I get the reluctance to mix dists. It's also not good to patch sytem components without good reason (there was in that case)
However, live-* has always been a special case, designed to be back-compatible and not have other "unstable deps". They even said they won't support anyone using older versions. Note newer (e.g. backport) kernels need newer live-* (aufs was dropped for overlay) D On 16 May 2016 at 13:34, KatolaZ <kato...@freaknet.org> wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 01:15:40PM +0100, David Hare wrote: >> KatolaZ, FYI, I noticed your iso has empty /dev and a patched >> /usr/share/initramfs-tools/init (and uses an older >> refracta-snapshot).. >> >> That patch was a workaround in refracta-snapshot for bug(s) which only >> last week got officially noted. The original file is still there but >> renamed (this only affected live systems). >> >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=823856 >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=823069 >> >> The problem *seems* sorted with the latest live-boot and >> live-bootiinitramfs-tools in unstable, although the original cause >> appears to be a change in util-linux 2.25 .. >> >> It was anyway previously recommended to use live-* from unstable, even >> if you run stable >> > > Thanks a lot for the report David. > > If this is not a massive issue (i.e., if it does not introduce > problems to the users of the minimal images), I would like the minimal > images to use exactly the same packages we have in the repo, so that > if it's a Jessie live, it would use only packages from Jessie. This is > just to avoid dependency problems while building those images (and, to > be honest, I have always had a personal idiosyncracy against mixing > different repos...). > > I am now in the process of freezing and pushing the work I have done > so far with the current version that uses refractasnapshot. Then I > will produce an updated set of images which include much more stuff > for the same price (96 MB of RAM, less than 250 MB of space). > > At the moment I am also considering other alternatives, e.g. using > live-build on a debootsrapped chroot. This would save a good amount of > space on the minimal image, would simplify the whole process, and > would make it easier to customise things and to produce minimal live > images also for the testing branch (ascii). But it will probably > require a few days of spare time (or a couple of dreamless nights...) > :) > > TTYL > > KatolaZ > > -- > [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] > [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] > [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] > [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
