On 2014-09-05 14:07:36 -0500, Kai Harries wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@debian.org> wrote:
>>  # set path to include simple-cdd dirs
>>  simple_cdd_path=""
>> @@ -410,7 +411,7 @@ if [ "true" = "$do_mirror" ] || [ -z "$do_mirror" ] ; 
>> then
>>                  i386|amd64) di_match_files="/cdrom" ;;
>>                  *) di_match_files="." ;;
>>              esac
>> -            checksum_files="$checksum_files 
>> dists/$DI_CODENAME/main/installer-$a/$di_release/images/SHA256SUMS"
>> +            checksum_files="$checksum_files 
>> dists/$DI_CODENAME/main/installer-$a/$di_release/images/${checksum_file_type}"
>>          done
>>      fi
>>      # run mirroring hooks
>>
>
> I have not tested it, but it looks like a good solution.

I committed and pushed a version of the above patch to bzr...


>> I recall debian-cd having poor support for building images other than
>> the running distro, so you may also need to get fixes into debian-cd for
>> that to work... or run your builds in a chroot of compatible
>> distribution.
>>
>> I'm not sure how much energy I want to put into support for oldstable in
>> general; I am not particularly fond of special casing on a
>> per-distribution level.
>
> But then it would be nice if you mention it in the documentation
> (sorry, if I have overseen it)

I'll try to come up with some updates to documentation,
too... suggestions would be most welcome.


> and maybe even add a check that aborts the build with an error message
> if someone tries to create incompatible distributions with it.

It's non-trivial to detect "incompatible distributions", given that the
only symptom is that debian-cd may fail to build.


live well,
  vagrant

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