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Re: live-build UEFI support: WAS: Re: Debian derivatives census: changes around Debian Live; live-build orphaned



Hi Paul,

On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 19:46 +1100, Michael . wrote:
> 
> > Just incase no one already know this there is a version of Live-Build 
> > that supports UEFI.
> > Kali Linux developer (also Debian Developer) Raphael Hertzog has
> > patched the current development branch of Live Build to add UEFI
> > support and it works brilliantly. To use it you must use the Kali
> > version of Live-Build from their repositories.
> 
> Mati, Raphael: would it be possible for you to merge the Kali
> live-build UEFI support into the Debian Live team's live-build
> repositories? 

Our work was submitted in
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=731709 but
I'm not fully happy with it. And in fact I'm contemplating
replacing it entirely with the GRUB2 based EFI support that
has been contributed in the same bug report more recently.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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