[SCM] live-manual branch, debian, updated. debian/2.0_a11-1-16-gacf5efc

Ben Armstrong synrg at debian.org
Wed Dec 1 10:59:42 UTC 2010


The following commit has been merged in the debian branch:
commit 5832fae03282b2bb0988a17b817f9714a7ce9dd5
Author: Ben Armstrong <synrg at debian.org>
Date:   Wed Dec 1 06:48:55 2010 -0400

    Clarifying use of personal builder to build live-boot.

diff --git a/manual/en/user_installation.ssi b/manual/en/user_installation.ssi
index a295d0b..487715f 100644
--- a/manual/en/user_installation.ssi
+++ b/manual/en/user_installation.ssi
@@ -118,9 +118,9 @@ And beware that if you want to add your pre-init script in live-bottom, you shou
 
 _* Build a live-boot .deb
 
-% FIXME: not strictly true? building sid on squeeze is usually OK. also, building lenny on squeeze or sid is fine. clarify.
+You must build either on your target distribution or in a chroot containing your target platform: this means if your target is Squeeze then you should build against Squeeze. Y
 
-You must build either on your target distribution or in a chroot containing your target platform: this means if your target is Squeeze then you should build against Squeeze. You can use a personal builder such as /{pbuilder}/ or /{sbuild}/ to automate building packages in chroot. To build directly on the target platform, use #{dpkg-buildpackage}# (provided by the /{dpkg-dev}/ package):
+Use a personal builder such as /{pbuilder}/ or /{sbuild}/ if you need to build #{live-boot}# for a target distribution that differs from your build system. For example, for Squeeze live images, build #{live-boot}# in a Squeeze chroot. If your target distribution happens to match your build system distribution, you may build directly on the build system using #{dpkg-buildpackage}# (provided by the /{dpkg-dev}/ package):
 
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@@ -131,10 +131,7 @@ $ dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc -us
 
 _* Use the generated live-boot .deb
 
-As live-boot is installed by live-build system, installing the package in the host system is not sufficient: you should treat the generated .deb like another custom package. Please see custom-packages for more information. You should pay particular attention to custom-packages-apt.
-
-% FIXME: <xref linkend="custom-packages"/> <xref linkend="custom-packages-apt"/>
-% Ben> What is the latter reference for? I can't see the relevance.
+As live-boot is installed by live-build system, installing the package in the host system is not sufficient: you should treat the generated .deb like another custom package. Please see {Customizing package installation}#customizing-package-installation for more information. You should pay particular attention to {Additional repositories}#additional-repositories.
 
 3~ Using live-boot snapshots
 

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