[Neurodebian-devel] Creating Neurodebian image with Veewee

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, Emmanuel Kasper wrote:

> Am 2013-08-09 19:50, schrieb Yaroslav Halchenko:
> > Hi Emmanuel,

> > Thanks for chiming in!

> > Ruby&me are not close friends unfortunately thus all of that pushed me
> > back from trying veewee again for quite a long time now.


> So after having tryed different approaches, I am dropping the towel with
> Veewee.
> Veewee has hardcoded codes which downloads the VirtualBox guest
> additions, and hard codes codes which installs the Guest Addition.
> It's relatively easy to comment that out, bit I don't want to sit on a
> pile of code I cannot manage and which has dubious release plans.

quick question: have you tried to contact upstream (github issues)
seeking his output on either he would be interested to make this steps
optional/better controlled/etc?  May be resolution is just a simple
patch/pull request  away?

in my experience he (Patrick?) was quite responsive and open.

> I will create now my Vagrant Boxes with
> https://github.com/EmmanuelKasper/vagrant-debian-wheezy-64/tree/debian_vanilla
> Works very well, clean (gasp) bash code, and do already all what I want.

thanks for the pointer

> The script use an interseting approach for preseeding: it unpacks the
> initrd from the ISO cd, adds the preseed.cfg to it, and repacks everything.

indeed interesting... if you looked at our script -- it is based on
firing up simple http server to provide any needed file including
preseeding one.

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