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Bug#446731: live-helper: lenny usb-hdd image doesn't boot anymore



On 15/10/07 at 16:58 -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 10:09:04PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > On 15/10/07 at 21:09 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> > > Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > > > Why not stop in that case?
> > > 
> > > because it would unecessarily block people with custom kernels.
> > 
> > I'm not sure I understand how: people with custom kernels could just set
> > LH_LINUX_PACKAGES to "", no?
> > 
> > Also, I really think that this bug should stay serious as long as
> > unionfs is the default, since it renders live-helper unusable by
> > default. I recommended debian-live to a friend of mine, and because of
> > this bug, his experience with it was obviously very disappointing.
> Why serious?  (I'm not questioning serious vs. grave although I think
> seroius is typically for policy violations).
> 
> If it were a regression I would agree.

It is a regression in the sense that running lh_build used to build a
working image, and running it now on my unionfs config generates a
broken image.

> Do you just want people to know that the code is in a state of high flux?

I understand that debianlive is under heavy development. But in that
specific case, I really don't see why it doesn't fail in a clean way,
instead of generating a broken image.
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