On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Hector Oron wrote: > 12 Flashable image generation > ═════════════════════════════ > > 12.1 Discussion on supporting pre-installed images > ────────────────────────────────────────────────── > > ⁃ Just fix DI to work on the expected platforms. > ⁃ Document ways to create images with existing tools.
You appear to have not included our discussion from IRC, here is a summary and expansion of the discussion. Flashable images are much nicer than d-i from an ARM mobile devices PoV, hardware vendors/OEMs PoV and also from a cloud PoV. There are some situations like full-disk encryption that can't be done with images but they are still a useful option to have. We already have some flashable images; Debian live & Debian cloud. Both of these do things like post-debootstrap removal of files like SSH private keys and thus a bit hacky. They both also reimplement these things instead of using the same removal code. http://www.debian.org/CD/live/ At DebConf13, Raphaël Hertzog suggested there should be a debconf setting for packages to check for so they are generically configured instead of fully-configured for the local system. debootstrap would set that debconf setting while building the chroot and insert an initial-boot configuration step that removes it and runs all the maintainer scripts again. Questions: What should the debconf setting be called? Who is willing to work on this? Has anyone done some comparisons between multiple debootstrap/d-i installs to see what files should be generated on first-boot of image based installs and what debconf prompts need to happen on first-boot? What things are currently changed post-debootstrap for the live and cloud images? Would the live and cloud people be willing to merge their stuff? I hear the live stuff can generate non-live (read-write) images too so it may be best to standardise on that. We probably need a GUI tool to download and install Debian images onto mobile devices using the various flashers. https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile#software-flashers -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6GG=PyyfH+FM_LNiajfohkcUFd3Qtko=fnwfmx4dth...@mail.gmail.com
