-grml-live (0.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
+grml-live (0.1) unstable; urgency=low
+ * Bump version number to 0.1 as we ship grml-live with the
+ upcoming stable versions.
* Use /usr/bin/vim.tiny as alternativ for vi.
* Add new packages to GRML_FULL:
- at76-usb-modules-2.6.23-grml64
* /etc/grml/fai/config/scripts/GRMLBASE/98-clean-chroot:
remove packages via dpkg instead of apt-get. Thanks for the
bugreport and the patch, Lupe Christoph! [Closes: issue367]
- * Add SQUASHFS_ZLIB template to grml-live.conf.
+ * Use -no-progress option for mksquashfs only if it's supported.
-- Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:56:01 +0100
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Important! This document is growing as requested. If you have questions which
aren't answered by this document yet please let me know: <mika@grml.org>!
-This document currently applies to grml-live version 0.0.14.
+This document currently applies to grml-live version 0.1.
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Description
-a **ARCHITECTURE**::
Use the specified architecture instead of the currently running one. This
-allows building a 32bit system on a 64bit host. Please notice that real
+allows building a 32bit system on a 64bit host (though you can't build a 64bit
+system on a 32bit system/kernel of course). Please notice that real
crosscompiling (like building a ppc system on x86) isn't possible due to the
-nature and the need of working in a chroot.
+nature and the need of working in a chroot. Currently supported values: i386
+and amd64.
-b::
# grml-live -c GRMLBASE,GRML_SMALL,I386 -o /home/mika/grml-live
+To get a medium sized, Debian-unstable and grml-based Live-CD for i386
+architecture using /grml/grml-live as build and output directory just run:
+
+ # grml-live -a i386 -c GRMLBASE,GRML_MEDIUM,I386
+
To get a small, Debian-unstable and grml-based Live-CD using /tmp as build and
output directory and use grml_0.0-3.iso as ISO name (placed inside
/tmp/grml_isos) just invoke:
you should have >=1GB of RAM) just run "mount -o remount,suid,dev,rw /dev/shm"
and use /dev/shm as build and output directory - resulting in very fast build
process. But please be aware of the fact that rebooting your system will result
-in an empty /dev/shm, so please another directory for $CHROOT_OUTPUT,
+in an empty /dev/shm, so please use another directory for $CHROOT_OUTPUT,
$BUILD_OUTPUT and $ISO_OUTPUT if you plan to create more persistent output. :)
Main features of grml-live
# ... and the sources.list entry for the directory:
# MIRROR_SOURCES="deb file:///mnt/mirror/debian sid main contrib non-free"
-# Use ZLIB instead of LZMA compression? Faster and available in older
-# squashfs versions as well but not such a good compression.
-# SQUASHFS_ZLIB=1
-
# Version number of ISO:
VERSION="0.0-1"
# Authors: grml-team (grml.org), (c) Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
# Bug-Reports: see http://grml.org/bugs/
# License: This file is licensed under the GPL v2 or any later version.
-# Latest change: Fri Jan 11 02:00:39 CET 2008 [mika]
+# Latest change: Fre Jän 11 09:09:02 CET 2008 [mika]
################################################################################
# read configuration files, set some misc variables {{{
# exit on any error:
set -e
-GRML_LIVE_VERSION='0.0.15'
+GRML_LIVE_VERSION='0.1'
CMDLINE="$0 $@"
ISO_DATE="$(date +%Y-%m-%d)"
[ -f "$CHROOT_OUTPUT/base.tgz" ] && rm -f "$CHROOT_OUTPUT/base.tgz"
# execute squashfs:
- log "mksquashfs $CHROOT_OUTPUT/* $BUILD_OUTPUT/live/grml.squashfs -noappend -no-progress"
- mksquashfs $CHROOT_OUTPUT/* $BUILD_OUTPUT/live/grml.squashfs -noappend -no-progress $SQUASHFS_OPTIONS $SQUASHFS_ZLIB
+ if mksquashfs --help 2>&1 | grep -- -no-progress ; then
+ log "mksquashfs $CHROOT_OUTPUT/* $BUILD_OUTPUT/live/grml.squashfs -noappend -no-progress"
+ mksquashfs $CHROOT_OUTPUT/* $BUILD_OUTPUT/live/grml.squashfs -noappend -no-progress $SQUASHFS_OPTIONS $SQUASHFS_ZLIB
+ else
+ log "mksquashfs $CHROOT_OUTPUT/* $BUILD_OUTPUT/live/grml.squashfs -noappend"
+ mksquashfs $CHROOT_OUTPUT/* $BUILD_OUTPUT/live/grml.squashfs -noappend $SQUASHFS_OPTIONS $SQUASHFS_ZLIB
+ fi
log "Finished execution of stage 'squashfs' [$(date)]"
einfo "Finished execution of stage 'squashfs'" ; eend 0
fi