Bug#935973: debian-installer: cryptsetup-initramfs will not be installed even when using full-disk encryption.
Package: debian-installer Followup-For: Bug #935973 Hi! I can confirm this issue. cryptsetup-initramfs is not installed neither by the Buster, not by the Bullseye installer. When full-disc-encryption was set up, I have to boot in rescue mode and install the package. Regards Thomas -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE:de (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Bug#935931: Re: Bug#935931: debian-installer: Reinstalling Debian on a current Debian installation without erasing or fomatting the home folder
Dear All, In this case I suggest hence to expand the use cases and to evaluate the feature to reinstall Debian on top of itself without overwriting the home partition. While it doesn't seem a complicated achievement, it brings instead a great advantage for the end user and improves greatly the desktop experience, for new users as well for the power users. My regards, Daniel
Bug#935931: Re: Bug#935931: debian-installer: Reinstalling Debian on a current Debian installation without erasing or fomatting the home folder
On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 05:19:06PM -0400, Daniel wrote: > Holger Wansing wrote: > > The debian-installer supports similar use case via the "separate > > partition for /home" approach. > to reinstall Debian on top of itself without overwriting the home partition. Yes, that is what Holger is telling. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Leven en laten leven
Bug#935931: Re: Bug#935931: debian-installer: Reinstalling Debian on a current Debian installation without erasing or fomatting the home folder
Geert Stappers writes: > On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 05:19:06PM -0400, Daniel wrote: >> Holger Wansing wrote: >> > The debian-installer supports similar use case via the "separate >> > partition for /home" approach. >> to reinstall Debian on top of itself without overwriting the home partition. > > Yes, that is what Holger is telling. I think Daniel is requesting an option that does something like this: find /install-target -maxdepth 1 | grep -v 'home\|lost+found' | xargs rm -rf Maybe this way isn't robust enough, but active mounts shouldn't have their mount points removed, because rm: cannot remove '/install-target/foo': Device or resource busy BTW, Daniel, you can decruft your system with "apt purge --autoremove foo", which also deletes config in /etc and will notify you if any files remain in /var. One of the greatest strengths of Debian is that unlike other operating systems, smooth upgrades between stable versions are taken seriously...gravely seriously...so one never needs to reinstall. The only things that I've seen that have ever required action are packages that needed manual configuration updates in /etc (equally solvable by apt purge), and obsolete/broken configuration in /home/user (not solved if this feature request is implemented). What problem is this feature request intended to solve? FrankenDebian? https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian Cheers, Nicholas P.S. apt install installation-birthday :-) signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Bug#935931: Re: Bug#935931: debian-installer: Reinstalling Debian on a current Debian installation without erasing or fomatting the home folder
I am addressing another case, the one you have not separated partitions for /, /home and swap. As a matter of fact if the installer is able to recognize the home folder having /home separated in another partition is not necessary anymore. The advantage respect having the /home separated, specifically for a desktop use are noteworthy. If the installer, instead of creating /, /home and swap, creates just / and a swap file and if is able to reinstall itself without overwriting the home folder I think is a huge improvement. As a matter of fact if you reinstall Debian, even with /home in another partition, there is not any assisted aid that explain you how to properly setup the /home partition. Having the system partitioned is already a setup for advanced user. Thanks, D. On 9/27/19 6:45 PM, Geert Stappers wrote: On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 05:19:06PM -0400, Daniel wrote: Holger Wansing wrote: The debian-installer supports similar use case via the "separate partition for /home" approach. to reinstall Debian on top of itself without overwriting the home partition. Yes, that is what Holger is telling. Groeten Geert Stappers
