Re: RFC: persistence improvements plans

2011-11-15 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 11/15/2011 11:59 PM, Jean-Michel Philippe wrote: To say the truth I read the manual quite a long time ago (and the online documentation is returning blank pages tonight). i was refering to the manpage, not manual. However what I meant is that, as indicated on the Tails website, we don't ne

Re: RFC: persistence improvements plans

2011-11-15 Thread Jean-Michel Philippe
> My project, ButtonOS, is based on LXDE, but the idea of auto starting an X > session > with an arbitrary application ( in my case iceweasel) and having no login is > implemented > there. > The key to it is remembering the difference between a "session manager", the > "window manager", > and "d

Re: RFC: persistence improvements plans

2011-11-15 Thread Jean-Michel Philippe
> but.. there's autologin since always, with a bunch of supported > display-managers. x-session-manager can as well be set through boot > parameters.. did you by any chance had a look at the live-config manpage > at some point? not sure i'm missing something, but if do, please let me > know so

Re: RFC: persistence improvements plans

2011-11-15 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 11/15/2011 10:42 PM, Jean-Michel Philippe wrote: I guess most of LiveCD's don't want a login screen since users aren't asked for a user name and a password. This is then a must have tool for Debian live in my opinion. but.. there's autologin since always, with a bunch of supported display-m

Re: RFC: persistence improvements plans

2011-11-15 Thread Joseph Gunn
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:42:37 +0100 Jean-Michel Philippe wrote: > > This menu is called tails-greeter and is not ready to be released yet. > > We'll use it for much more than persistence. > > > > Details: > > > > https://tails.boum.org/todo/boot_menu/ > > https://tails.boum.org/todo/TailsGre

Re: RFC: persistence improvements plans

2011-11-15 Thread Jean-Michel Philippe
> This menu is called tails-greeter and is not ready to be released yet. > We'll use it for much more than persistence. > > Details: > > https://tails.boum.org/todo/boot_menu/ > https://tails.boum.org/todo/TailsGreeter/ Very interesting indeed. I think we'll have similar issues in the future

Re: unable to locate auto

2011-11-15 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 11/15/2011 06:07 PM, '2+ wrote: what am i missing in my command line? in 3.x, you're not supposed to use --packages anymore, but create a package list. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet:

"a custom mounts configurable system" in live-boot

2011-11-15 Thread anonym
Hi, In live-boot/scripts/live one can find this comment: # FIXME: add a custom mounts configurable system It's in the context of setting up "home-rw", so presumably it's about making overlays able to have their content appear in arbitrary directories, not just in / and /home as we're currently

Bug#648861: live-build: cannot use space in hdd label name

2011-11-15 Thread Bas Wijnen
Package: live-build Version: 3.0~a38-1 Severity: normal When using a space in the label name for a hdd image, the build fails. The problem is that it tries to run Chroot chroot "mkfs.${MKFS} ${MKFS_OPTIONS} ${FREELO}" with MKFS_OPTIONS="... -n ${LB_HDD_LABEL}" This fails because only the fi

unable to locate auto

2011-11-15 Thread '2+
hi now am on sid ;) but whenever i try: lb config --distribution sid --archive-areas "main contrib non-free" --packages "vim-nox alsa-utils python csound vorbis-tools sox mpg321 lame" lb build in the beginning it says that there's no option --packages and fails by saying "unable to locate auto" w