Hello, I've added support for building Debian Live ISOs to Consfigurator, the new configuration management and OS installation system I've been working on. It looks something like this to use: (localhd (disk:debian-live-iso-built. nil "/srv/live/live.iso" (os:debian-stable "bullseye" :amd64) (apt:mirror "http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian") (apt:standard-sources.list) (apt:installed "live-config" "initramfs-tools" "task-english" "some-useful-package") (timezone:configured "America/Phoenix") (on-change (etc-default:set "keyboard" "XKBLAYOUT" "gb") (cmd:single "update-initramfs" "-u")) (locale:selected-for "en_GB.UTF-8" "LANG" "LANGUAGE"))) Here, 'localhd' is shorthand for becoming root and applying properties to localhost. Hopefully it is clear what the rest of the lines mean. The main value propositions over live-wrapper are - customising the contents of the chroot using declarative configuration management rather than shell scripting (in some cases you can replace live-config too) - automatic image rebuilds when, and only when, the contents of the chroot actually changes -- Consfigurator has a protocol for propagating information about whether it had to make any changes to bring reality in line with the stated configuration of hosts -- this makes it easy to maintain and update customised live images on your laptop - doesn't use the deprecated vmdebootstrap. I've only implemented a straightforward ISOLINUX boot option for now, because I am not myself at all familiar with the Debian installer and the intricacies of multiboot ISOs. But all that could be added. Or Consfigurator could replace just the vmdebootstrap & shell script parts of live-wrapper, if that's wanted; I could help slot it in. I can't upload this work to unstable yet because a new dependency is stuck in NEW; my development version in git should be usable if you would like to try it out: <https://spwhitton.name/tech/code/consfigurator/> install the deps of cl-consfigurator in sid + this new library: <https://salsa.debian.org/common-lisp-team/agnostic-lizard> -- Sean Whitton
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