debimg – debian-cd in Python
I’m currently working on a rewrite of debian-cd in Python. Although there is already deb-imgs-gen, I decided to start from scratch, because deb-imgs-gen is more than 1 year old.
debimg’s main features are
Speed
debimg should be able to build netinst disks in less than 20 seconds
Free Software
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Easy Configuration
- Packages can be included based on their priority, tasks or name (no manually created task files)
- All packages are defined in one file,which is based on the format on debian/control. You can even use the “package [architectures]” syntax from Build-Depends
Based on python-apt
- Highspeed dependency solver written in C (or C++ ?)
- Used for downloading all kind of data in debimg
- Packages{,.gz} files are created from the apt cache instead of scanning the disk
many features are missing at the moment, and no code has been released. I will send an email containing more details, like configuration file examples, to the MLs in a few days.
Isn’t this the same as fedoras ‘revisor’ project.
That one is also written in python.
But maybe its based on yum or something to solve the dependencies.
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