, .config, .local ...) it into config/chroot_local-includes/etc/skel/ C) create the final ISO 1) lh_build 2) when it has finished installing Gnome (gnome-full list) or Kde (kde-full list) it brings me to the prompt where I apt-get install all multimedia software 3) apt-get clean 4) update-menus 5) update-rc.d -f service-name remove to remove unnecessary starting services (like mysql or apache2 brought in by other software) 6) exit to start the building process That's all, few problems: 1) if I use the config/chroot file for installing a lot of software (2000) I will get a xargs error about cp not able to copy because of an Argument list too long. So I enable the interactive build and apt-get from inside the chroot. 2) One thing it took me a long time to fix is that installing the motion software will prevent Debian Live from creating the ArtistX user with GID 1000, since motion is creating exactly the same GID for its user. What can be done? Ask the motion Debian packager to change the GID? 3) For some reason the file used for splashy background and Desktop background seems to default to the MoreBlue-Orbit theme 4) I don't know how to write a script so I'm out of luck for istant NTFS support, which needs the user ArtistX to be added to the fuse group. 5) The installer is not working: I enable the live installer, but when I try both Graphical and Text install I get a message after cdrom detection saying that the kernel modules could not be found, so the installation cannot continue. I think this is something regarding some modules debs name being too long for the ISO standard and being converted to shorter names just before .iso creation (after squash file creation). To whom should I report? That's all guys, hope it's useful infos for Debian Live newbies/not so advanced users like me :-) I will turn all this into a tutorial, if you wish. Ciao all, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ArtistX 0.6 question: rewrite wiki and manual
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:41:19AM +0200, Marco Ghirlanda wrote: Hi All, I'm in the process of building the new ArtistX [...] 1) how to use external apt sources and make sure they will go into the final iso? Need to add only debian-multimedia.org packages. As far as I understand, that's what the settings LH_MIRROR_* in config/bootstrap are for: LH_MIRROR_BOOTSTRAP # to bootstrap the build LH_MIRROR_CHROOT LH_MIRROR_CHROOT_SECURITY # to acutally load the packages during build LH_MIRROR_BINARY LH_MIRROR_BINARY_SECURITY # what the built system refers to (i.e. its # sources.list) Please someone correct me if I'm way off :-) 2) how to add the user artistx to various groups for making effective the installation of software like ntfs3g or other packages that require that the user is added to groups he is not part of. The live user gets added at boot time of the live system (*not* at build time). This surprised me too :-) So to add it to some groups, you'll have to hook into that. Possibly you'll have to (programmatically) modify the adduser script in the target's system initramfs, as in the second recipe in the FAQ: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/FAQ#head-5bb88fb88b407750f2f8ca0c02ca59b18e163bca Looks a bit scary ;-) Maybe some hook script would be nice here? Why is the live user generated so late in the process (i.e. at boot time instead of at build time)? Don't know about your third question. Regards - -- tomás -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFI4J4xBcgs9XrR2kYRAp3dAJ9aAMDDWUMH+Sy/Y6FzWUKhwT8izgCfYaBy OK+2mvIhB5ongmaRzUAeJtE= =eyZf -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ArtistX 0.6 question: rewrite wiki and manual
Thanks everybody for the replies. I didn't understand so much the hook thing. Should I add a script that basically repeats usermod commands but where (which dir)? And when will be run? (I mean at which point of the iso creation or booting?) Groups are really important for many application, is there a simple way of adding my user to a list of groups? Without this I get lots of complains from people about not supporting ntfs and such things. After I sort this out I will to write relevant infos and possibly upload to the documentation or send it to the right person to publish it (Daniel?). Again thanks everybody (especially the developers), Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
