Dear Maintainer,

simple-cdd simply rocks. Thank you very much for this!

I've just created a profile "scdd" which installs one package, simple-cdd and
copies the configuration used on the medium, so that a freshly installed system
is capable of creating simple-cdd's with the very same configuration.

This works nicely, with one small issue: I also had to install mtools manually
on the fresh installed system, somehow it doesnt get pulled in by simple-cdd…

I'd be interested in including this in the default/example profiles, if
it's generalizable!

Hmmm... debian-cd recommends mtools, not sure why it doesn't get
included. Might be something in tmp/logs/ suggesting why.

The dependency resolver for simple-cdd is kind of hacky, so it's not
totally surprising...


live well,
  vagrant

it probably is, it's basically this, which of course is a hack and should be
done more nicely… (it's basically still a PoC.)

some-vm:~/Projects/simple-cdd$ cat profiles/scdd.postinst
#!/bin/bash

set +e

# configure simple-cdd so it's ready to use
mkdir /home/user/Projects/simple-cdd
mkdir -p /home/user/Projects/simple-cdd/profiles
# a simple "cp -r" is probably more in order here…
for i in sh conf postinst preseed packages xz ; do
	cp -r /media/cdrom/simple-cdd/*.$i /home/user/Projects/simple-cdd/profiles/
done
mv /home/user/Projects/simple-cdd/profiles/build.sh /home/user/Projects/simple-cdd/
chown -R user:user /home/user/Projects/simple-cdd

some-vm:~/Projects/simple-cdd$ cat profiles/scdd.packages
simple-cdd
mtools
some-vm:~/Projects/simple-cdd$

I see. I might investigate in a few weeks… ;-) (extremely short on time atm, sorry.)

Til then, let's keep this bug report open(?!?), even if only to track the feature
described at the top :-)

Control: retitle 865732 simple-cdd: profile to install and configure simple-cdd
Control: severity 865732 wishlist

I'll consider this for the future at some point!

Oddly enough, generating a default image without any custom profiles
appears to pull in mtools. So I can't confirm that part of the bug at
all.

Thus, I'm retitling this bug to address the remaining issue brought up
for this bug. :)


live well,
  vargant

debian-cd defaults to NORECOMMENDS=1 (see /usr/share/debian-cd/CONF.sh). So it
is IMHO not surprising that mtools is missing in the final CD. I have the same
issue and I also have to include the recommended packages of debian-cd.

If it is not too hacky it would be nice to be able to pull in recommends on a
per-package base.

Regards, Daniel




- -- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages simple-cdd depends on:
ii  dctrl-tools         2.24-3+b1
ii  debian-cd           3.1.32
ii  lsb-release         11.1.0
ii  python3             3.9.1-1
ii  python3-simple-cdd  0.6.8
ii  reprepro            5.3.0-1.1
ii  rsync               3.2.3-3
ii  wget                1.21-1+b1

Versions of packages simple-cdd recommends:
ii  dose-distcheck  5.0.1-16+b1

Versions of packages simple-cdd suggests:
ii  qemu-system                 1:5.2+dfsg-3
ii  qemu-system-x86 [qemu-kvm]  1:5.2+dfsg-3

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