[Voyage-linux] voyage_custom.sh suggestions

[Kim-man "Punky" TSE]

Hi Danny,

The current customization script is very draft and is just suitable for 
creating simple stuff.  I agree that it will need further enhancement.  
On the other hand, I can still see that you can create what you required 
using two project profiles.  The first project profile will use 
overlay_fs to copy all files (you modified sources.list, ), the second 
profile to run "apt-get install" and "dpkg -i" stuff. 

I added chroot.d just before 0.2 is released, so forget to correct the 
doc in wiki.

Your comment is well appreciated, and I am more happier to see if there 
is any code contribution for enhancing the customization script as well.

- Punky

Danny Adair wrote:
> Hello,
>
> (Note: I'm talking about voyage-current, not 0.2)
>
> Background: I would like to have an automated build of a USB flash
> drive booting Linux together with a newly developed application
> (checked out from my SVN repository). My focus is on minimizing the
> customizations (also in SVN), and Voyage Linux together with its new
> customization framework seemed the ideal platform.
>
> I've been installing Voyage Linux on a USB flash drive repeatedly now. 
> :-)
>
> I do have some suggestions for voyage_update.sh (to accomodate for the
> quite different installation procedure - see
> http://wiki.voyage.hk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=how_do_i_install_voyage_on_a_usb_flash_drive 
>
> - namely putting /boot to the grub partition and adjusting all
> relevant config files), but I'm currently using a post-installation
> workaround which is quite painless.
>
> But voyage_custom.sh still gives me some headaches.
> I know it's still in active development, so here are some suggestions
> from my experiences in the last days:
>
> - apt sources: Although I adjust conf/apt.conf, packages are installed
> from the .hk mirror - sources.list is updated later.
>
> - Package cache: It would be nice to have a local apt cache for
> repeated builds. I understand that apt/dpkg is run in the chroot
> environment, so the package cache would have to be provided by
> overlay_fs.
>
> - (related) Local Debian packages: It would be nice if conf/dpkg-i.lst
> allowed for local .deb files to be referenced, i.e. without wget.
> Ideally these could be provided by overlay_fs (how could subsequent
> deletion of the .deb file be configured?).
> That way I could throw in my customized kernel package from
> http://wiki.voyage.hk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=how_do_i_install_voyage_on_a_usb_flash_drive 
>
> and automate such a customized installation (with exception of grub, 
> see above)
> The goal here is to allow for an offline build/installation which can
> be a big performance plus when building repeatedly.
> (Mmh, in the special case of the kernel package, conf/kernel.conf
> seems to be the right place - example?).
>
> - Documentation: scripts/chroot.d from the "mesh" example is not
> documented in http://wiki.voyage.hk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=customization.
> Also, it would be nice to see the sequence in which the customization
> steps are performed.
>
> Cheers,
> Danny
>
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