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From: Alex de L. <al...@de...> - 2006-12-07 07:15:40
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brendan M. Sleight wrote: > I wrote morphix-rebrand based on the morphix veriosn of gfxboot > http://www.morphix.org/debian/binaries/gfxboot_2.4-1_i386.deb Where as > Darren is using a newer ubuntu version 3.2.23-2ubuntu1 > > If the morphix verison of gfxboot is installed morphix-rebrand works ok. If all else fails, we could rename the package morphix-gfxboot (and the binaries). gfxboot is still somewhat voodoo to me, but I haven't been following it. Perhaps the new version has some new groovy features. Alex -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFd7+TQeuQA5TF/UsRAptMAJ9OAwRK92TqmvdcMzCtvgtUCvepcQCfd07m IZoUU5RVhEcsoPjz+K3gzeY= =maBG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
From: Brendan M. S. <me...@ba...> - 2006-12-06 23:25:42
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Hi Darren, In case other users are following this, it was discussed in irc channel this evening. I wrote morphix-rebrand based on the morphix veriosn of gfxboot http://www.morphix.org/debian/binaries/gfxboot_2.4-1_i386.deb Where as Darren is using a newer ubuntu version 3.2.23-2ubuntu1 If the morphix verison of gfxboot is installed morphix-rebrand works ok. I will put it on the to do list to figure out how to make morphix-rebreand work with a higher version of gfxboot. Cheers Brendan |
From: Darren D. <da...@da...> - 2006-12-06 22:27:53
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On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 08:59:01PM +0000, Brendan M. Sleight wrote: > http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/morphix/trunk/morph-scripts/morphix-reb= rand.sh?view=3Dmarkup > Have you run the commands on line 148 and 149. The only time I got > errors was when trying to change this file. no, I ignored them and just did manually what the script would have done (without hiding the output of course) > What happened to the original ./po/text.inc ? > Make should do nothing in the directory. it exists, with the same timestamp as the others... # ls -al po/text* -rw-r--r-- 1 root darren 904 2006-12-06 03:00 po/text.inc -rw-r--r-- 1 root darren 1201 2006-12-06 03:00 po/texts.cs -rw-r--r-- 1 root darren 1301 2006-12-06 03:00 po/texts.de -rw-r--r-- 1 root darren 1137 2006-12-06 03:00 po/texts.en -rw-r--r-- 1 root darren 1431 2006-12-06 03:00 po/texts.es -rw-r--r-- 1 root darren 1419 2006-12-06 03:00 po/texts.fr -rw-r--r-- 1 root darren 1479 2006-12-06 03:00 po/texts.hu -rw-r--r-- 1 root darren 1353 2006-12-06 03:00 po/texts.it -rw-r--r-- 1 root darren 1642 2006-12-06 03:00 po/texts.ja -rw-r--r-- 1 root darren 1232 2006-12-06 03:00 po/texts.nl -rw-r--r-- 1 root darren 1336 2006-12-06 03:00 po/texts.ro -rw-r--r-- 1 root darren 2322 2006-12-06 03:00 po/texts.ru -rw-r--r-- 1 root darren 1300 2006-12-06 03:00 po/texts.sk -rw-r--r-- 1 root darren 1312 2006-12-06 03:00 po/texts.sl -rw-r--r-- 1 root darren 1210 2006-12-06 03:00 po/texts.sv > Any the default lang been changed ? actually no, but it needs to be. This is a recently installed xubuntu box and the lang is still set to US.. # echo $LANG en_US.UTF-8 > Which base.iso are you using ? 0.5-pre5 > What command you are using for run morphix-rebrand ? originally I ran: # morphix-rebrand ./scratch.iso ./advance.iso ./advance.png > Is grub and gfxboot install ? # aptitude remove grub gfxboot -Vs =2E.. The following packages are BROKEN: morphix-rebrand [0.2-32]=20 The following packages will be REMOVED: gfxboot [3.2.23-2ubuntu1] grub [0.97-11ubuntu14]=20 =2E.. > Regards, > Brendan Cheers, Darren. --=20 Darren Davison Public Key: 0xE855B3EA |
From: Brendan M. S. <me...@ba...> - 2006-12-06 20:59:14
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Hi Darren, On 12/6/06, Darren Davison wrote: > > When running the command on line 150 of the script: > cd $TMP_DIR/gfxboot-grub-0.1/ && make http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/morphix/trunk/morph-scripts/morphix-rebrand.sh?view=markup Have you run the commands on line 148 and 149. The only time I got errors was when trying to change this file. > `/home/darren/projects/morphix/sandbox/grub-theme/gfxboot-grub-0.1/po' > bin/po2txt bootloader.pot >texts.en > bin/po2txt cs.po >texts.cs > bin/po2txt de.po >texts.de > bin/po2txt es.po >texts.es > bin/po2txt fr.po >texts.fr > bin/po2txt hu.po >texts.hu > bin/po2txt it.po >texts.it > bin/po2txt ja.po >texts.ja > bin/po2txt nl.po >texts.nl > bin/po2txt ro.po >texts.ro > bin/po2txt ru.po >texts.ru > bin/po2txt sk.po >texts.sk > bin/po2txt sl.po >texts.sl > bin/po2txt sv.po >texts.sv > make[1]: Leaving directory What happened to the original ./po/text.inc ? Make should do nothing in the directory. > "profile" never referenced > "startup" never referenced > "help" never referenced > "keytable" never referenced > "e_splash" never defined > "e_dma" never defined > *** inconsistencies detected *** Don't worry about the above. > mkbootmsg -O -v -L ../.. -l boot/log -c boot.config boot/init > Including "system.inc" > Including "common.inc" > Including "theme_colors.inc" > Including "po/text.inc" > Including "window.inc" > Including "button.inc" > Including "help.inc" > Including "main.inc" > Including "xmenu.inc" > Including "dia_video.inc" > Including "dia_splash.inc" > Including "dia_lang.inc" > Including "dia_dud.inc" > Including "dia_help.inc" > Including "dia_profile.inc" > Including "dia_install.inc" > Including "panel.inc" > Including "keytables.inc" > Including "keymap.cs.inc" > Including "keymap.es.inc" > Including "keymap.fr.inc" > Including "keymap.de.inc" > Including "keymap.it.inc" > Including "keymap.ja.inc" > Including "keymap.hu.inc" > Including "keymap.ru.inc" > Including "keymap.sk.inc" > Including "keymap.sl.inc" > Including "keymap.sv.inc" > Including "locale.inc" > Undefined words: bootloader, usernote, getinfo, bootdrive, findmode, > xsavescreen, updatedisk > make: *** [bootdir] Error 10 Any the default lang been changed ? > so I think the "message" file is never generated and the original simply > gets copied to my boot/grub directory instead. Yes Which base.iso are you using ? What command you are using for run morphix-rebrand ? Is grub and gfxboot install ? Sorry for all the questions, but I spent over an hour on this can not get it to fail, but my Makefile skills are non-existent Regards, Brendan |
From: Darren D. <da...@da...> - 2006-12-06 10:00:15
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On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:56:42AM +0000, Brendan M. Sleight wrote: > I have a look tonight, as morphix-rebreand was written by me. My > Swahili/Makefile usage is not too good do I might ask in irc for some > help debugging. thanks for the quick response. I'll be around at some point tonight and sitting in #morphix. Didn't mean *your* makefile was like swahili to me, I meant *all* of them a= re :) Catch you later. --=20 Darren Davison Public Key: 0xE855B3EA |
From: Brendan M. S. <me...@ba...> - 2006-12-06 09:56:45
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Hi Darren, On 12/6/06, Darren Davison wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to use the morphix-rebrand script, which seems to work in most > respects but doesn't change the bootsplash theme (remains with the Morphix > logo). > Since Makefile's make about as much sense to me as Swahili, I'm now stuck :( > Can someone advise? I have a look tonight, as morphix-rebreand was written by me. My Swahili/Makefile usage is not too good do I might ask in irc for some help debugging. Regards, Brendan |
From: Darren D. <da...@da...> - 2006-12-06 09:46:47
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Hi, I'm trying to use the morphix-rebrand script, which seems to work in most respects but doesn't change the bootsplash theme (remains with the Morphix logo). On further investigation (following the commands in the bootsplash() method of the script manually) I found that everything up to the make command works OK. ie the background.pcx file that is generated looks as expected with my own logo. When running the command on line 150 of the script: cd $TMP_DIR/gfxboot-grub-0.1/ && make I get the following output.. root@hepburn:/home/darren/projects/morphix/sandbox/grub-theme/gfxboot-grub-= 0.1# make make -C po make[1]: Entering directory `/home/darren/projects/morphix/sandbox/grub-theme/gfxboot-grub-0.1/po' bin/po2txt bootloader.pot >texts.en bin/po2txt cs.po >texts.cs bin/po2txt de.po >texts.de bin/po2txt es.po >texts.es bin/po2txt fr.po >texts.fr bin/po2txt hu.po >texts.hu bin/po2txt it.po >texts.it bin/po2txt ja.po >texts.ja bin/po2txt nl.po >texts.nl bin/po2txt ro.po >texts.ro bin/po2txt ru.po >texts.ru bin/po2txt sk.po >texts.sk bin/po2txt sl.po >texts.sl bin/po2txt sv.po >texts.sv make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/darren/projects/morphix/sandbox/grub-theme/gfxboot-grub-0.1/po' mkdir -p boot help2txt help-boot.en.html >boot/help.en "profile" never referenced "startup" never referenced "help" never referenced "keytable" never referenced "e_splash" never defined "e_dma" never defined *** inconsistencies detected *** mkbootmsg -O -v -L ../.. -l boot/log -c boot.config boot/init Including "system.inc" Including "common.inc" Including "theme_colors.inc" Including "po/text.inc" Including "window.inc" Including "button.inc" Including "help.inc" Including "main.inc" Including "xmenu.inc" Including "dia_video.inc" Including "dia_splash.inc" Including "dia_lang.inc" Including "dia_dud.inc" Including "dia_help.inc" Including "dia_profile.inc" Including "dia_install.inc" Including "panel.inc" Including "keytables.inc" Including "keymap.cs.inc" Including "keymap.es.inc" Including "keymap.fr.inc" Including "keymap.de.inc" Including "keymap.it.inc" Including "keymap.ja.inc" Including "keymap.hu.inc" Including "keymap.ru.inc" Including "keymap.sk.inc" Including "keymap.sl.inc" Including "keymap.sv.inc" Including "locale.inc" Undefined words: bootloader, usernote, getinfo, bootdrive, findmode, xsavescreen, updatedisk make: *** [bootdir] Error 10 so I think the "message" file is never generated and the original simply gets copied to my boot/grub directory instead. Since Makefile's make about as much sense to me as Swahili, I'm now stuck :( Can someone advise? Cheers, --=20 Darren Davison Public Key: 0xE855B3EA |
From: Brendan M. S. <me...@ba...> - 2006-09-04 22:54:46
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Its is here! See www.morphix.org The following have been released:- * MorphingMorphix 0.3 * MorphixLiveKiosk 0.01 More SVN commits, releases and surprises are expected through out the day. Enjoy! |
From: Alex de L. <al...@de...> - 2006-08-29 22:01:51
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sascha Wilde wrote: > where does the automagical configuration of X11 take place (and is it > still the same as in Knoppix, if yes, which Version)? > > The Reason I'm asking is, that I got a report that a Test Version of > our Morphix based Live CD I'm working on shows a much to low > Resolution on a Dell L400 Labtop (uses 640 x 480, but the Labtop > should be capable of 1024 x 768). See hwdata-morphix and hwsetup-morphix, both in the repository and in subversion. hwsetup is modified slightly from the original knoppix code, but it probably has to do with the card not being detected properly (does it exist in hwdata?) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE9LoEQeuQA5TF/UsRAt3uAJ0TKwt3H4CFiK+ss+jGagPZYXghGACfSgOW q2DDkCq54KppYeZ6j6SlGbI= =Bot8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
From: Sascha W. <wi...@in...> - 2006-08-25 08:18:08
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Alex de Landgraaf <al...@de...> writes: > Sascha Wilde wrote: >> thanks for your reply. The /morphix/packages.gz file is a quite >> useful hint, retrieving the sources according to its content will be >> easy indeed (I'll post a script here, if it gets generic enough.). >>=20=20=20 > > Please do, it might be worthwhile integrating this into mmaker. I attached my first simple shot on the problem. You can feed it a packages.gz and it will try to retrieve the deb sources... It works well for my own main module but ... >> So the only question left is: how to get the sources for the >> MorphixBase ISO on which the module gets installed? > > Good call. The /base/morphix module also has a packages.gz, ... but this seems to be a bit of a mess. I extracted the packages.qz From=20the MorphixBase-0.5-pre5.iso and have some trouble to get all the matching sources, it seems some of the used debian packages are fairly old -- apt for example is version 0.5.28.1, which is from 2005/01/16=20=09 according to http://snapshot.debian.net/package/apt#0.5.28.1, and no longer available even in the archive. So two questions: 1. Why are there so incredible old packages on the latest base iso? (it's not only apt, there are half a dozen more...) 2. Can you provide me with the corresponding source packages, as they are not in the debian archive any more? cheers sascha =2D-=20 Sascha Wilde Intevation GmbH wi...@in... int...@in... http://www.intevation.de/~wilde/ http://www.intevation.de/ |
From: Sascha W. <wi...@in...> - 2006-08-16 16:18:34
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Hi *, where does the automagical configuration of X11 take place (and is it still the same as in Knoppix, if yes, which Version)? The Reason I'm asking is, that I got a report that a Test Version of our Morphix based Live CD I'm working on shows a much to low Resolution on a Dell L400 Labtop (uses 640 x 480, but the Labtop should be capable of 1024 x 768). cheers sascha -- Sascha Wilde Intevation GmbH wi...@in... int...@in... http://www.intevation.de/~wilde/ http://www.intevation.de/ |
From: Soumyadip M. <sou...@gm...> - 2006-08-16 15:37:31
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On 8/11/06, Soumyadip Modak <sou...@gm...> wrote: > On 8/11/06, Alex de Landgraaf <al...@de...> wrote: > > Hi Soumayadip, > > > > First try to start apache/postfix from the livecd manually to determine > > if they start at all. If not, then it's likely you're using an old > > version of Morphix (most versions are, you might want to take a base iso > > from morphix.org/autobuilds instead). Morphix has used a wide variety of > > overlaying filesystems, and some of them are known to get in the way. Postfix doesn't start, I get ERR from hidden dentry. nmap localhost doesn't have port 25 open. mysqld also fails to start, and the initscripts spews out a lot of oops and call traces. > > If they do work, then it's something in your init.sh. Perhaps firing off > > the daemons using /etc/init.d/... start will work better. > > I'll try that. The reason I'm not using the init.d scripts is that I > get better error messages, which helps in debugging. > > Thanks for the tips. > > > cheers, > > > > Alex Is there any base module that provides apache+modphp, sendmail/postfix and dovecot/cyrus/courier that I can hack ?? -- Soumyadip Modak sou...@gm... sou...@ub... http://people.ubuntu-in.org/~soumyadip/blog |
From: Soumyadip M. <sou...@gm...> - 2006-08-11 15:43:48
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On 8/11/06, Alex de Landgraaf <al...@de...> wrote: > Hi Soumayadip, > > First try to start apache/postfix from the livecd manually to determine > if they start at all. If not, then it's likely you're using an old > version of Morphix (most versions are, you might want to take a base iso > from morphix.org/autobuilds instead). Morphix has used a wide variety of > overlaying filesystems, and some of them are known to get in the way. Postfix seems to have some problems but apache does start. At least nmap doesn't show port 25 to open. However, Apache somehow doesn't serv up /var/www/index.html when I browse http://localhost. I'll try telnetting into the servers today. > If they do work, then it's something in your init.sh. Perhaps firing off > the daemons using /etc/init.d/... start will work better. I'll try that. The reason I'm not using the init.d scripts is that I get better error messages, which helps in debugging. Thanks for the tips. > cheers, > > Alex -- Soumyadip Modak sou...@gm... sou...@ub... http://people.ubuntu-in.org/~soumyadip/blog |
From: Alex de L. <al...@de...> - 2006-08-11 01:03:00
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Soumyadip Modak wrote: > module-builder and isomorph to build the live cd off the MorphixBase > iso. However postfix is not starting up and apache2 doesn't show > index.html off /var/www. Can somebody please tell me how to build a > livecd off a chroot ? Hi Soumayadip, First try to start apache/postfix from the livecd manually to determine if they start at all. If not, then it's likely you're using an old version of Morphix (most versions are, you might want to take a base iso from morphix.org/autobuilds instead). Morphix has used a wide variety of overlaying filesystems, and some of them are known to get in the way. If they do work, then it's something in your init.sh. Perhaps firing off the daemons using /etc/init.d/... start will work better. cheers, Alex -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE29e7QeuQA5TF/UsRAmTtAJsFB/+CjzVTfAIcutltbeE0y8s5EQCfdXFd AQ/nBSFqPpC4mfviVy6dloU= =ppbi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
From: Soumyadip M. <sou...@gm...> - 2006-08-10 19:15:45
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Hi, I'm trying to run apache2, postfix and dovecot off a Morphix live cd. Now I have made a VM inside VMware server, installed Xubuntu Dapper in it and customised it to my requirements. Then I rsynced the whole root filesystem into a directory of my machine and then I used module-builder and isomorph to build the live cd off the MorphixBase iso. However postfix is not starting up and apache2 doesn't show index.html off /var/www. Can somebody please tell me how to build a livecd off a chroot ? I don't know the attachment policy on this list, so I am not attaching my init.sh file. I am attaching a link where the file can be browsed : http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/20207 Hope that will help isolate the problem. -- Soumyadip Modak sou...@gm... sou...@ub... |
From: Brendan M. S. <me...@ba...> - 2006-08-06 07:54:10
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HI Eli, On 8/6/06, Eli Marmor wrote: > Is MorphingMorphix the successor of MorphixCombined-LightGUI? Yes, so it should be a choice between lightgui and MorphingMorphix > Of the 3 current "light GUI" ISOs, what should I use? > > There are the snapshots of icewm, lightgui, and MorphingMorphix. For installing to HD, lightGui If you want a tutorial about Morphix, (Although the example do not use morphix-rebrand or isomorph) or to make other Morphix LiveCD from the CD - use MorphingMorphix. I have also posted this to the morphix-user list as it is more a user question than a development question. Hope this helps, Brendan |
From: Alex de L. <al...@de...> - 2006-08-01 15:17:59
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jan, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote: > Is there a clever trick to configure wvdial right away? > (The tricks I imagine appear not so clever, e.g. add a <command> > and explicitly configure wvdial) Well, I think using <command> would be the easiest way, but you're right that it isn't very neat. Nearly all packages have sane defaults via debconf, but it seems that wvdial doesn't. If you don't like the looks of all those warnings about wvdial, you can apt-get via <command> and configure wvdial, but besides that I don't know a way around this without diving into wvdial. Maybe someone on morphix-devel can think up something, as most of the mmaker/distrobuilding talk happens there. cheers, Alex -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEz3DkQeuQA5TF/UsRApMtAJ9XLdPIr8gO6waQNbm+0xS8AfYjawCdGVw/ 0tV2eDJqxsNyDZxgCKTnLMg= =fy30 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
From: Jan-Oliver W. <jan...@in...> - 2006-08-01 14:23:37
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Hello, I have problems with integrating wvdial in a Morphix derivate. During the build, this message appears: |... | Setting up wvdial (1.54.0-1.1) ... | | WVDIAL AUTOCONFIGURATION | | WvDial includes a program called wvdialconf, which can automatically | detect your modem and create a /etc/wvdial.conf file. | | Autodetection may cause problems on some computers. | | Do you want to configure wvdial now? [Y/n] Exec: /usr/sbin/chroot /mnt/morphix-build/modbuild-tmp | /usr/bin/apt-get -y --force-yes install xbase-clients | dpkg: error processing wvdial (--configure): | subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 | Errors were encountered while processing: | wvdial | E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) |... Unfortunately it appears very often again - each time some package is configured. Is there a clever trick to configure wvdial right away? (The tricks I imagine appear not so clever, e.g. add a <command> and explicitly configure wvdial) Any hints appreciated. Best Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner: www.intevation.de/~jan | GISpatcher: www.gispatcher.de Kolab Konsortium : www.kolab-konsortium.de | Thuban : thuban.intevation.org Intevation GmbH : www.intevation.de | Kolab : www.kolab.org FreeGIS : www.freegis.org | GAV : www.grass-verein.de |
From: Brendan M. S. <me...@ba...> - 2006-07-12 20:43:06
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Hi Morphers, I have been updating the manual (some nice screenshots!). it is available as a multi-page document:- * http://www.morphix.org/manual/how_tos/docbook_html/index.html or a single document * http://morphix.org/manual/how_tos/docbook_html/morphix_docbook.html Please can I have some feedback :- * What works ? * What does not work ? * What is missing ? * What is wrong ? You do not have to be a =DCber Morpher, to give feedback - the Manual is for anyone that uses Morphix. The source text file is also in the svn repository:- http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/morphix/trunk/how_tos/morphix_docboo= k.txt?view=3Dmarkup The text file is used to make the xml file (Well it would not be Morphix without xml...). then this is used to generate the html. http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/morphix/trunk/how_tos/morphix_docboo= k.xml?view=3Dmarkup Regards, Brendan |
From: Alex de L. <al...@de...> - 2006-07-07 11:14:42
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Sascha Wilde wrote: > what is the canonical way to change the configuration of packages when > installed in a module using mmaker? > > Example: > I'm installing "locales" in my mainmod, but when building the module > I want to have specific values for locales/default_environment_locale > and locales/locales_to_be_generated. The retrieve, patch and command-tags can all be used for this. As with most things regarding morphix, there are many ways and all have their pro's and con's. The Debian-way would be to construct a package that changes the configuration, you could keep this in a local repository and have it installed in your mainmod. Then again, the 'official' stance of Debian is that a package may not directly change the configuration-files of any other package. But that's Debian. You might want to post your questions to morphix-devel instead, it's a bit more active and has become a list on both tool development and custom-livecd development. cheers, Alex |
From: Alex de L. <al...@de...> - 2006-07-07 11:04:15
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Sascha Wilde wrote: > thanks for your reply. The /morphix/packages.gz file is a quite > useful hint, retrieving the sources according to its content will be > easy indeed (I'll post a script here, if it gets generic enough.). > Please do, it might be worthwhile integrating this into mmaker. > So the only question left is: how to get the sources for the > MorphixBase ISO on which the module gets installed? Good call. The /base/morphix module also has a packages.gz, however the rest of the files on the ISO aren't this easily to dig up and retrieve: grub-gfxboot-iso, morphix-grub-menulist, morphix-iso-grubtheme are the packages required on the ISO, these udeb's are defined on the isomaker commandline. busybox-morphix, morphix-miniroot-linuxrc, morphix-miniroot-splash and bootsplash-theme-morphix are the udeb's used to construct miniroot.gz. However these are retrieved via mkminiroot.sh, thus it isn't as easy to verify. All the source files of these are in the morphix package repository and in the SVN repository. In the worst case you could simply list these and apt-get source each of them. A more generic solution would be to hack up isomaker to include an option for retrieving the source of the packages above. cheers, Alex |
From: Sascha W. <wi...@in...> - 2006-07-07 08:37:27
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Hi *, what is the canonical way to change the configuration of packages when installed in a module using mmaker? Example: I'm installing "locales" in my mainmod, but when building the module I want to have specific values for locales/default_environment_locale and locales/locales_to_be_generated. Right now I'm thinking about writing a script which gets called via <patch> in the modules *.xml and chroot's to the builddir, fiddles around with debconf-communicate and and calls dpkg-reconfigure -- but maybe there is a more straightforward way? ps. if it's in the docs, please point me to the right place... cheers sascha =2D-=20 Sascha Wilde Intevation GmbH wi...@in... int...@in... http://www.intevation.de/~wilde/ http://www.intevation.de/ |
From: Sascha W. <wi...@in...> - 2006-07-07 07:29:40
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Alex de Landgraaf <al...@de...> writes: > Sascha Wilde wrote: >> So my question is: are there any scripts available, to collect sources >> for all the stuff on a morphed Morphix (base iso + mmaker build >> mainmodule). Or is there at least a canonical way to get the complete >> corresponding sources for an MorphixBase ISO image? [...] > In each module a list of the packages included is available in > /morphix/packages.gz. Hi Alex, thanks for your reply. The /morphix/packages.gz file is a quite useful hint, retrieving the sources according to its content will be easy indeed (I'll post a script here, if it gets generic enough.). So the only question left is: how to get the sources for the MorphixBase ISO on which the module gets installed? cheers sascha =2D-=20 Sascha Wilde Intevation GmbH wi...@in... int...@in... http://www.intevation.de/~wilde/ http://www.intevation.de/ |
From: Alex de L. <al...@de...> - 2006-07-06 16:33:25
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Sascha Wilde wrote: > So my question is: are there any scripts available, to collect sources > for all the stuff on a morphed Morphix (base iso + mmaker build > mainmodule). Or is there at least a canonical way to get the complete > corresponding sources for an MorphixBase ISO image? Hi Sascha, The issue of having access to all the source of each livecd was one of the main reasons why we went in the mmaker-direction (everything built is done using debian/morphix repositories). In each module a list of the packages included is available in /morphix/packages.gz. It is reasonably simple to simply parse each of these in each module, apt-get source each package from the debian/morphix repository and store these for safekeeping after every mmaker build. Even so, I haven't written anything for this yet myself. cheers, Alex |
From: Sascha W. <wi...@in...> - 2006-07-06 15:49:50
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Hi, I'm working on our first Morphix based Live CD, a standard obstacle when building Free Software Live CDs for distribution is, that you have to provide full corresponding sources (at least required by the GPL). While this is a good thing[tm] IMO, this is a big amount of work, as you have to maintain a source tree, which not only has to be complete, but also hold the exact versions of sources for all the Software on the CD. In the past I wrote some simple Scripts, to gather all the sources for the stuff on an customized Knoppix, it worked quite well for the Debian packages on the CD, but there was still a bunch of manual work to do, especially for the Knoppix specific stuff. So my question is: are there any scripts available, to collect sources for all the stuff on a morphed Morphix (base iso + mmaker build mainmodule). Or is there at least a canonical way to get the complete corresponding sources for an MorphixBase ISO image? Any hints are highly welcome cheers sascha =2D-=20 Sascha Wilde Intevation GmbH wi...@in... int...@in... http://www.intevation.de/~wilde/ http://www.intevation.de/ |