Re: IMPORTANT: Do live Debian images have a future?

2017-06-26 Thread Narcis Garcia
A Live Debian-Hurd would be cool too. These days has been a doubt in debian-hurd list, and some proposed solutions were to boot from other media to perform fsck + grub-install to repair a boot. This action needs live media. __ I'm using this express-made address because personal addresse

Re: IMPORTANT: Do live Debian images have a future?

2017-06-26 Thread Rick Thomas
I'm a user and a tester, not a dev, and I know nothing (and don't want to know anything) about the personal politics between Debian developers. So that's all I'll say on that subject. To Steve's original point: First, a big THANK YOU! to Steve for taking this job on. I, for one, an grateful. I

Re: IMPORTANT: Do live Debian images have a future?

2017-06-26 Thread Narcis Garcia
I use very often all the Live images of many distributions (Debian and many others) to test admin software and new projects. Another scenario is testing a machine with Live media before deciding to install the distro&version. To develop Vinca, for example, I test it with Debian-Live 8.8 and 8.0 ; 7

Re: IMPORTANT: Do live Debian images have a future?

2017-06-26 Thread Michael .
I'm not a dev but I am a user and I do test so I'll add my bit here. Let's be frank Live Wrapper only exists because of animosity within Debian towards the originator of Live Build (and to be honest his own lack of concern for what Debian required of Live Build). Live Wrapper was rushed and was ne

IMPORTANT: Do live Debian images have a future?

2017-06-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Note the cross-posting... ] Hey folks, Background: we released live images for Stretch using new tooling, namely live-wrapper. It is better than what we had before (live-build) in a number of ways, particularly in terms of build reliability and some important new features (e.g. UEFI support). B

GNU/Hurd

2017-06-26 Thread Narcis Garcia
Can I follow some procedure that drives me to build a Hurd kernel based Debian-Live? Thanks.