Re: Demand for Debian Live with newer kernel

[Michal Suchanek <hramrach@gmail.com>]

Hello,

On 31 December 2015 at 15:40, Iain R. Learmonth <irl@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:20:44AM +1100, Michael . wrote:
>>    Iain, many people want a stable release on newer hardware so they do
>>    need a newer kernel to support the hardware. Your testing release does
>>    not fit all use cases and the suggestion made by Mutlu is worthwhile
>>    and if I may just add it is achievable in live-build.
>
> As you say, it is achievable with live-build, so for those that need this
> image they can create one themselves.
>
> For every image produced there is extra workload for creating the
> configurations and for the testing of those images to ensure they're working
> correctly.
>
> One option I would be happy to explore for stretch would be to include the
> kernel from stable-backports in the stable images alongside the stable
> kernel, and you can choose to use the newer kernel from the boot menu if you
> wish, although this will need discussion as it would mean adding the
> stable-backports repository to the stable images and we would need to be
> sure that this wouldn't have any negative effects.

I build such images. I use patches for live-build that allow including
multiple kernels without the live-build part that generates the
syslinux menus choking.

You can use pinning to avoid installing from backports by default and
a hook script to install any number of kernels you like. In fact I
install kernels from sid but installing the ones from backports would
work the same way.

I can post the patches somewhere if there is interest in including them.

They are against the shell script and were not accepted because that
part of live-build was supposed to be rewritten in python.

Thanks

Michal