Re: RFC: Roadmap to Lenny, or announcing Lenny Beta 1 RSN

2008-08-27 Thread Brendan Sleight
Hi Chris, Chris Lamb wrote: 1. I can easily reproduce this with Qemu. Simply waiting about 60 seconds results in the boot menu appearing. I have heard of other workarounds (including setting a high screen resolution) which do not cause the symptoms to appear. This is

Re: Introducing live-xmaker

2008-08-23 Thread Brendan Sleight
Hi Tzafrir, 2008/8/23 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: This will break when you try to use other tools to process your XML data. Works for me with other tools, see below. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/debian-live$ python Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, May 28 2008, 08:35:32) [GCC 4.2.4 (Debian 4.2.4-1)] on linux2 Type

Re: Introducing live-xmaker

2008-08-23 Thread Brendan Sleight
Hi Tzafrir, 2008/8/23 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: This will break when you try to use other tools to process your XML data. Kindly answer to what I actually wrote. He wrote his own XML parser in xml.sh. The XML config you generate in your python script might work with it. Or not. Likewise for

Re: Introducing live-xmaker

2008-08-22 Thread Brendan Sleight
Hi Simon, 2008/8/22 Simon Schiele wrote: a clean live-helperish way (-: function xml.sh, the helper lh_xml (for im- and export) and an example config.xml attached to this mail. The function xml.sh looks nice and is more clean and live-helperish than my attempt with live-xmaker. Particularly

Re: Introducing live-xmaker

2008-08-21 Thread Brendan Sleight
Hi Tzafrir, Thanks for the feedback. For example:- live-xmaker --xml /usr/share/live-xmaker/templates/lightgui_all.xml --output ./lightgui.iso Why the duplicate configration? To give an extra layer - in xml. lh_config generates a bunch of config files. By creating your own

Introducing live-xmaker

2008-08-20 Thread Brendan Sleight
Hi All, I put together a little python script, live-xmaker. [1][2][3]. Live-xmaker is a command line front-end to live-helper, inspired by morphix-mmaker[4][5] (written by Alex de Landgraaf). This allows all the configurations for a liveCD build to be specified in one XML file. For example:-

Fwd: Introducing live-xmaker

2008-08-20 Thread Brendan Sleight
Hi All, (Sorry if this is double post wrong to address) I put together a little python script, live-xmaker. [1][2][3]. Live-xmaker is a command line front-end to live-helper, inspired by morphix-mmaker[4][5] (written by Alex de Landgraaf). This allows all the configurations for a liveCD build to

Re: Heads-up -- some config directory semantics changing

2008-08-18 Thread Brendan Sleight
Hi Chris, Thanks for the heads up. 2008/8/16 Chris Lamb wrote: * config/chroot_local-packageslists Contents of the package lists in this directory are no longer automatically installed - you need to specify them in LH_PACKAGES_LISTS. Will there be an option in lh_config to activate

Re: Autotesting

2008-07-31 Thread Brendan Sleight
Hi Antonio, 2008/7/31 Antonio Amorim wrote: I have used vncrobot http://www.vncrobot.com/ that is open to be used but not open source. It is a shame that vncrobot is closed source as it has some really nice features. The testing of our images is available on (for example):

Autotesting

2008-07-30 Thread Brendan Sleight
Hi List, I been updated (improved?) the Autotesting scripts. As well as testing the pre-build images[1] [2]. I now have set-up some daily auto-building locally on the server and running Autotesting these images[3]. These videos and the final frames (thanks Chris) are produced daily and can be

Re: Autotesting

2008-07-16 Thread Brendan Sleight
Hi All, I have set up a virtual private server with the autotesting scripts [1] specifically for debian-live. 1: http://autotesting.livecd.org/debian-live/ These scripts will test some of the images built on the autobuild server [2][3][4][5]. 2: http://live.debian.net/cdimage/ 3:

Autotesting

2008-07-13 Thread Brendan Sleight
Autotesting scripts are a little broken as vncserver has been removed. Time to use vnc4server and more Russian-dolls of vncservers within vncservers withiin... I am updating/tweaking and plan to have a machine running Autotesting in anger soon. TTFN, Brendan

Re: old images

2008-07-03 Thread Brendan Sleight
2008/7/2 Dean : What happened to the daily/weekly/monthly builds? Nothing updated since April? Awaiting new server. http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-live-devel/2007-September/002136.html HTH, Brendan ___ debian-live-devel mailing list

Re: Default user decisions

2008-04-28 Thread Brendan Sleight
On 27/04/2008, Daniel Baumann wrote: That made me curious what others think. So, what do *you* guys think? There are many advantages in none/default/null/boot-options or colours of bikesheds [1] Should it be left as is? Or do you have other preferences? How do other live systems do it?

Switching to GPL3+.

2007-12-22 Thread Brendan Sleight
Hi All, I am not trolling or trying to create a flame-war. However I did notice this commit:- http://git.debian.org/?p=users/daniel/live-helper.git;a=commitdiff;h=042354c7df657a4d8dc3aab251a5920fbb152cbf I am quite agnostic about GPL2/GPL3+, however I thought I would highlight Daniel's commit.

[Git Pull] Update to AutoTesting

2007-11-17 Thread Brendan Sleight
Hi All, Adding default option to generate an image showing some frames of the autotesting video, for the ultra-lazy who do not want to watch a video. . Examples seen at:- http://www.morphix.org/autobuilds/video/morphix-game-2007-11-17_0018.mod_basemod-2.6.17-2007-11-17_0330.iso.ogg.jpg

live-magic: build errors (git version)

2007-09-19 Thread Brendan Sleight
Subject: live-magic: build errors Package: live-magic Version: 0.3-1 Severity: important Justification: fails to build from source Tags: patch Errors below, possible patch attached. Hope this helps, Brendan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/live-magic$ sudo dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc dpkg-buildpackage:

Re: live-magic - plain iso not xfce

2007-09-11 Thread Brendan Sleight
Hi Again, On 10/09/2007, Brendan Sleight wrote: LIVE_PACKAGES_LISTS=xfce Comparing a ./config/chroot built with live-magic and a ./config/chroot build with lh_config. diff ./config/chroot /home/morph/debian-live/my-builds/config/chroot 40,41c40,41 # (Default: standard) LH_PACKAGES_LISTS

live-magic - plain iso not xfce

2007-09-10 Thread Brendan Sleight
Hi Chris at al, Started playing with live-magic. I tried building a xfce image, nothing fancy, no expert options. # tail -n 2 /tmp/tmpgtQbjjlive-magic/config/chroot # The following option was added by live-magic LIVE_PACKAGES_LISTS=xfce When I booted I just got a plain standard minimal Debian

Re: Toram boot option

2007-08-15 Thread Brendan Sleight
Ok I'll bite. On 15/08/07, Mr Alk3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: either. If the documentation was better with this whole project, I wouldnt be 'bothering' you or causing you 'inconvinience'. Feel free to contribute improvements to the documentation to avoid others getting frustrated in the future.

Re: Image QA

2007-07-02 Thread Brendan Sleight
Hi All, Daniel Baumann wrote: I've been looking into QA for the images I generate with Debian-Live. the third one could be done with qemu as they do with morphix (thanks for asking brendan about the script he uses), which is really, really great. i'm looking forward to setup a machine to