Hi Aitor, Frits

I have a live-build environment setup on devuan alpha 2.

It's pretty much the same as the one I use for my debian builds.

I can't find a Devuan repo that works though.

So until they are setup properly I'm wasting my time.

Cheers

Ozi

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 2:54 AM, aitor_czr <aitor_czr@???> wrote:

> Hi Frits,
>
> I will do some clarifications about debian-installer:
>
> 1.- A wrong name of the distribution in .disks/info may screws up in a
> failure of the installer at the time of mounting /proc in the target. But
> this is not the case.
>
> 2.- Although being OK all the Packages.gz, i.e. the indices in /dists/
> folder of deb and udeb packages located in /pool/ folder, all the udeb
> packages are also included implicitly in the /install/initrd.gz and
> /install/gtk/initrd.gz ram-disk files -they are generated when building
> debian-installer-, and all the md5sums must be the same in both one and
> the other.
>
> 3.- As i said in another thread, there is a bug in live-installer.udeb
> package. This bug was hacked by Philip Newboroug -Corenominal-, but i think
> this is not neither the case. Here you are the changes, lines 63-83 of
> debian/live-installer.postinst:
>
>
> https://gitlab.com/aitor_czr/live-installer/blob/master/debian/live-installer.postinst
>
> I have to say that i don't use live-build for building debian-installer. I
> build d-i manually because i use the kernel of the Free Software Fundation,
> so i have to change all the kernel modules in it. Building d-i manually
> gives me more flexibility.
>
> I hope this will help you somewhat...
>
> Finally, can you upload your configuration of live-build to some cloud? Actually
> i can't help you because debmirror is failing. I supose that Nextime is
> generating the Packages.gz and the Contents.gz of the repository with
> Amprolla. Therefore let us be patience.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Aitor.
>
> On 14/10/15 14:00, Godefridus Daalmans <frits@???>
> <frits@???> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> a short update: Now I added the debian-installer component to my
> experimental live DVD, and I can try to do an installation, but it
> screws up in "installing the base system"
>
> INFO: Menu item 'bootstrap-base' selected
> base-installer: error: exiting on error
> base-installer/debootstrap-failed
> WARNING **: Configuring 'bootstrap-base' failed with error code 1
> WARNING **: Menu item 'bootstrap-base' failed.
>
> on the installation screen, it complained about the checksum of
> debian-installer/Packages.gz and debian-installer/Packages
>
> This seems to be a recurring error over the years with Debian and
> Ubuntu...
>
> I verified the MD5 checksums and they are all OK, so that's not the **real** problem.
>
> Any hints??
>
> Frits
>
>
>
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