Re: Live images url's broken

2025-01-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
g the 07:52Z dinstall, so that's really >just bad luck. > >Either wait until next week's build, or maybe trigger a new one outside >cron to see if there are other problems to get fixed before then? I kicked off a new weekly build by hand a while back, and things are looking bet

Re: arm64 live image working pretty well (Was: arm64 live image online!)

2024-09-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
then we'll need to find some native arm64 hardware to use. There's time to make that happen, we just need to justify the money and setup effort to get that done. If we're hoping to generate a complete set of arm64 live images to match amd4, thet's going to need a big machine of

Bug#1080207: lxde and lxqt bookworm live images fail to install without network

2024-08-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: cdimage.debian.org Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-live@lists.debian.org Found in testing of the 12.7.0 live images. Doing a live installation using calamares from either of these images fails if no network is available. Running /usr/sbin/bootloader-config fails to install the

Re: Bug#1061595: Debian Live 12.4.0 AMD64 Xfce Fails to Start Its Graphical Environment

2024-01-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
d. On release day we tested that and it worked fine. As Jonathan says, I'd check again on the USB stick: make sure you've run sync or similar after writing, and maybe also read back and check the checksum: https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#verify -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Bug#1057853: KDE live images: no desktop icon to start calamares

2023-12-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
Package: debian-live Severity: normal We don't have a KDE desktop icon to launch calamares on the Bookworm live images. No idea what's responsible for this...

Re: When will the Debian 12 32-bit Live ISO arrive?

2023-09-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
86 installer images for trixie. It's time to move on. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: Enabling arm64 live image builds

2023-09-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
pflash,readonly=true \ > -drive file=/tmp/AAVMF_VARS.fd,format=raw,if=pflash \ > -netdev user,id=net0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0 > >Click on View -> serial0 to follow the boot process, and switch back to >ramfb after gdm has started. OK. However, do

Re: Bug#1032071: ARM firmware packages included in amd64 installation images

2023-07-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
dy #1035382 open on the live side, let's bump the severity on that. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com “Why do people find DNS so difficult? It’s just cache invalidation and naming things.” -– Jeff Waugh (https://twitter.com/jdub)

Re: Link broken

2023-07-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
line within the next few hours. Thanks! >However, https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ still mentions i386 live >image on the web page. Whom should I contact to update such information? >The debian-cd list? Ah, I missed that. Fixed in git now. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Link broken

2023-07-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
d). Please do, we no longer make i386 live images. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occa

Re: .disk/info should contain flavour/version of live image

2023-06-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
12 "Bookworm" - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20230610-08:51 In the older bullseye live images, we used to have: Official Debian GNU/Linux Live 11.7.0 gnome 2023-04-29T16:30 It would be nice to be able to tweak this in live-build, to contain more information: * Ful

Re: Starting the weekly live images for Bookworm building again

2023-03-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey again, On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 03:36:53PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >>As you can see, this affects many teams: >>* live-setup: a MR to generate all live images for Bookworm [A2] So, after some delay from me and some further delays from various Debian machines com

Re: Starting the weekly live images for Bookworm building again

2023-01-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
er: A minor fix [A3] No idea about that, leaving for somebody else. >* live-installer: A better user experience after the installer is finished >[A4] Merred just now. >* live-build: Various installer improvements, including off-line installation >[A5] Not sure who might review th

Re: live-setup | Reintroduce regular building of live-build images (!2)

2022-12-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Roland! On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 08:40:05AM +0100, Roland Clobus wrote: >On 28/11/2022 00:49, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >If I did it right, every single build will run in its own directory, so they >will not collide. (See the line with 'export BUILDDIR') >For utmost

Re: live-setup | Reintroduce regular building of live-build images (!2)

2022-11-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 06:15:08PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: ... >Now I can see what you're do in your script, I'm working on merging to >something more current. > >I've just remembered one thing that used to cause major issues with >live-build: multiple

Re: live-setup | Reintroduce regular building of live-build images (!2)

2022-11-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
e-build, I guess we'll see! Thanks for your work so far! I'm hoping to get something working in the weekly image builds soon. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Disci

Re: Issue installing Debian Live on hardware that supports many other distros

2022-08-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
quot;sudo efibootmgr -v" from a terminal and grab the output please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews

Bug#863180: live-wrapper: Add keyboard shortcuts and revamp menus

2022-06-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Samuel, On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 11:47:31PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: >Steve McIntyre, le mar. 25 juil. 2017 00:10:24 +0100, a ecrit: >> >As discussed on >> >https://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/2017/04/msg00130.html >> >it would be useful to have

Re: Live CD for Debian Jr.

2022-03-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
ting. We don't currently have anybody looking after live image releases for unstable/testing, but you might get some help on the debian-live list (in CC). -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control.

Re: Questions from a new Debian Live Build user

2022-02-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
John wrote: >On 12/02/2022 11:02, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Roland Clobus wrote: >>> The Debian installer installs from scratch, you can select any desktop >>> environment and other settings, even though they are not present on the >>> live image. >&

Re: Questions from a new Debian Live Build user

2022-02-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
the base system and running tasksel it simply unpacks the squashfs onto the new system - see the live-installer package if you're not sure. If the d-i on the live image tried to install packages nowrmally, we'd end up having to include a lot of extra .debs into the build to support th

Re: Installing shim-signed:amd64 is met with a "cat: /sys/firmware/efi/fw_platform_size: No such file or directory" error

2021-05-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
pen in that it "cat: /sys/firmware/efi/fw_platform_size: No such >file or directory". Apologies, you've hit bug #988059 in shim-signed. I've just uploaded a fixed version to sid which should now work for you. I've been updating the packaging a lot recently to fi

Re: Some Debian Live testing

2021-04-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
but we also have the default KDE wallpaper >instead of the Debian one. Other than that the KDE live session is in >great shape. Hmmm. We had a problem with sddm quite a while back, and we fixed it. #865382. Is this a regression here, or has something else broken? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge,

Re: Replacing live-wrapper for live images by live-build?

2021-04-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
t;already clear that live-wrapper needs a replacement. > >Steve McIntyre wrote at that time: "The current live-wrapper code, and >vmdebootstrap, are both basically dead IMHO. I've suggested moving to >something else supported like FAI instead, like the Debian cloud images.

10.5.0 images published

2020-08-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
live installer has caused a bug that means it will not work on these Gnome images (both amd64 and i386). It works fine for the other live images. [1] https://www.debian.org/security/2020-GRUB-UEFI-SecureBoot/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com &

Re: Documenting the generation of the live images in Debian

2020-03-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi Roland! On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 05:27:55PM +0100, Roland Clobus wrote: >Hello Steve McIntyre, Eduard Bloch and lists, > >On 11/07/2019 12:21, Steve McIntyre wrote on debian-live: >> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 03:13:48PM +0700, Azure Zanculmarktum wrote: >>> Where can I

Re: Problem with EFI install custom Debian ISO

2020-01-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
es on my installer with live-build. This doesn't sounds anything like a "crash" to me. Instead, from what you're saying it sounds like a problem with live-build. You'll need to ask the debian-live folks for support with that, I'm afraid. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK

Re: Missing Firmware

2019-09-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 04:37:17PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >[ Please respond on the mailing lists - that way other people might > see things and help too. ] > >On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 12:43:19PM -0400, slow_sp...@att.net wrote: >>In lieu of any other response, I wanted

Re: Dropping older, less-secure checksums files

2019-07-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 03:58:13PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Hey folks, > >We currently make 4 different checksums files for installer, live and >openstack images published from cdimage.d.o (aka get.d.o, cloud.d.o): >MD5SUMS, SHA1SUMS, SHA256SUMS and SHA512SUMS. > >Prompt

Dropping older, less-secure checksums files

2019-07-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
now if you have a problem with that... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Google-bait: http://www.debian.org/CD/free-linux-cd Debian does NOT ship free CDs. Please do NOT contact the mailing lists asking us to send them to you.

Re: Scheduling 10.1 and maybe 9.10

2019-07-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
. Could be tricky! > - Auguest 31st > - September 7th Either of these would work for me. >We also have a point release of 9.10 to fit in some time - would the same >day or adjacent weekends be preferable? Happy to do a double-header again. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Debian Live source?

2019-07-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
-team/live-setup/blob/master/available/run-30live-wrapper as the core script. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead

Re: Testing release images - Call for help

2019-07-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
ter_release/debian-cd > > > Just two links are okay > https://get.debian.org/images/weekly-builds > https://get.debian.org/images/weekly-live-builds "As we build images during release day, they will appear ready for download." -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Testing release images - Call for help

2019-06-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
n Saturday. Those images should be *very* close to what's in the current weekly live build: https://get.debian.org/images/weekly-live-builds/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "When C++ is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb." -- Steven M. Haflich

Re: Fwd: debian buster (weekly build of 2019-04-22) ISO-Hybrid LXQt no gui on dell optiplex

2019-05-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
buntu and/or upstream, eg. >https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=916105) > >The [first] working system was used primarily as example; it's very >similar hardware (same model as one of the failed though it has >different external IO ports so yes it's different an

Re: Scheduling 9.9

2019-02-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 06:28:05PM +, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: >Hi, > >Please indicate your availablility out of: > > - April 13 > - April 20 (Easter weekend) I'm away on holiday for both of these, I'm afraid, and so is chief CD tester Andy. > - April 27 But

Bug#922251: live-build: support syslinux-efi as (additional) bootloader

2019-02-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
key used by shim (also, since syslinux does not seem to >support key verification on kernels, I guess there is no secure way to >get syslinux booting under secure boot without compromising secure boot, >but I might be missing an important point about SB here...). No, you're correct.

Bug#922251: live-build: support syslinux-efi as (additional) bootloader

2019-02-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Gah, missed this bit... ] On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 05:35:48PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: ... >Maybe Steve McIntyre can contribute an anecdote how he came to the >decision in debian-cd to use GRUB2 for EFI and thus to create the need >for two independent boot menu configurations. W

Bug#922251: live-build: support syslinux-efi as (additional) bootloader

2019-02-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
-uefi option, >Matthew J. Garrett equipped his Fedora ISOs by EFI software from GRUB2 >together with BIOS software from SYSLINUX. (Plus some HFS+ filesystem >image pointed to by an Apple Partition Map.) >Maybe Steve McIntyre can contribute an anecdote how he came to the >decision in

Re: Scheduling 9.7

2019-01-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
currently look free for me. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are forecast." Matthew

Re: Proposed changes to live-tasks

2018-12-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
desktop images? >Any objection if that's added? Go for it... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor, Integrity and Loyalty. Now you don't have to be a Caesar to concord the digital world while feeling safe and proud.

Re: Are Debian i386 ISOs produced on 32 bit systems ?

2018-12-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
s.guix.info/issue/33639 > >I now checked that debian-9.6.0-i386-DVD-1.iso and >debian-live-9.6.0-i386-xfce.iso are not truncated. (Whew.) > >So i wonder: >Are Debian's i386 ISOs produced on 32 bit systems ? >(Or is the job done on amd64 ?) Hi Thomas, All our images have been

Bug#913001: live-wrapper: Handle firmware list more robustly by using proper whitespace split

2018-12-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
nt to >strip + remove if empty), and splits on tabs and newlines. > >This makes human provided arguments be handled more robustly. >" Apologies for the delay. I've just pushed this change into git now. It'll also get picked up by our builds from t

Re: building scripts source

2018-12-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
directory for the live-customise script (for example). -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < liw> everything I know about UK hotels I learned from "Fawlty Towers"

Re: Question regarding current debian-live downloads

2018-11-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
aintaining our official live builds. I asked for help last summer, and although there's been some discussion, I've not seen much work yet. While I've continued to run our setup using live-wrapper and do tests when we do releases, I just don't have the time available to commit

Bug#909718: debian-live: it is a UEFI 32 only system.

2018-10-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
;re not 100% there yet. We already support 32-bit UEFI systems in general, but if something else is stopping you from disabling Secure Boot then that is a blocker *for now*. >or is Debian Linux Live friendly only for big customers with big hardware? I don't understand why you'

Re: Scheduling 9.6

2018-10-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Oct 06, 2018 at 05:24:47PM +0100, Adam Barratt wrote: >On Sun, 2018-07-29 at 08:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 09:29:22PM +0800, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: >> > On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 09:20:57PM +0800, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: >> > &

Bug#909718: debian-live: bootia32.efi + UEFI32 + SecureBoot => certificate error

2018-10-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
ust have SB disabled, or it's ignoring the lack of signature. Maybe it's booting in BIOS mode? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < Aardvark> I dislike C++ to start with. C++11 just seems to be handing rope-creating factories for users to hang multiple instances of themselves.

Re: Scheduling 9.6

2018-07-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
CDs; let's try for 28th September, and meanwhile we >> have schemed to fix the CD SPOF :) > >Um, that's Saturday 29th Sept of course. Debconf beer gd As mentioned to Jonathan IRL at DC18, that works better for me. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com There's no sensation to compare with this Suspended animation, A state of bliss

Re: Scheduling 9.6

2018-07-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
ideal) > - Sept 22nd Apologies, none of those work for me. I'm off to Vancouver for a VAC then conference trip, away all 3 weekends. :-/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I suspect most samba developers are already technically

Re: iBus pop-up on live images

2018-07-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
ould be lovely to fix if we can: * "Wastebaske t" in LXDE (icon title too long for the screen size?) * xfce asking about panel config at first startup * ... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane

Re: Missing the rescue CD image, what can I do?

2018-07-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 04:28:37PM +0100, Jose M Calhariz wrote: >On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 03:27:24PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> That's exactly it, yes. And be prepared to maintain the list >> as/when/if other people want changes. > >OK, I will. > >But let me

Re: Missing the rescue CD image, what can I do?

2018-07-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
D >+ This metapackage installs packages and documentation to support the Debian >+ live Rescue CD. That's exactly it, yes. And be prepared to maintain the list as/when/if other people want changes. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com You lock the door And throw away the key There's someone in my head but it's not me

Re: Missing the rescue CD image, what can I do?

2018-07-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
for our live builds to use. Once there's a task defined there and in the archive, we can add it in the live-setup repo [2] so it'll be built regularly alongside the images for the graphical desktops. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-tasks.git [2] https://salsa.debian.org:imag

Re: Scheduling 9.5

2018-06-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
9.5, we know that June 30th is a no-go, Debcamp >starts on July 21st and then Debconf on the 28th. So that leaves us with: > >- July 7th >- July 14th > >Are people available for either or both of those dates? Both look good for me, yup. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Bug#898995: live-wrapper: debian-live-9.4.0-amd64-xfce.iso image file is larger than its isosize

2018-06-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
Control tag -1 +pending On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 03:38:20PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >Hi, > >i wrote: >> Add to the xorriso run of live-wrapper the command >> >> -compliance no_emul_toc Added in git now, so should show up in builds from this point forwards. --

Re: Scheduling 9.5

2018-06-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
th the situation for a >short while, or do 9.5 before 8.11. In practical terms, that would >likely mean both 9.5 and 8.11 on June 23rd, freezing both next weekend. >How do people feel about that? That works ok for me. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "This dress doesn't reverse." -- Alden Spiess

Bug#900576: live-task-recommended: dependency on calamares brings in qt dependencies in every image

2018-06-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
t, or the named Uploader for this package. There was no bug >filed for this discussion either. Jonathan did ask about this on irc and I suggested he go ahead and experiment. Apologies - I should have told him to talk to you/Ana specifically as well. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Scheduling 9.5

2018-05-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
2nd (which may require an unusual SRM) Works for me. > - Jun 9th (getting quite a way out of cadence, but maybe that can't be > helped) Nope, away on VAC. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Arguing that you don't care about th

Re: Scheduling final Jessie point release, 8.11

2018-05-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
Jun Looks possible. > - (30th Jun I already know is impossible, for the sake of completeness) ACK :-) > - 7th July Looks possible. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I can't ever sleep on planes ... call it irrational if you like, but I'm afraid I'll miss my stop" -- Vivek Das Mohapatra

Re: Current Live Systems Manual still applies to Debian Stretch ?

2018-04-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
y mistakes through that script, does it still >applies to 9.4 ? The scripts we're using are in https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/live-setup/tree/master/available In particular, look at run-30live-wrapper and live-customise.sh. It's slightly obfuscated by the way things are built insi

Re: Reproducing unofficial weekly images?

2018-03-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
live-wrapper instead. The scripts we use are in the live-setup git repo: https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/live-setup/ There's complication in there due to the way we build inside a VM, but look at available/run-30livewrapper and available/live-customise.sh for the core of how we build thi

Re: oficial project files

2018-03-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
es-team/live-setup -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor, Integrity and Loyalty. Now you don't have to be a Caesar to concord the digital world while feeling safe and proud.

Re: New team on salsa, which repositories shall we migrate?

2018-02-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 08:28:55PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >On Fri, 09 Feb 2018, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> 10 repos moved now: > >I just noticed that you did not setup the email integration with the >package tracker and the hook tagpending. I just did this for all the >r

Re: New team on salsa, which repositories shall we migrate?

2018-02-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 08:12:49AM +0100, intrigeri wrote: >Hi, > >Steve McIntyre: >> 10 repos moved now: > >Thanks! > >> debian-live/debian-live live-team/debian-live > >This seems to be an old copy of the live-build repo. >Do we need it?

Re: Weekly livecd builds broken?

2018-02-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
; >> Please report the problem there. It needs attention. Hi Clemens, There was a problem on the build system and the regular build last Monday failed. We've reconfigured and I'm just doing a manual rebuild right now. Expect new images in a few hours. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com There's no sensation to compare with this Suspended animation, A state of bliss

Re: Scheduling 9.4

2018-02-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
rch 24 I'm away at a conference 15-25, so no for me. >- March 31 Likely to be awkward, with a big family celebration that weekend. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control.

Re: New team on salsa, which repositories shall we migrate?

2018-02-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 05:14:29PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >Hi, > >On Thu, 08 Feb 2018, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Happy to do that for all the other debian-live --> live-team repos too >> if people would like me to - just say so. I've done a couple of other > &

Re: New team on salsa, which repositories shall we migrate?

2018-02-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 06:34:40PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 06:22:14PM +, Iain Learmonth wrote: >> >>This is the spiritual predecessor to the live-tasks package that >>contained the live-build configurations used to build the live images &g

Re: New team on salsa, which repositories shall we migrate?

2018-02-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
be removed. NONONONO - the repo is still used for the live-build images we do for jessie point releases. I'll move it to salsa and update our config to point there. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I fe

Re: debian live (9.2.0) user? + no3d ...

2017-12-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
such combinations) to no avail. >All DL does is clearing the screen every 15 seconds and asking me >again. Apologies, you've been bitten by a bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=865382 This should be fixed with the new 9.3.0 release due this w

Bug#882769: Cannot upgrade from Stretch: cp: target '/lib/live/mount/medium/live/vmlinuz.new' is not a directory

2017-12-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
corner case and this bug does not affect the usability of >live-boot in the vast majority of cases. Besides, I would feel wrong >to see live-boot automatically removed from testing merely because of >this bug. So perhaps this could be demoted to severity:important? At best,

Re: Scheduling 9.3

2017-11-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
avoiding the >> festive >> season). >> >> Accordingly I'm looking at one of: >[...] >> 2nd December >> 9th December (but preferably earlier, or we start gradually extending >> the cycle) > >Those both look ok to me. Did we mak

Re: Multiarch live CDs

2017-11-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
overlap between packages (the -all .debs included). For a multiarch live image, and you'd end up having two complete, separate squashfs filesystems on the media. It's not something worth spending time on, IMHO. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.co

Re: Can we get a simple fix for #864927 into unstable/testing please?

2017-11-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
e live build problem. Doesn't like the best of ways, maybe? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters

Re: Padding and filesystem size in debian-live-9.2.0-amd64-cinnamon.iso

2017-11-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
to save 300 KiB of image file size: > > -padding 0 > >The command may be given at any position in the xorriso command list. ACK, thanks! I'll get this fixed up in live-wrapper. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Yes, of course

Re: Can we get a simple fix for #864927 into unstable/testing please?

2017-11-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 06:15:08PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >It's blocking KDE live builds at the moment... *tumbleweed* Two months later, we still have no fix for this "closed" bug anywhere except experimental. Any chance of this being properly fixed soon? -- Steve McInt

Re: Can I install from Stretch or Buster Mate Live System?

2017-10-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
have the >assistive technologies and orca screen readers set to run at start, will the >installed system have accessibility at start? There are options to install directly from the boot menu on those live images. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com

Re: Scheduling 9.3

2017-09-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
of: > >25th November >2nd December >9th December (but preferably earlier, or we start gradually extending > the cycle) > >Please advise your availability. The 25th is really difficult with the Cambridge mini-debconf that weekend, but the other two sho

Re: Scheduling 9.2

2017-09-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 03:20:05PM +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: >On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 09:31:22PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 04:48:14PM +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: >> >Hi, >> > >> >I'm working on dates for 9.2; by

Bug#866364: Partial implementation of live boot localisation

2017-09-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
t us know what live image you did use for your test. > >Where did you get it from? If its a custom image, what tool did you use >to build it? It's something that live-wrapper generates, so it's in the official Stretch images. Unfortunately, as we

Re: Scheduling 9.2

2017-08-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
at way there isn't a month >3 to try and fit in betweens. So every other stable update will also be an >oldstable. WFM. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed?

Re: Please consider to let live-build add file /.disk/mkisofs to the ISO

2017-08-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
changes in live-build. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane...

Bug#865382: Possible solution of #865382

2017-07-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
ed, if one starts the system with "nottyautologin" boot option, the > issue vanishes, and it becomes possible to > successfully log in after typing the default live user password. > >I've attached a patch for live-config which adds SDDM configuration script

Re: zsync support for jessie but not for stretch

2017-07-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
nc2017-07-23 15:04 1.4M > >It saves bandwidth! Does it work well? We tried zsync for the installer images some time ago, and it didn't work too well at the time and I disabled it again. IIRC there were issues with the redirects and the setup we use on cdimage.d.o (aka get.d

Bug#865382: [st...@einval.com: Please help with #865382]

2017-07-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 03:30:24PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 11:17:54AM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer >wrote: >>On viernes, 21 de julio de 2017 15:00:46 -03 Steve McIntyre wrote: >>[snip] >>> >I have taken a look at #86538

Bug#869379: Images created without pulling in from 'updates' and 'security' repos

2017-07-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
by >vmdebootstrap. Yes, it's the obvious workaround. As discussed with Phil in IRC, on a system installed from the live images updates and security are enabled appropriately so they're fine. I'm not sure of the best approach for *live* live images - will people be mass

Re: Topic of this list (was: live-build: how to include .deb files not in any repository?)

2017-07-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
gh - that's getting very old now... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < Aardvark> I dislike C++ to start with. C++11 just seems to be handing rope-creating factories for users to hang multiple instances of themselves.

Bug#865382: [st...@einval.com: Please help with #865382]

2017-07-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 11:17:54AM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: >On viernes, 21 de julio de 2017 15:00:46 -03 Steve McIntyre wrote: >[snip] >> >I have taken a look at #865382 (CCing) but I see no further info. Is there >> >a backtrace available? >&g

Bug#865382: [st...@einval.com: Please help with #865382]

2017-07-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 11:23:29PM -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: >On miércoles, 19 de julio de 2017 22:51:22 -03 Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Stuart suggested I was asking on the wrong list, so forwarding here... > >Right :-) > >> From: Steve McIntyre &

Re: Topic of this list (was: live-build: how to include .deb files not in any repository?)

2017-07-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
uild] ...'. What do you think? I don't think we necessarily need to split the list, but at least making it very clear in the subject line sounds like a good plan. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I suspect most samba developers are

Re: RFS: live-wrapper/0.6+nmu2

2017-07-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
: > >https://kathenas.org/debian/package_uploads/ > >Signing key: > >https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=philwyett%40k >athenas.org&fingerprint=on In incoming now, and imported on my master branch ready for pushing as soon as I've got git access

Bug#864955: live-boot: Non ASCII chars aren't displayed correctly

2017-07-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
it's not selecting an appropriate keyboard layout, either under X or on the console To get all this *right* will be a major undertaking, I think. We *could* simply add a default keyboard layout to the setup for each language as well, but that's quite likely to be wr

Re: Latest master code tree for live-wrapper

2017-07-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
a deliberate oversight, I've just not taken it yet. I was working directly on the code changes in live-wrapper rather than the packaging thus far. I'll make sure that all is merged... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Getting a SCSI cha

Re: Please help with #865382

2017-07-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ CC to the right list this time, gah ] Phil wrote: >-=-=-=-=-=- > >On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 00:04 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Hey folks, >> >> We have a big problem with our Stretch KDE live images, and the >> problem seems to be KDE-specific. None of th

Re: Latest master code tree for live-wrapper

2017-07-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
0.7 release out shortly... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Because heaters aren't purple!" -- Catherine Pitt

Please help with #865382

2017-07-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Let's see if this works better without a typo in the To: line... :-( ] Hey folks, We have a big problem with our Stretch KDE live images, and the problem seems to be KDE-specific. None of the other desktops show the same problem. Can you help please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridg

Please help with #865382

2017-07-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey folks, We have a big problem with our Stretch KDE live images, and the problem seems to be KDE-specific. None of the other desktops show the same problem. Can you help please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes fro

Re: Scheduling 9.1, maybe 8.9

2017-07-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
ne of those should work for me. Working out which is currently blocking >on other people. :| Can we get a decision please? Summer weekends are busy... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Arguing that you don't care about the right to priva

Re: Use of '--sudo' in vmdebootstrap; live-wrapper package

2017-07-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 01:10:33AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Phil wrote: >> >>In a previous mail I mentioned removal of '--lock-root-password'. >> >>On the same line (36) of 'vm.py' is the argument passed to >>'vmdebootstrap' of &#

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