On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > It seems a bit strange to me to have a derived distribution as CD release > that's not backed up by it's own archive, and thus mirrors. > I'd say that if you want to use different codenames, you should start by > creating an archive that has those codenames.
We have that. > If you have such an archive, it also seems trivial to me to create the > needed configuration files (if you like as symlinks to files/dirs for > Debian codenames) needed for Debian CD. (I'd recommend using git-svn and > creating a branch for the derived distribution.) Well, I don't want to have to maintain a debian-cd fork, I generate images with simple-cdd which in turn uses debian-cd. My feature request is to have simple-cdd create symlinks in the temporary debian-cd directory that it already uses so that the tools/boot/$CODENAME/ scripts that are called actually exist even when $CODENAME is not an official Debian codename. Now, the alternative is to not create the symlinks and have a way to tell debian-cd “well CODENAME is foo, but for boot-enabling scripts, please use those of lenny”. > So, IMO debian-cd already has all the functionality needed to support > derived distributions using different codenames. Or am I missing > something? Yes it has (if you consider normal to have to duplicate the codename specific directories inside it to match your own codename). I think it's a reasonable assumption but still wanted to ask for more opinion. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org