On 05/07/17 19:45, Joshua Haase wrote:
Mladen Pejaković <mladen.pejako...@puri.sm> writes:
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Hello Parabola community!
Now, to the point. Besides our PureOS (Debian based OS, without
non-free), we want to offer other distros as an option to our customers.
Those will come on an USB drive, with small fee just to cover the USB
cost and labour. We are considering to offer Parabola live install image
as well, therefore, we want to ask if this is okay with the Parabola
community?
I like the idea as long as the process is publicly documented and
reproducible.
AFAIK, the parabola build system isn't publicly documented and
reproducible as it currently stands. It would be great to see this
happen though.
I think there are/weree people working on a Live ISO for parabola.
The CLI version of parabola works fine as a live ISO. I don't know about
the MATE desktop version though.
Don't know whether a custom installer is needed
I am not a official developer, but I suggest either using the default
ISO, and building from (on top of) that (there's probably a way to
repack an ISO with modifications and/or scripts, I have done so before
with Debian, but never parabola [1]), or failing that taking a look at
parabolaiso [2] to completely rebuild a customised ISO.
(... I think Adonay was nudging for the former method.)
In both cases, the source code will need to be provided by puri.sm; most
liberally if you are to distribute, probably in the most practically
reproducible form where possible (build system), but also for the
binaries or machine code for the software you distribute (parabola).
I assume you are already doing this for the Debian based OS, so
shouldn't be too much of a problem for puri.sm to do the same for Parabola.
I think a good way to distribute the sources for projects like these,
would be to first set up a mirror from which you intend to distribute
them. As long as the mirror is in sync with the parabola servers, this
would be a good method or flow for [legally] constructing customised
free software operating systems in general, not just for parabola, but
other distros too. If the mirror is added to the list of parabola
mirrors, it would also go some way to reducing the load on the official
parabola servers. It would also mean that you could theoretically
continue to produce ISOs, even if the internet were to go down.
Enough said now,
Josh
[1] http://www.publicsite.org/J05HYYY/software_downloads/IonianMaker.tar.gz
[2] https://git.parabola.nu/~~obsolete/parabolaiso.git/
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