attempt at live-build of 12.04 amd64 iso

gistfile1.sh

#!/bin/bash

# looking for a way to start from the official build files
# is livecd-rootfs what we build from or is there another source?

sudo apt-get install -y
  livecd-rootfs \
  live-build \
  syslinux-themes-ubuntu-precise \
  syslinux-themes-ubuntu-oneiric \
  syslinux-themes-ubuntu \
  gfxboot-theme-ubuntu

#  this is a bug in live-build?... this dir gets created twice for some reason
sudo sed -i 's/mkdir uuid/mkdir -p uuid/' /usr/share/live/build/scripts/build/lb_binary_disk

# Running in shm on a box with lots of ram speeds things up
mkdir -p /run/shm/live-build
cd /run/shm/live-build

mkdir -p auto
cp /usr/share/livecd-rootfs/live-build/auto/* auto/
export PROJECT=ubuntu \
 SUITE=precise \
 ARCH=amd64 \
 BINARYFORMAT=iso-hybrid \
# BINARYFORMAT=usb-hdd \ 
# I like using local mirrors
 LB_PARENT_MIRROR_BOOTSTRAP="http://localhost:8910/debian" \
 LB_PARENT_MIRROR_CHROOT="http://localhost:8910/debian" \
 LB_PARENT_MIRROR_VOLITILE="http://localhost:8910/debian" \
 LB_PARENT_MIRROR_DEBIAN_INSTALLER="http://localhost:8910/debian" \
 LB_MIRROR_BOOTSTRAP="http://localhost:8910/debian" \
 LB_MIRROR_CHROOT="http://localhost:8910/debian"


sudo lb_clean
lb config
# would need to edit/fork auto/config to fix this:
sed -i 's/LB_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION="lzma"/LB_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION="gzip"/' config/common
sudo lb build

# results in isos that are missing casper/vmlinuz amoung other things
# /run/shm/live-build$ ls binary/casper/
# filesystem.manifest         filesystem.squashfs          vmlinuz-3.2.0-24-generic
# filesystem.manifest-remove  initrd.img-3.2.0-24-generic
# filesystem.size             memtest