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<title>debian-cd requirements</title>
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<h1>debian-cd requirements</h1>
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<p>debian-cd has a few dependencies, some obvious and some less
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so. The packaged version in Debian depends on the key items that
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<strong>must</strong> be installed, and recommends lots of others.</p>
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<p>This recommendation works, as many of the deps are
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optional. Exactly which sets of packages will be needed is determined
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by the architectures you wish to build CDs for. On some architectures,
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making bootable CDs needs extra support from other packages (e.g. palo
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for hppa CDs).</p>
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<p>The other important dependency for debian-cd cannot be represented
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so easily - it needs a copy of parts of the Debian archive to be able
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to build CDs. This includes the <code>doc</code>, and <code>tools</code>
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directories from the root of the archive.
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Be aware that before version 2.1 the commonly-used <code>debmirror</code>
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package did not grab those directories when mirroring. An alternative to
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<code>debmirror</code> is to use <code>rsync</code> to mirror the archive.
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</p>
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<p>For best performance, the mirror should be on a local disk and the
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user running debian-cd should have permissions to be able to create
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hard links on the same filesystem. It should be possible to run
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without this, using symbolic links instead of hard links, but the code
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to do this is not as well tested and can be expected to be much
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slower.</p>
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<p>For producing <a href="jigdo.html">jigdo</a> files, debian-cd uses a
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patched version of <code>mkisofs</code> which can natively create
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jigdo files. This needs mkisofs version 4:2.01+01a03-4 or newer, or
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genisoimage in Debian.</p>
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(c) Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>, December 2006. GPL v2<br>
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<a href="getting.html">Prev - Getting debian-cd</a><br>
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