Package: debirf
Version: 0.36
Severity: wishlist
The bug #721190 contains a lot of suggested improvements, but all mixed
together in a confusing way.
Part of it was suggestions for additional packages for the rescue profile:
Andreas Mohr writes...
> Possibly good rescue packages, smallish:
> sshfs xmount fusedav
> memtester dmidecode vbetool
> netcat buffer cpipe
> ethtool
> hexedit
> strace ltrace
> perforate fdupes
> larger ones:
> ntfs-3g partclone
> ntpdate
> elinks-lite (probably size-preferable to curl and especially to wget)
> less relevant ones:
> superiotool mii-diag (mii-tool provided by ethtools)
My opinions on the above for rescue:
* one of netcat or socat would be good
* something like wget/curl/elinks-lite would be nice, I love having wget
that in d-i(maybe check out they implemented it)
* mii-tool is in the net-tools package, if that is interesting great,
otherwise maybe add ethtool?
* memtester would be good
* one of dmidecode or hwinfo would be good
* I haven't used partclone, does it do stuff that parted/partimage/gddrescue
doesn't?
* ntfs-3g makes sense to add
* maybe ntpdate could be good, but if you add that maybe having the hwclock
command would be good (from util-linux or systemd)
* superiotool might be interesting, but them maybe so would other tools
like:
flashrom, msrtool, inteltool, ectool, nvramtool
* I personally don't see a need for the following in the rescue profile,
but maybe Andreas can explain more:
sshfs, xmount, fusedav, buffer, cpipe, hexedit, strace, ltrace,
perforate, fdupes
In addition to those I have some suggestions:
* ssh (both client and server), see #834476
* rsync
* cpuburn
* initramfs-tools
* cramfsprogs
* usbutils
* lm-sensors / fancontrol
All of the above would need to be measured for how much they would
contribute to the image size. I don't think any of them would be good for
minimal or xkiosk.
--
Matt Taggart
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