[ Added cc to debian-live ] On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 08:41:33AM +0100, Jose M Calhariz wrote: > >Hi,
Hi Jose! >I miss the old rescue images, they were usefull because they had >software that is no longer present on the new images, like for example >amanda to do bare bones recover from backups. While is possible to >use the new images, is a little annoying to have to install the extra >software or have to discover the package that have a missing binary. > >I have cloned the repo debian-cd and I would like some tips to speed >up the understanding how much work is needed to reintroduce the rescue >images for stretch or buster. > >I am at DebCamp18 and I am willing to talk with anyone to help to make >new rescue images. The place to be working on this is the live-tasks repo/source package [1] first. That's where the tasks are defined for our live builds to use. Once there's a task defined there and in the archive, we can add it in the live-setup repo [2] so it'll be built regularly alongside the images for the graphical desktops. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-tasks.git [2] https://salsa.debian.org:images-team/live-setup.git -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Into the distance, a ribbon of black Stretched to the point of no turning back
