Hey Peter and who it all concerns, Havn't followed or seen the thread you mentioned, but I'd like to give a few notes on where Morphix stands on autobuilding of our modules and livecd's as a whole. Next time, could someone just CC morphix-devel? We welcome all new ideas, help, critique and improvements, especially from Debian and other livecd projects. Sorry if I've CC'ed you in error, but you'll live.
Minimodule-building is/can be automatic. Currently I just take a list of debian packages [1], run a command and the resulting minimodule is ready. I don't have to maintain these, but the process isn't perfect yet (translucency issues mostly, which I'm working on, and the building could be somewhat neater). Check out our lill' minimod-gen script, just keep in mind it's a proof-of-concept. I have been working separatly on a way to both autobuild working minimodules and the ability to integrate these neatly into the dpkg archive/extract the packages from the minimodule again. Think about them as a form of meta-packaging that can be overlaid onto livecds in a matter of seconds. Mainmodule-buidling, basemodule-building will be my/our next step. I did start on a wrapper using debootstrap, there would be different recipies (simplified scripts?) to create different main/base modules. This again would be done using apt-get, but would have to be interactive (debconf et al). On the creation of livecd's on a whole, this would be done for morphix-based livecds using either some scripts like those in bootcd, mklivecd or something similar. However, I'd rather go all the way. I did start work on a GTK2 GUI for piecing modules together called isomorphgui [2], but havn't been hacking on it for a few months. It uses an XML file [3] from a central server, downloads the necessary modules, checks md5sum and in the future would check GPG keys of both the XML file and the modules. The DTD is still in development. Ideally, you would have the option of building the above modules from scratch, or maybe using a second program instead. Isomorphgui should _not_ be used yet, but it too is an interesting proof-of-concept for the personal-livecd future :) Cheers, and if anyone is interested all our code is available via CVS on morphix.org! Alex de Landgraaf [1] http://am.xs4all.nl/morphix/minilist/ [2] http://am.xs4all.nl/gfx/isomorphgui.png [3] http://am.xs4all.nl/morphix/morphinfo.xml Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: <snip bunch of livecd stuff> > As far as I could tell jigdo does not work with filesystems at all at the > moment, it reasembles the iso from chunks of data. As a frontend it would > need a separate tool for local live CD creation. But there are already some! > The ones I found are listed at: http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?LiveCD > > > I just read though this thread[1] at debian-devel about including knoppix > things in debian. Just like you also wrote the general problem of > customizing > the configuration came up too. And for that I'd picture to use CFG[2] > and packaged meta-config definitions. > > Peter > > [1] > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200311/msg01501.html > > [2] > http://freedesktop.org/Main/CFG /------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Alex de Landgraaf | The cure for boredom is curiosity | | Student AI & CS, VU, A'dam | There is no cure for curiosity | | Phone: 06-16844084 | | | GPG: http://am.xs4all.nl/key_alex.asc /'-'\ | | www.alextreme.org & www.morphix.org ( o o ) | \------------------------------------------oOO0--(_)--0OOo---------/
