On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:57:23 +0100 Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> wrote: > Hi Neil, > > Neil Williams wrote: > > I'm wondering about how DebianLive! > > we spell it 'Debian Live' or 'debian-live', i'm just pointing it out > since you're consistently writing it 'DebianLive!' :) Oops. sorry. I've corrected the Emdebian website too. > > could support Emdebian Grip. > > sure. first, live-helper needs to support it through --mode emdebian. > that way, you can do lh_config -m emdebian and all emdebian specific > defaults are preset. > that's pretty easy, going to gather all defaults i can find and will > add them tomorrow. Excellent - thanks. > > 1. Grip probably won't support a full GNOME install > > 2. equally, KDE will also be dropped - at least initially > > i don't think this is any problem, for our default *-desktop images, > we don't install packages by hand but relay on tasksel (or aptitude, > if choosen in the config). > > do you treat tasks specially in emdebian? if not, do you want to > specify own packageslists or ignore the debian lists completely? Initially, we'll probably only have one task - XFCE. In time, we'll add some GNOME packages and some KDE packages but if people want a small system, the complete GNOME and KDE tasks are too big anyway. Maybe that arrangement would work best with a couple of tweaked package lists - when we get to that point. > > 3. there is a bug in cdebootstrap at the moment that fails to accept > > the emdebian archive key even though this key has been successfully > > added via apt-key. > > well, live-helper uses debootstrap by default. live-magic not, but > until live-magic can call live-helper accordingly to build emdebian > images, probably cdebootstrap is fixed by then. Excellent - debootstrap is fine. For live-magic, the --keyring option does work for cdebootstrap, maybe that can be embedded into the config? I'll look at getting cdebootstrap fixed too. > > Using Emdebian grip I get a chroot of 78Mb. > > Using normal Debian I get a chroot of 166Mb. > > nice ;) Thanks. :-) I've yet to see just how this pans out across a complete installation and whether we can keep up that 50% reduction. I'd be happy with anything over 33% for the final system (with a handful of locales supported instead of the normal 90 in Debian). -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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