Re: Finnix introduction, grub-loopback-iso RFS
Some sponsor please!
grub-loopback-iso should be really useful for service desk and system
administrators, if it's open to boot more distros than Finnix.
Narcis Garcia
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El 14/5/20 a les 22:32, Ryan Finnie ha escrit:
> [Copying both debian-live and debian-derivatives, as while this is
> mostly an introduction to debian-live, it's of interest to
> debian-derivatives as well.]
>
> Greetings! I am the creator of Finnix, a sysadmin-focused console
> utility LiveCD which has been around since 2000 (and based on Debian
> since 2005), and today released Finnix 120[0] after a 5 year hiatus[1].
>
> Previous versions of Finnix were based on a bespoke build system, but
> for Finnix 120, I used live-build (specifically the updated version in
> sid) with new inserted Finnix-specific hooks. For example, for divert
> e.g. os-release (though I understand there is work in progress to make
> distro information in base-files programatic), to give a root getty
> instead of a user, to build SSH keys when ssh.service is started as
> opposed to on boot, etc. But for the most part, it's live-build with a
> custom package set and Finnix branding.
>
> Anyway, after release, a friend came to me and asked if I planned on
> updating grub-finnix, an old GRUB hook which allowed for Finnix ISO
> booting. I was about to reply that that's been obsolete for years and
> that they should just use grub-loopback-iso since nearly everything
> supports the loopback.cfg standard... But then realized 1) I wrote
> grub-loopback-iso as the successor to grub-finnix, and 2) for some
> reason I never finished getting it upstreamed.
>
> The original ITP, Bug #693774 has been unarchived and reopened[2], I've
> updated grub-loopback-iso to remove some assumptions since 2012 (EFI!
> Hybrid ISOs!) and brought up to modern lintian --pedantic[3], tested
> (confirmed it works fine with all debian-live-based setups), and
> uploaded to mentors.debian.net[4].
>
> As I am a DM and not a full DD, would anybody be willing to sponsor
> grub-loopback-iso?
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan Finnie
>
> [0] https://blog.finnix.org/2020/05/14/finnix-120-released/
> [1] Yes, I will update the Derivatives census before pabs yells at me. :)
> [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=693774
> [3] https://github.com/finnix/grub-loopback-iso-pkg
> [4] https://mentors.debian.net/package/grub-loopback-iso
>
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