-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05.07.2017 21:18, Josh Branning wrote: > On 05/07/17 19:45, Joshua Haase wrote: >> Mladen Pejaković <mladen.pejako...@puri.sm> writes: >> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> 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/
I'll try to answer to multiple questions at once. First to clear things a bit: we do not want to fork Parabola GNU/Linux. We find it great as it is and we want to provide it to our customers AS IT IS. Since we are more leaned towards Debian GNU/Linux, we are using our PureOS (derivative of Debian but GNU FSDG compliant - or at least that's what we are trying to accomplish) as our base system. Bottom of line: we simply want to get the official ISO image from your website and "burn" it (with `dd` or something like that) to an USB key. If you have other suggestion for us regarding this, we are listening. Parabola GNU/Linux will be optional, on an USB key, charged only a small fee for the device itself (we don't intend to have any margins here). Cheers, - -- Mladen Pejaković Purism support -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQGcBAEBAgAGBQJZXWhrAAoJEGrVr2/cwWYZigUMAJ0JgOq8Akqgrr2qMSGYFaxx /pyzpuQ64PEWfTcIXOgvdDtMXsUGixfxvG6WfJM6wZgq1IPL/EXVrC26SKYL+P9z r/WBKGG7g52NfFXlpcTOSIflQ6Tw9WdWVMPJAAccs3BkeOlvOgJb3pWEkvWgFznR M1/UYYldzhmw6yOo8Y/ZyVUFTnd0rn4hiSiwttDVBDk40EYGKidYrioXUQE74DKk 0ElETGaXkDjz6C1r+77GVpakwNOCpgel1yDAoUHOlgCqNP7qA9UohOC78O+KZNAZ ddAI8YFEtDtVge//oVzIqX4dStwfui8N/V+dCveaBfflEDt11kfgFLu14RJacrUl I9ySqgQVkQ/rTAFXJZGZqLXOABpjbYLWQbrt+RnxU+QaV4HUkxwWxhY2gfKPdZ6l AoDe+88UypxsTk5X6PGQbWIunObLfuoBXFiCM7mE70T25cwup8e9kjnVnLMnqxyz PCBUsxh2KYO4XGYG293UdqevNVIlGXfwdfCS62rJkg== =bhdY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@lists.parabola.nu https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
