Hello lists,here is the 21th update of the status for reproducible live-build ISO images [1].
Single line summary: Very near the finishing lineThe best wishes for 2024, may this year be the year of the reproducible live images for Debian :-)
Reproducible status:* All major desktops build reproducibly with bullseye, bookworm, trixie and sid ... ** ... provided they are built for a second time within the same DAK run (i.e. 6 hours) * Rebuilding the official bookworm images (standard and gnome) for 12.4.0 at any later moment ** Only one (new) difference is left: in the official images a directory /run/mount is present, which is not in my local build
* The other official bookworm images for 12.4.0 have not been evaluated yet Functionality status:* The sid images are affected by #1051607 (Calamares installation on UEFI Secure Boot systems fails to boot after installation) * The sid images occasionally report missing installation media, when booting from USB in UEFI non-secure boot systems (#1054325)
My activities in November, December:* A workaround in live-build [2] until the fix for the installer [3] is implemented (due to kernel 6.6.8) [4]
* An initial step for FST (File System Transposition) [5] * Fix for an undesired authentication prompt for calamares [6] * Proposed fixes for the calamares installer [7] * Minor updates to the openQA tests of the live images Work to be done:* Test the official images and regular snapshot images in openQA as well as the images generated by Jenkins (possibly replacing the images generated by Jenkins)
* Review the results of the generated ISO images in my local openQA instance * Adjust the content of the live-build image** Fix the remaining reproducible issue in time before 12.5.0 (planned for February 2024)
* Many other things. See the TODO page [8] With kind regards, Roland Clobus [1] https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleInstalls/LiveImages [2] https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/merge_requests/331 https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/merge_requests/332 https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/merge_requests/333[3] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/merge_requests/43
[4] https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2023/12/msg00095.html [5] https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/merge_requests/327 [6] https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/merge_requests/328[7] https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/calamares-settings-debian/-/merge_requests/3
[8] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/TODO
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