Some sponsor please! grub-loopback-iso should be really useful for service desk and system administrators, if it's open to boot more distros than Finnix.
Narcis Garcia __________ I'm using this dedicated address because personal addresses aren't masked enough at this mail public archive. Public archive administrator should fix this against automated addresses collectors. El 14/5/20 a les 22:32, Ryan Finnie ha escrit: > [Copying both debian-live and debian-derivatives, as while this is > mostly an introduction to debian-live, it's of interest to > debian-derivatives as well.] > > Greetings! I am the creator of Finnix, a sysadmin-focused console > utility LiveCD which has been around since 2000 (and based on Debian > since 2005), and today released Finnix 120[0] after a 5 year hiatus[1]. > > Previous versions of Finnix were based on a bespoke build system, but > for Finnix 120, I used live-build (specifically the updated version in > sid) with new inserted Finnix-specific hooks. For example, for divert > e.g. os-release (though I understand there is work in progress to make > distro information in base-files programatic), to give a root getty > instead of a user, to build SSH keys when ssh.service is started as > opposed to on boot, etc. But for the most part, it's live-build with a > custom package set and Finnix branding. > > Anyway, after release, a friend came to me and asked if I planned on > updating grub-finnix, an old GRUB hook which allowed for Finnix ISO > booting. I was about to reply that that's been obsolete for years and > that they should just use grub-loopback-iso since nearly everything > supports the loopback.cfg standard... But then realized 1) I wrote > grub-loopback-iso as the successor to grub-finnix, and 2) for some > reason I never finished getting it upstreamed. > > The original ITP, Bug #693774 has been unarchived and reopened[2], I've > updated grub-loopback-iso to remove some assumptions since 2012 (EFI! > Hybrid ISOs!) and brought up to modern lintian --pedantic[3], tested > (confirmed it works fine with all debian-live-based setups), and > uploaded to mentors.debian.net[4]. > > As I am a DM and not a full DD, would anybody be willing to sponsor > grub-loopback-iso? > > Thanks, > Ryan Finnie > > [0] https://blog.finnix.org/2020/05/14/finnix-120-released/ > [1] Yes, I will update the Derivatives census before pabs yells at me. :) > [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=693774 > [3] https://github.com/finnix/grub-loopback-iso-pkg > [4] https://mentors.debian.net/package/grub-loopback-iso >
