piserver

Raspberry Pi Server wizard to serve Raspbian to network booting Pis

How to rebuild piserver

Get dependencies

On Raspbian install the build dependencies:

sudo apt-get install build-essential devscripts debhelper cmake libldap2-dev libgtkmm-3.0-dev libarchive-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libcap-dev intltool git

If not using a Pi (or other armhf device), you also need the following runtime dependencies:

sudo apt-get install binfmt-support qemu-user-static

Get the source

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/raspberrypi/piserver.git

Build the Debian package

cd piserver
debuild -uc -us

debuild will compile everything, create a .deb package and put it in the parent directory. Can install it with dpkg:

cd ..
sudo dpkg -i piserver*.deb

Extra dependencies if NOT running Raspbian or "Debian Stretch with Raspberry Pi desktop"

dnsmasq

Piserver requires dnsmasq version 2.77 or later. If your Linux distribution comes with an older version, compile the latest version from source:

sudo apt-get install libnetfilter-conntrack-dev libidn11-dev libgmp-dev nettle-dev liblua5.2-dev
git clone --depth 1 http://thekelleys.org.uk/git/dnsmasq.git
cd dnsmasq
debuild -uc -us
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i dnsmasq-base_*.deb dnsmasq_*.deb

If you are running Raspbian this is not necessary. Although it is using an older dnsmasq version as well, it has been patched to include the newer features used (--dhcp-reply-delay and tftp-unique-root=mac options).

IP update hook

It is expected that the computer that is running piserver:

• is configured to use a static IP-address that never changes.
• -OR- uses dhcpcd as network manager. In which case it will notify piserver automatically if your server's IP ever changes.
• -OR- that you configure your network manager program (e.g. using a ifup/networkd-dispatcher hook script) to execute "piserver --update-ip" every time the system obtains a new IP lease.