Re: live-manual is marked for autoremoval from testing

2022-04-04 Thread Luca Boccassi
go for option 3. > What's your opinion? > > With kind regards, > Roland Clobus We really want to ship documentation in the distribution, it's needed for accessibility, offline usage, and so on. Kind regards, Luca Boccassi

Re: Porting the standard image from live-wrapper to live-build

2020-11-17 Thread Luca Boccassi
1 Nov 2020, Roland Clobus wrote: <...> > > live-build: > > * /EFI/boot contains a 32-bit EFI image on the amd64 iso. > > ** AP: Is this needed/correct? > > Pass, I don't know. IIRC yes - it's rare, but I think there is hardware out there with 32bit EFI and 64bit CPUs.

Re: Add data partition to a livecd on Windows

2020-03-18 Thread Luca Boccassi
debian.org/ Alternatively, patches can be sent to this very same mailing list. Alternatively, bugs can be opened against the relevant packages, with patches attached. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#953957: [live-build] W: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file '.dsc' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)

2020-03-15 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Sun, 2020-03-15 at 18:20 +, jnq...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sun, 2020-03-15 at 11:34 +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > The reason I asked for the change and I wasn't comfortable with > > making > > the download directory 777 is that live-build is routinely used in >

Bug#953957: [live-build] W: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file '.dsc' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)

2020-03-15 Thread Luca Boccassi
the risk of a rogue, unprivileged process to be able to mess with the downloaded files after apt has ran, if it's just to fix a harmless warning. If it can be fixed without introducing risk - great! If not, I would recommend to document it and leave it. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [live-build] "E: Unable to find a source package for syslinux,grub-efi"

2020-03-15 Thread Luca Boccassi
mentation might look bigger, but it's probably faster, > which > might matter in some situations, and avoids calling outside > utilities. > > This isn't a shell scripting mailing list, but FWIW here's yet > another > way. It's been tested on dash and posh, but does the work in a > subshell > which is fine if you just want to echo strings but won't allow you > to > set variables. It's a function: > > echo_strings()( > local loader > IFS=, > set -- $* > for loader > do > echo "$loader" > done > ) > > LB_BOOTLOADERS='first bootloader,second one' > echo_strings "$LB_BOOTLOADERS" > first bootloader > second one > > But the pipe to tr is probably fine for this case. Risking to state the obvious: if this snippet is ran once at setup, then keep it readable, short and maintainable. If it's in the "hot path" and ran a gazillion times per build, then by all means optimize away - but document it clearly. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#928096: systemd does not play well with nfs root - unable to shutdown/reboot

2019-06-05 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Wed, 2019-06-05 at 11:56 +0200, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote: > On 4/28/19 8:14 PM, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > If you have tried with debian live iso too, I don't think this has > > anything to do with live-build? > > Isn't debian live iso made using live-build? > Unfortunatel

Bug#928840: boot hangs forever at live-config when libnss-systemd in image

2019-05-13 Thread Luca Boccassi
e the pin in 'config/apt/preferences' > before running the 'make.sh' script): > > https://salsa.debian.org/smonaica-guest/sid-standard-live.git > > > Best regards, > -S.M. Hi, This has been reported upstream: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/12492 -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Please activate the pipelines in salsa.debian.org

2019-05-09 Thread Luca Boccassi
than live-boot and live-build, so I'll let other maintainers and collaborators comment on whether they'd like the CI activated. Thanks for your work! -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#928096: systemd does not play well with nfs root - unable to shutdown/reboot

2019-04-28 Thread Luca Boccassi
s from debian live iso > > I suppose the system cannot shutdown ethernet if the root is on nfs, > and nfs live mount cannot > be unmounted. > > I've seen around someone suggesting to make systemd ignore interface > shutdown problems If you have tried with debian live iso too, I don't think this has anything to do with live-build? -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Offer to help updating the manual

2019-04-08 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Sun, 2019-04-07 at 13:50 +0200, Roland Clobus wrote: > On 06/04/2019 20:22, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > Please feel free to send merge requests on Salsa: > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-manual > > > > Thank you accepting the first (tiny) merge

Re: Offer to help updating the manual

2019-04-06 Thread Luca Boccassi
ve-team/live-manual You can register a guest account here if you don't have one: https://signup.salsa.debian.org/register/guest/ -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#922251: live-build: support syslinux-efi as (additional) bootloader

2019-02-14 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Thu, 2019-02-14 at 18:35 +, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Thu, 2019-02-14 at 17:18 +0100, Matthijs Kooijman wrote: > > Hey Luca, > > > > > At a quick glance it all sounds good to me, although I can't say > > > I > > > have > >

Bug#922251: live-build: support syslinux-efi as (additional) bootloader

2019-02-14 Thread Luca Boccassi
ng a new option to disable this?). > > I just noticed that lb config has a --bootloaders that supports > *multiple* bootloaders, so that would be perfect way to support this. > E.g. --bootloaders syslinux,syslinux-efi to have combined image > (which > would also become the d

Bug#922251: live-build: support syslinux-efi as (additional) bootloader

2019-02-13 Thread Luca Boccassi
d at the iso version yet (which is also not my > primary interest, but I think it would be good to handle as well). > > Happy to hear any thoughts :-) > > Gr. > > Matthijs Hi, At a quick glance it all sounds good to me, although I can't say I have a lot of experience with syslinux. For feature parity, I'd encourage to look into supporting Secure Boot like the grub-efi implementation does, since we are preparing to ship that in Debian 10. It's not much extra work on top of adding the rest anyway. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: New install of Live Build on Buster E: debootstrap - command not found

2018-11-06 Thread Luca Boccassi
> everything was new. I purged the system of live-* packages and > > reinstalled them only to have the problem again. I have done the > > same > > thing this morning and still get the same issue. I will continue to > > work on it now I know it should be working and when I find w

Re: New install of Live Build on Buster E: debootstrap - command not found

2018-11-05 Thread Luca Boccassi
stretch/amd64 > system" > 2. Is there a clash with Live-build and debootstrap somewhere making > live-build not "see" debootstrap even though it is installed? > > > From memory live-build used to detect the version it was installed > > on > > and buil

Re: Unmet dependency with --backports=true on Debian stable

2018-11-05 Thread Luca Boccassi
of > network-manager-config-connectivity-debian in live-build, and how to > fix > the issue ? > > Best regards, > Thierry Hi, What configuration are you building with? I just tried a build with -- backports=true and it worked just fine. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Dead links throughout the packages and manual

2018-08-09 Thread Luca Boccassi
t; > Some content might still be found at https://github.com/debian-live.. > . > > On 09.08.2018 12:12, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > On Thu, 2018-08-09 at 11:54 +0200, Moritz Schlarb wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > while searching for all kinds

Re: Dead links throughout the packages and manual

2018-08-09 Thread Luca Boccassi
Thanks, Thanks, the migration was done quickly and crudely as Alioth was going away, I'm sure there's more broken stuff, if you find it please open more PRs. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#902992: live-build broken due subversion recommends

2018-07-06 Thread Luca Boccassi
given they are not installed. What is _exactly_ the problem, and how do you reproduce it? Are you sure you didn't set conflicting dependencies? > 2018-07-05 8:00 GMT-04:00 Luca Boccassi : > > On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 12:04:54 -0400 PICCORO McKAY Lenz > gmai > > l.com> wrote: &

Bug#902992: live-build broken due subversion recommends

2018-07-05 Thread Luca Boccassi
ith "--apt-recommends false" and recommends will not be installed. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#900688: live-tools: Needs to be adjusted to live-boot's new mountpoints

2018-06-03 Thread Luca Boccassi
point to provide backward-compatibility for Buster, so nothing should be broken for the moment. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: grub efi package on live-build

2018-05-03 Thread Luca Boccassi
ader install stage) fail wich "Cannot install grub-efi" > i search in the binary pool and the package do not exist. > > thanks! grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-ia32-bin grub-pc-bin -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Booting squashfs from local filesystem

2018-04-24 Thread Luca Boccassi
ing in the fs > root. > > Before I go crazy over the entangled variables, functions, and > branches in > /var/live/boot, is anyone on this list familiar enough with the > system to tell > me what would be the correct boot line here? > > Thank you very much. Have you tried findiso=/fs/path/to/stretch.squash ? -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Boot .iso with GRUB2

2018-04-05 Thread Luca Boccassi
containing a live file system How are you installing the ISO on the USB stick? Did you build the image yourself, if not where is it from? -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Accepted live-build 1:20180328 (source) into unstable

2018-03-28 Thread Luca Boccassi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 20:20:46 +0100 Source: live-build Binary: live-build Architecture: source Version: 1:20180328 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Live <debian-live@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Luca Boccas

Accepted live-boot 1:20180328 (source) into unstable

2018-03-28 Thread Luca Boccassi
ian-live@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> Description: live-boot - Live System Boot Components live-boot-doc - Live System Boot Components (documentation) live-boot-initramfs-tools - Live System Boot Components (initramfs-tools backend) Closes: 856482 8

Re: Adding support for ONIE to Debian Live

2018-03-23 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Fri, 2018-03-23 at 11:44 +, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Fri, 2018-03-23 at 08:27 +0800, Steven Shiau wrote: > > On 3/20/2018 AM 06:14, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > I hope this can be useful for others > > > > Yes, exactly! This is great! We recently need this feat

Re: Adding support for ONIE to Debian Live

2018-03-23 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Fri, 2018-03-23 at 08:27 +0800, Steven Shiau wrote: > On 3/20/2018 AM 06:14, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > I hope this can be useful for others > > Yes, exactly! This is great! We recently need this feature and you > have  > made it and share that. Cool! > BTW, did you

Adding support for ONIE to Debian Live

2018-03-19 Thread Luca Boccassi
script going forward with any future bug fix. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#886328: live-boot: Please use /run/live instead of /lib/live/mount

2018-03-13 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Tue, 2018-03-13 at 15:05 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2018, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > > Or maybe have a backward-compatible symlinks? > > > > > > This seems entirely reasonable. Can you work on this? > > > >

Bug#886328: live-boot: Please use /run/live instead of /lib/live/mount

2018-03-13 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Tue, 2018-03-13 at 10:49 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 12 Mar 2018, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > That is certainly the case for myself at $work - we have a lot of > > scripts to deal with installing images, I've tested it, > > and > > they all bre

Bug#892772: live-boot: do_netsetup fails to detect ip address with ifconfig

2018-03-12 Thread Luca Boccassi
opened a Merge Request on Salsa [1] with a fix from Sameer, a colleague of mine at $work. Thank you! -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi [1] https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-boot/merge_requests/3 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#892406: live-build: UEFI boot fails on SuperMicro dev board with AMI bios

2018-03-12 Thread Luca Boccassi
grub-team/grub/blob/master/debian/build-efi-images Using that image is necessary with Secure Boot as that's what gets signed. Ubuntu has the same workaround in place. -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#892406: live-build: UEFI boot fails on SuperMicro dev board with AMI bios

2018-03-09 Thread Luca Boccassi
-wrapper because my examples >   debian-live-8.4.0-i386-standard.iso >   debian-live-8.4.0-amd64-standard.iso > both tell >   Preparer Id  : LIVE-BUILD 4.0.5-1; HTTP://LIVE- > SYSTEMS.ORG/DEVEL/LIVE-BUILD > but bear only a single partition which marks the ISO 9660 filesystem. > &g

Bug#892406: live-build: UEFI boot fails on SuperMicro dev board with AMI bios

2018-03-08 Thread Luca Boccassi
for Secure Boot support, which has been implemented in a separate commit, in the same Merge Request. Thanks! -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi [1] https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/merge_requests/3 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#891206: live-build: using local offline mirrors fails due to regression

2018-02-23 Thread Luca Boccassi
.list. The proposed solution is to avoid running apt update in the chroot at the end of the chroot_archives remove step if the repository is local and has been umounted. A PR [2] has been opened on Salsa with the proposed fix. Please let me know if you'd like more information or a different sol