On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 19:58:00 -0300
Ben Armstrong wrote:
>> one of the things that people very commonly want to do with a live
>> ISO is access their existing filesystems, when they can't boot off
>> them for some reason. LVM and RAID are not rare or unusual; they are
>> standard for any serious i
On 28/08/13 08:07 PM, Daniel Reichelt wrote:
>> Maintained by someone (are you volunteering?) outside the Debian Live
>> project? Sure! Go for it! :)
>
> well, why not? will you sponsor me? i'm not a debian maintainer yet.
Maybe I was being a bit too flip. :) Even if we had a straight up
translat
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> Maintained by someone (are you volunteering?) outside the Debian Live
> project? Sure! Go for it! :)
well, why not? will you sponsor me? i'm not a debian maintainer yet.
Daniel
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>> Why task-live? What makes these "live" things. I'm just not seeing it.
>
> Because one of the things that people very commonly want to do with a
> live ISO is access their existing filesystems, when they can't boot off
> them for some reason. LVM a
On 28/08/13 07:42 PM, Daniel Reichelt wrote:
> solution-oriented proposal: how about a new package called "task-rescue"...
> ...pulling-in all those historically abnormal packages? (pun intended .-) )
Maintained by someone (are you volunteering?) outside the Debian Live
project? Sure! Go for it! :
On 28/08/13 06:41 PM, ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 16:50:08 -0300
> Ben Armstrong wrote:
>>> Alternatively, create a new pseudo-package called "task-live" which
>>> pulls them in, and have that included in the build via either
>>> "live.list.chroot" or "standard.list.chroot"
On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 16:50:08 -0300
Ben Armstrong wrote:
> I didn't say that I agree that they should be included in the desktop
> ISO images. I agreed merely that the packages are useful. (In case you
> thought I was saying they aren't.) However, I can think of tons of
> useful packages that coul
On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 06:04:33 -0300
Ben Armstrong wrote:
>> If you agree that it would be beneficial to include these packages in
>> the desktop ISO images, then surely it is the intended purpose of
>> "live-tools" to accomplish things like that.
>
> No, the intended purpose of live-tools is to p
On 28/08/13 04:37 PM, ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 06:04:33 -0300
> Ben Armstrong wrote:
>> No, the intended purpose of live-tools is to provide tools that must
>> behave differently in a live environment as alternatives for the
>> standard ones, or else other tools providin
On 28/08/13 12:37 AM, ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote:
> I note that all the live ISO images include a package called
> "live-tools", which is apparently maintained by the Debian Live Project.
>
> Could I suggest that "lvm2", "mdadm", and "parted" be listed as
> dependencies of this package, as "perl
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