On Friday, August 26, 2016 at 5:23:09 AM UTC+2, Drew White wrote: > On Thursday, 25 August 2016 07:25:20 UTC+10, Andrew David Wong wrote: > > These probably aren't what you're looking for, but since you didn't say that > > you've already read these documents, and since they're relevant to the > > topic, > > I'll share the links here in case they happen to contain some information > > that > > is relevant to you: > > > > https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-template-configs > > https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/building-non-fedora-template/ > > https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/building-archlinux-template/ > > Hi Andrew, > > You are correct, they are relevant. Yes, I have already read them the last > time I asked this question and someone linked me those. > > I was hoping for a new resolution and an actual answer, not a link to > something that does not have any information on what I'm asking. > > What you linked me are instructions on how to, not what I am needing to know. > > I don't want to download all that and more and do many things just to find > out that in the last 1% of it all that it won't work because I have to > install something first, or a different version. > > The main reason I'm asking what the prerequisites are is to know EXACTLY what > the MINIMAL requirement is to be able to get it running on Qubes. > > I can't use a no-gui option on the VM that is a CLI and then access it via > the console commands without it having the Qubes tools installed in it. > > In my OP I did say > "I still can't find any documentation on it that accurately tells me what I > want to know" > and > "Pretty much all the packages that are REQUIRED as a minimum to get it all to > work." > > This is what I'm after, not instructions. > > I'm trying to build a template, and the instructions there are not detailed > enough to tell me what I want and need to know, because I'm not an "end-user" > I'm a developer and a technician by trade. I like things to be cleaner and > more efficient than they currently are in some of the templates, including > the "minimal" templates, which aren't exactly minimal, since they are missing > things that are NEEDED and they have things that shouldn't be there as a > "minimal". (In my opinion at least) > > So by knowing WHAT is required, I will know what it is that I can turn into a > Template with Qubes integration.
>From reading through the qubes-devel list a bit, I'm fairly sure that what you >ask for simply does not exist in a central location, because the few devs >there are have different priorities, and nobody else has stepped up to the >plate yet. Having said that, you can probably get an impression of what is >involved by reading the reports by the people who had a go at building the >archlinux and debian templates there; which involved quite a bit of trial & >error, as is obvious from the email chains. There are more exchanges to be >found, but these two seem relevant: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/qubes-devel/archlinux$20template|sort:relevance/qubes-devel/Jdqd_Cn1Gwg/FpgNBoVa6S0J https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/qubes-devel/archlinux$20template|sort:relevance/qubes-devel/CB30pD5J56U/TmpIrj8yhswJ Your (only) other option is probably to have a look at the builder.conf etc. files for e.g. the archlinux template (or the debian template from qubes), and go from there. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/ffdf8434-2236-4aad-ab3c-3f9c3f1183b2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
