Alex King <alex@king.net.nz> (2018-01-28): > I wanted to build a net installer that would load stable (actually jessie > but I'll start with stable) but using a recent kernel. > > Firstly I went to https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller#Development and > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/CheckOut > > I checked out the dev version using Anonymous checkout instructions and was > reading... "If you just want to build bootable images, see > d-i/installer/build/README" > > So I was reading that README and realised that I probably wanted to build > from stable not the development version, so I followed the instructions in > there starting with "apt-get source debian-installer", the rest you can see > in my original message. > > Now that I see Cyril's message it makes sense to use dpkg-buildpackage. I > don't build debian packages every day so I am not really familiar with all > the normal tools/workflow of a debian developer. > > Now I am reading https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Build, which my > browser tells me I read before (maybe a while ago.) I see that has the > advice to use dpkg-buildpackage. > > Probably a note about dpkg-buildpackage and/or debian/rules could go in > build/README? dpkg-buildpackage and debian/rules are the standard interface to building Debian packages, so there's very little point in mentioning that specifically. Also, build/README contains this: | Recipe: | - Install the build-dependencies on the host system | (run dpkg-checkbuilddeps in the parent installer/ directory). | - Create your own sources.list.udeb.local, otherwise the build host's | sources.list is taken as a template for sources.list.udeb. | - Run "make" to get a list of available targets. | - Build an image using one of the build_ targets (build_netboot, | all_build, etc). You may want to set the USE_UDEBS_FROM variable, | documented below. | - Look in dest/ for the completed images. and the documentation of USE_UDEBS_FROM points to debian/rules already. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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