Hello Simon, Andy, all,
On 22/11/2025 17:22, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Andy, all, I seem to have resolved the boot splash image...
I was offline for the last two weeks. Let me give you some additional
pointers:
* 'The boot screen looks ugly'. I think you are referring to the 'work
in progress' image with the hard hat. See the 'rebuild.sh' script [1],
which solves it similar to what you have done.
* Andy wrote: 'this is the bit that isn't working for me'. I've moved
the splash screen handling to its own file [3]. Perhaps that will work
for you too.
* 'Is there a better way to have the free firmware-* packages
pre-installed'. If you look at the 'rebuild.sh' script [1] the variable
`FIRMWARE_ARCHIVE_AREA` is set. If you leave that empty, you'll avoid
including the non-free firmware but still include the free firmware.
* 'After first boot, the installed OS does not have any apt sources
configured'. I assume you ran the installer from the boot menu. The
openQA test [3] shows that only the CDROM entry is in the installed system.
* 'The installer doesn't run tasksel'. You are using the
'live-installer' variant, which copies the live image to the HD and then
strips it a bit. If you want to have the regular installation, you would
want to have `--debian-installer netinst` in the `lb config` (untested).
Note that the installer on the live images has been a long standing
source of confusion... If you were to do the netinst-like installation,
users who have downloaded the big GNOME image will download all packages
again while doing the fresh install.
* 'I see some references to arm support'. There is full ARM support,
however on openQA we currently have no ARM workers and cross-building
ARM live images on x86_64 hardware takes really long, so there are also
currently no official ARM live image being published.
* You want to officially publish the generated images (as I see on
debian-devel), are you ready to the the quality assurance of them?
Keeping up with all nine versions (times four, for oldstable, stable,
testing and sid) keeps our openQA instance [2] rather busy.
Luckily, given that the test environment in openQA currently does not
contain any firmware-specific simulated hardware, all existing tests
would probably show exactly the same output if the Libre images were to
be tested.
How many image variants are you planning to publish? You are currently
at 3 sizes time 2 architectures.
With kind regards,
Roland Clobus
[1]
https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/blob/master/test/rebuild.sh
[2] https://openqa.debian.net/
[3] https://openqa.debian.net/tests/465609#step/complete_install/20
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