[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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