Am 17.10.2010 23:55, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi:
The aforementioned test images are here: http://alberich.archlinux.org/misc/testiso/
As for the "hacked" part: 1) I built kernel26-live with squashfs-lzma and aufs in the kernel (will become an [extra] package maybe?). Sounds good. What patches are you using? Is not posible/easy to build only "sqfslzma" module? (plus a trivial patch for add lzma "as supported" in kernel26 package).
No, the part that was rejected by Linus was making the lzma decompressor available to non-init code. The changes to the squashfs module are rather small. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-lzma.git;a=summary The last 6 patches can be cleanly rebased upon 2.6.35.7, that's what I use.
(We have a party when we lzma + Val's writable overlays in Linux vanilla :P)
We can try porting archiso to union-mounts soon and see how that works out.
2) I removed tiacx and ndiswrapper as I didn't want to build any external modules for now (Can we drop them from the ISO?). I don't know I never used that.
The tiacx has no future, and ndiswrapper is almost dead these days.
3) I patched syslinux-iso to pacman -Rn kernel26 (this is ugly, but I see no better way). another workaround can be in Makefile
- mkarchiso -p base create $(WORKDIR) + mkarchiso -p $(shell pacman -Sgq base | grep -v ^kernel26$) create $(WORKDIR)
If we do not insist on using the base group, why not?
On another note, archisobasedir was broken (still is in the test images), and converting an ISO to run from a subfolder requires some sed-work. Maybe it would be easier to just have everything in the archlinux/ subfolder on the ISO, so that remastering onto another medium will be less messy (I copied the ISO to a FAT32 into an archlinux/ subfolder, adjusted archisolabel, archisobasedir, installed syslinux(FAT version) and changes some paths here and there - I now have an Arch system contained entirely in a subfolder on my USB).
Yes I want this, seems that other people too :) In these days I am busy, but I can experiment on this in some days.
Then the easiest thing to do is move all files to archlinux/ (including isomounts) and set archisobasedir=archlinux/.