2014-09-20 15:49 GMT+02:00 Stefan Baur <newsgroups.ma...@stefanbaur.de>:
> Am 20.09.2014 um 15:12 schrieb Daniel Lindgren: > > > We pretty much just use Notepad (Windows again) to edit the menu files. > > My experience with "DO NOT EDIT ..." and similar instructions is that > > they aren't foolprof enough. Douglas Adams wrote "a common mistake that > > people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to > > underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools" ... but we still have to > > try. :/ > > I don't see why changing debian-live would improve that situation. > If your lusers can edit those files, they can wreak havoc by > fat-fingering their keyboards and introducing typos. > Place the note in the file, make it a company policy that the edit > script has to be used; preferably, introduce version control. > Someone edits a file by hand and breaks things -> disciplinary action, > period. > > If you cater to a society of incompetent, irresponsible idiots, you only > nurture the growth of such imbeciles. Sometimes people only learn > through pain, and this is a case where it seems appropriate. Either > they're trustworthy enough to be administrators, or they will learn the > hard way that dicking with productions systems by skipping security > precautions and established procedures will bite them personally in the > rear, and not just the company. > > Well, look at if from my point of view: Option 1: Update debian-live to accept the initrd as a search option for the squashfs file. if Daniel Baumann is correct it only requires a few of lines to enable the functionality. Option 2: Create scripts that autogenerate menu files for PXELINUX, introduce a company policy that everyone use the scripts, introduce version control (in a Windows environment, not that easy), start policing my coworkers and punish them if they ever make a mistake. I know what option I would prefer. I'm happy to try to hunt down and send a patch with the necessary script updates, but it would probably be a quicker and better result if someone that knows the inner workings of debian-live did it. it would certainly be highly appreciated by me and probably others (judging by that old patch I found in the mailing list archive). Cheers, Daniel
