debian-cd hacking questions

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 02:13:31AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> - I need to add software from universe and multiverse. I don't think it
>   is supported by the current debian-cd, right ? If not, I'm just
>   planning to grep -i restricted and see what need to be changed.

That sounds like a reasonable approach.

> - Is ubuntu's debian-cd codebase managed somewhere via CVS or sthing ?
>   I'd better get the latest version if I'm going to submit patches for
>   some stuff.

Not in revision control quite yet unfortunately, but I think I directed
you before to a tarball of the code:

  http://cdimage.ubuntulinux.org/code/debian-cd.tar.bz2

> - What's the correct way of building a Ubuntu mirror ? I'm trying to use
>   debmirror, but it fails I use both the warty-updates dists, and the
>   main/debian-installer section (because there's no main/di section in
>   warty-updates). So I ended up doing a full rsync, but I'm not really
>   satisfied...

Hmm, I don't mirror warty-updates at home which solves that problem.
James, perhaps we should just create warty-updates/main/debian-installer
even if nothing's likely to use it for the moment?

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]