Le Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 09:19:41PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog écrivait:
Well, yes you can. The command line options are a subset of what you can
do with a configuration file. I recommend making a basic config file if
you need to invoke any of the special magic, like selective deb
processing
Le Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 12:38:20AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait:
Well, I wonder how to use ExtraOverride with apt-ftparchive packages.
I can't use apt-ftparchive generate for my needs.
Well, yes you can. The command line options are a subset of what you can
do with a configuration
Le Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 05:10:53PM +0100, James Troup écrivait:
Because a) it doesn't suck, unlike dpkg-scanpackages and b) because it
supports things like the new task overrides out of the box ?
Well, I wonder how to use ExtraOverride with apt-ftparchive packages.
I can't use apt-ftparchive
Le Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 09:54:06AM +0200, Martin Schulze écrivait:
debian-cd does nothing else than using dpkg-scanpackages ... so this one
needs to be fixed, not debian-cd.
[...]
What is the Task: override ? I know that packages have a Task: field but
is there an override file like
Le Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 04:47:25PM +0100, James Troup écrivait:
debian-cd does nothing else than using dpkg-scanpackages ...
And there's the bug. Use apt-ftparchive.
Would you be so kind and explain me why ? I can use apt-ftparchive but it
will change absolutely nothing if it doesn't use
Le Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 05:10:53PM +0100, James Troup écrivait:
And I use dpkg-scanpackage for the support of this old dpkg-multicd
dselect method ...
Do we really want to support that nowadays ?
What do other people think about that ?
I'd also be happy if we could drop that because :
-
Le Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 12:12:15PM -0400, Joey Hess écrivait:
Package: debian-cd
Version: 2.2.8
Anthony Towns wrote:
Actually debian-cd probably makes its own packages files and doesn't include
the Task: overrides at all.
That's badly broken then.
Debian-cd people: Until debian-cd
Le Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 06:40:55PM -0700, Bruce Park écrivait:
I was just wandering, is the first cd the ONLY cd that
you can boot from?
No, you can also boot from CD 2 3. They have different kernel
supporting other hardware. Read the documentation available
on the CDs to know which
Le Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 01:25:26AM -0300, Carlos Barros écrivait:
This is the boot-i386 that I change to set the *.txt and font.psf of
the rescue.bin image right before the inclusion in the CD.
The file is debian-cd/tools/woody/boot-i386
Hope you like it.
Unfortunately no, I don't
Le Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:32:33AM +1000, Anthony Towns écrivait:
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 03:05:02PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
sounds like an excellent reason debootstrap should NOT include
non-free in the list of Packages files it requires.
Ethan, take a pill already. You don't have
Le Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:35:52AM +0200, Michele Dalla Silvestra écrivait:
I'm downloading the woody iso from ftp.fsn.hu, but I've seen that there are
non-free packages in all cdroms.
Why this? I'm using and promoting Debian because it haven't software
non-free and I can better control the
Le Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 01:34:21PM -0400, Joey Hess écrivait:
Hmm. It's been a while, but I thought that debian-cd might use apt
internally, setting it up to put state files and stuff in a temporary
directory. If it already does this it should be simple enough to run the
regenerate command
Le Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 07:03:56PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo écrivait:
I think split floppy images of base make the most sense. It seems
that we all agree on this point.
Split floppy 1.44k images of base would cover the case where someone
wants to install on a machine that has only floppy and
Le Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:34:31PM +0200, Richard Atterer écrivait:
IIRC, the secured stuff was turned off because the *old* (potato) apt
couldn't handle it - correct? (The flamewar at the time covered a wide
range of topics, I may have missed something...;-) But people should
be able to
Le Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:40:04AM -0400, Justin F. Knotzke écrivait:
So I ran the above apt-ftparchive:
$ apt-ftparchive packages dists/stable/local/
dists/stable/local/binary-386/Packages
Of course, i was wrong.
Use of uninitialized value at
Le Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 01:54:12PM -0400, Justin F. Knotzke écrivait:
I never seem to get a second CD.
Then you probably don't use COMPLETE=1 because otherwise you'd get a
second CD. That probably also means that your local packages are not
listed in the tasks (or the default task) and
Le Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 03:43:36PM -0400, Justin F. Knotzke écrivait:
make status
make bootable (which BTW always returns this error:)
mkdir: cannot create directory
`/mirror/tmp/potato-i386/CD1/doc/FAQ/html': File exists
tar (child):
Le Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 04:37:23PM -0400, Justin F. Knotzke écrivait:
I want to be able to add a series of packages to my Debian CD and
have them show up in the Advanced option (using dselect).
Right now, I have: dists/stable/local/binary-386/admin/
In this directory are
Le Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:50:10AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait:
* The inclusion of the secured tree is now controlled by the
SECURED environment variable. It is *disabled* by default
(thanks to jgg who doesn't want to correct apt even if he
proposed the current scheme)
So people,
Le Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 04:19:31AM +0300, Eray Ozkural écrivait:
So, it's possible. What do you think people, would the scripts from that
magazine be a good place to start?
If DVD can work like CD with ISO image and ElTorito for bootable stuff,
then there's nothing to change. Just use
Le Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 07:49:56PM +0200, Attila Nagy écrivait:
does scanpackages produce empty (without the md5sums and filenames)
Release files for the other people too?
Yes, but the other people don't remove stuff from the Makefile,
in particular they leave the secured stuff which apart
Le Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 10:36:15PM +0200, Attila Nagy écrivait:
Just put again the secured stuff in the Makefile. If you really wanna
get rid off the secured tree, remove it manually before launching make
images (ie run manually make bootable and make upgrade before and just
after remove
Le Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:30:31PM +0200, Attila Nagy écrivait:
user.info dbootstrap[138]: running '/usr/sbin/debootstrap --boot-floppies
woody /target file:/instmnt'
user.err dbootstrap[138]: Couldn't download adduser
That's all. At this point it dies, I don't know how it could be
Le Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:24:27AM +0200, Attila Nagy écrivait:
AFAIK, I made the test with 2.3.4 and the latest debian-cd at that time,
so I will test again...
The production is an uninstallable (from the menu at least) CD set...
What is exactly your problem ?
Finding the adduser
Le Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 03:47:16PM -0800, Ethan Benson écrivait:
the woody one is unimplemented right now, the only part of the potato
version that i might need changing is the yaboot binary extraction.
currently it looks for a deb under binary-powerpc/base/yaboot*.deb
will this be affected
Le Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:10:43AM -0400, Justin F. Knotzke écrivait:
merckx:~$ cvs login
(Logging in to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
CVS password:
cvs [login aborted]: recv() from server cvs.debian.org: Connection reset
by peer
Any ideas why this might be?
Does it happen always when you try
Le Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 03:59:54AM -0800, Ethan Benson écrivait:
actually i think this won't work, because a variable inside mkiso_opts
won't get expanded...
Expand it before ? There's a single n.mkisofs_opts file per image ...
is there any way the boot-* script can know what the master
Le Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 02:25:53PM -0800, Ethan Benson écrivait:
-hfs-bless CD$n (litterally) to the n.mkisofs_opts file. i don't
think that the $n part will get expanded though in hindsight.. (i
can't test this because i can't make a full mirror).
It will, I don't see why it wouldn't get
Le Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 01:26:25AM -0800, Ethan Benson écrivait:
Also I am not yet very familier with the CD building scripts, but i
was wondering if they have switched over from using mkhybrid to
mkisofs for building the first CD image for powermacs? i have just
tested this and it will
Le Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 03:14:36AM +0200, Felix von Delius écrivait:
Package: debian-cd
Version: 2.2.4
When I build an CD set for woody (using
TASK=task/popularity-contest-woody), the package 'nano' is not on CD1
(but on CD2). This seems to prevent installation from scratch.
Can you
Le Tue, May 29, 2001 at 08:07:46PM +0200, MPfeifer écrivait:
when i run ./anonftpsync it says: ./anonftpsync: lockfile: command not found
can someone help me out?
$ dpkg -S lockfile
[...]
procmail: /usr/bin/lockfile
Install the procmail package.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog -+-
Le Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:00:21AM +0200, Michael Bramer écrivait:
This is Debian and one quality is: you can update Debian very nice
And with this hack, you throw away this quality!
there is only one solution:
throw away this new rubbish debian-secure !
Shut up. That's the only
Le Tue, May 15, 2001 at 01:23:53AM +0200, Nikki Claus écrivait:
please excuse me for dropping in like this. i am reading some debian
groups via web since i installed debian over my suse (debian rulez
:) this is my first post.
I don't wanna flame you. But still, there's nothing worst than
Le Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:30:32PM +0200, Rene COULET écrivait:
Bonjour,
Hi,
this is a english speaking mailing list, please post in english
or respond privately to me if you want to continue in french.
C'est en effet pour moi qui n'ai qu'une petite connexion par modem, de
mettre à jour ma
Le Wed, May 09, 2001 at 03:55:17PM +0100, Wookey écrivait:
This is not good. Is it really not going to be possible to have one version
sof debian-cd that can make both potato or woody CDs depening on some config
option?
Yes you can, but they won't be official CDs since your potato CDs built
Le Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:52:54PM +0200, J.A. Bezemer écrivait:
partially tested changes that have more effects than you seem to see. People
expect debian-cd-latest-CVS to produce correct and usable CDs for any Debian
version and any architecture. Well, nothing of that seems to be true at the
Hi people,
I just committed some changes. I think those are the last before I upload
the package. I added the .aptignr file and the files.list.gz file that Jason
Gunthorpe requested to accept the woody-secured tree.
Unless someone finds a big bug in the package or unless I fucked up
something,
Le Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 11:39:18AM +1000, Renai LeMay écrivait:
Another admin sent me this email today - what I want to know is, is this
possible? Can someone point me to a URL that would help me with setting a
situation like this up? Or a URL which details making customised debian CD's?
Le Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:43:58AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait:
Branch-off (well, I hope branching succeeds ;-) for potato without the
authentication stuff that was intended for woody only.
There's one thing that I don't understand. Not all files have your off22r3
tag. Only the files
Le Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:19:52AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog écrivait:
I just committed some changes. I think those are the last before I upload
Ouch. Sorry, several mails I wrote long ago have just been sent. They have
been waiting in my mail queue ... I have already uploaded the debian-cd
Le Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 08:04:29PM +0200, Attila Nagy écrivait:
Hello,
Hi,
So with the addition of the .aptignr file the generated CDs will be
compatible with apt-cdrom?
No, not yet. It's up to the apt team to do the necessary changes now.
After the introduction of the woody-secured tree
Le Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 09:24:50AM +0200, Laurent LEVIER écrivait:
Ok, so for guys waiting for ISO images, it would be great to have a
simple script to create them.
How what a good idea !! It's called debian-cd. :) However when you build
the CDs yourself you're not providing official debian
Le Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 08:15:49PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait:
It will add them both and it becomes trivial for someone to defeat the
security mechanisms.
Why ?
What do you mean 'Why?' Put the bad files in the insecure space and
let-er-rip.
I can't understand that. apt know
Le Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 12:18:26AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait:
1) Make the empty file dists/woody/aptignr
- This tells apt-cdrom that the CD is foobar'd below this directory
and it should just ignore it.
Does this feature already exist ? If not, please consider calling it
Le Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 12:27:19AM +1000, Anthony Towns écrivait:
Instead of changing the name of the Packages file, how about we try something
completely different?
dists/ woody-secured/
[...]
That should be pretty easy to do right now, and shouldn't cause any
problems to anyone,
Le Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 02:05:35PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait:
How exactly do you propose that apt-cdrom determine that these two random
trees of stuff are actually the same tree of stuff? Current apt-cdrom will
not properly handle CD's made like this, so you've broke that.
Explain us
Hi people,
I commited today some changes to debian-cd wrt the latest bug
about Packages and Release(.gpg) files. I haven't tested it much (only manty
helped me debug it this night), and I'd welcome other results to be sure
it's ok.
I also made a change to work with the latest boot floppies
Le Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 10:42:33PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait:
It works because you got lucky, you had a CD that was fortunately
constructed properly. It is not supported, and if it does not work, I
totally don't care.
Of course, the CDs are constructed properly ! I'm in charge of
Le Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:23:41PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait:
Because no matter what you do your CD will be invalid in some form, and
using a verbatim Packages file is the least pain.
That's the first time I see Debian willing to accept "invalid" CDs instead
of designing cleanly the
Le Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 03:20:07PM +1000, Anthony Towns écrivait:
debootstrap uses the Release file to work out what Packages files and such
to download
Many of the files listed in the Release file simply don't exist on all
CDs.
(and was going to use the md5sums in it to ensure the Packages
Le Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 02:20:49AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait:
I think the best suggestion was to have a Packages.cd which could be used
Packages.cd files exists but exists only for dpkg-multicd which is a
dselect method. And it's quite ugly since those files lists all the
packages
Le Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 07:51:45PM +0200, MPfeifer écrivait:
OK thanks, but how the hell is this tool been used? there is no "man
debian-cd" or even "debian-cd"-binary executable. could you please point
me to some direction?
Yep.
$ cd /usr/share/debian-cd/
$ less README
Cheers,
--
Raphaël
[ Continued on debian-cd since Wichert asked that ]
Le Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:47:07PM +0200, Otto Wyss écrivait:
I'm not happy with the structure of the current Debian mirror.
Especially I'm not happy if anyone burns the current structure on a
Woody CD set. So I've written 2 Perl scripts
Le Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 11:15:34AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo écrivait:
If you all on the debian-cd list could prioritize the issues which are
preventing debootstrap from working (the one I know about is the
dists/woody/Release file) that would be great. Right now I can't do
testing using woody
Le Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 12:54:32PM +0100, J.A. Bezemer crivait:
This files are all in binary-all, but as I had changed before binary-all to
binary-i386 to make the names absolutelly similar, that's why they are shown
as if they were on binary-i386.
This is so strange... There are quite
Le Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 11:45:06AM +0100, Santiago Garcia Mantinan crivait:
I'm not saying this is Raphael's fault either, not the fault of anybody, but
the fact is that our debian-cd scripts still don't work too well with the
new ftp structures, I have said this before on the list, in fact
Hi,
I just wanted to commit some changes to the debian-cd tree and I can't :
$ echo $CVSROOT
:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/debian-boot
$ echo $CVS_RSH
ssh
$ cvs commit
cvs commit: Examining .
cvs commit: Examining data
[...]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
Cannot open /tmp/#cvs.lastdir.24265,
Le Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:28:49AM -0400, Daniel Burrows écrivait:
I built a 4-cd bootable set with SIZELIMIT set to 6, and the first 3
CDs came out to nearly 8 bytes.
I can't imagine why you're getting that. Does anyone else have an idea ?
documentation (README) :
$
reassign 68477 apt
severity 68477 wishlist
thanks
Le Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 01:19:08PM +0200, Santiago Vila écrivait:
[ The probleme explained here is that stable, frozen and unstable points
to the same directory on an Official CD. The only user visible problem it
could generate is when a user
Le Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 01:17:24PM +0200, J.A. Bezemer écrivait:
Oh dear. I see a terrible thing there that I'd classify as a beginners error.
There are no quotes. Not around $DEBVERSION, but that was (until now) no big
problem. $dir isn't quoted. And $dir can be anything, even
"something ;
Hello,
i'd like to have some input about this bug report. Should I do that or
should I reassign the bug to apt because it chooses unstable before stable
when all 3 links are available ?
Keep in mind that I want to be able to generate CDs for stable, frozen and
unstable.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël
Hi,
I've commited some patches and fixes. I hope they work since I couldn't
test and I uploaded the latest version to frozen... if somebody could test
it today before the dinstall run to let me know if all is ok I would
appreciate it ...
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog -+-
Le Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 09:02:53PM -0700, Joey Hess écrivait:
I need to make a debian cd that has some locally built packages on it.
It If use $MIRROR/dists/$CODENAME/local/binary-$ARCH/section like the
debian-cd docs tell me to, will the local packages be in the Packages
files and
Le Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 12:59:27PM -0400, Huneycutt, Doug écrivait:
don't include my package. I've tried it under frozen/local/binary-i386/,
frozen/local/binary-i386/admin, frozen/local/binary-all/admin, just about
everywhere I can think of. And I've generated Packages and Packages.gz
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