Re: [T(A)ILS-dev] [PATCH] document building from alternate m…

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Author: intrigeri
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To: John Wyzer, The T\(A\)ILS public development discussion list
Subject: Re: [T(A)ILS-dev] [PATCH] document building from alternate mirror
Hi,

John Wyzer wrote (30 Jan 2011 10:00:07 GMT) :
> That's some information that took me some time to gather.
> Feel free to include it as it is or correct it :-)
> No need to mention me in the commit.


Thanks a lot for your contribution. It at least has the merit of
highlighting the drawbacks of our current documentation. I've just
pushed a version of the build documentation that tries to address the
issue you have had. Feedback welcome.

See my comments bellow about your proposed patch.

> +Visit config/chroot_sources and adjust the files found there according to
> +your mirror of choice.


Manually editing such generated configuration files is strongly
recommended against by the Debian Live authors and documentation...
with good reasons. The only supported ways of configuring the build
process are:

- using live-build's config file: /etc/live/build.conf
- using "lb config" in a clean build tree

> +    lb config \


This is far better.

> +    --archive-areas "main contrib non-free" \


Running "lb config" already does this, see auto/config.

> +    --apt-secure false \


This is not the kind of things I'd want to recommend in our official
documentation. IMHO a build environment / local Debian mirror that
requires this setting is badly broken.

> +    --volatile false \


We'll probably need volatile a lot during the Squeeze life cycle.

> +    --security false \


Same as for --apt-secure. Maybe you need a security.debian.org local
mirror as well?

> +    --distribution lenny


This is already done by plain "lb config", see auto/config.

Cheers!
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