Hello lists,here is the 15th update of the status for reproducible live-build ISO images [1].
Single line summary: The live images stayed reproducible. Reproducible status: * All major desktops build reproducibly with bullseye, bookworm and sid* Number of patches performed by the live-build script that are not yet in sid: zero! (0)
My activities in November: * I've announced that live images can be generated again for Bookworm [10] ** I've received private replies, to be answered soon * First modifications in live-setup [11] ** Some changes have already been cherry-picked, more work is needed* Rebuild script has been adjusted to fix the red Jenkins tests for Bullseye [14][15]
* Minor Jenkins update [16] * Some more tests in openQA have been adjusted [12][13] Functionality: Findings found by openQA (for sid):* Several desktops (cinnamon, lxde, xfce, mate) now have the 'lpr' as a default printer, which adds many numbered 'Print to Test Printer NN' entries * KDE: The default background image type changed from svg to png (and therefore the background is black) (#1021816) * LXQT: Should choosing LXQt as DE really install both Kwin & Xfwm4? (#1023472)
* LXQT: Irrespective of which WM is chosen, the desktop crashes Work to be done: * Live images are not generated officially by Debian yet ** Needs additional changes in 'live-setup' ** This will be the next main target * Review the results of the generated ISO images in my local openQA instance * Add a test for the Calamares installer in openQA * Use a no-network scenario in openQA to test for 100% offline installation * Adjusting the content of the live-build image ** Make the boot menu more similar to the live-wrapper menu ** Add a 'persistent' option (as seen in Kali) ** Keep the accessibility improvements made in the live-wrapper boot menu ** Verify the package lists *** e.g. the Debian Reference is installed for es and it, but not enUnchanged, but low priority due to [7], patch available but not released yet:
* texlive-base: Reported differences in the generated ls-R [2] * texlive-binaries: Randomness in .fmt files due to Lua hash seeds [3]* texlive-binaries: updmap creates a logfile with the timestamps of files that it just has generated [4]
Future plans/ideas:* Reprotest might be used instead of just 2 builds without a short time frame, to capture more variations
* Use disorderfs* Transfer the special features of the (now disabled) live-wrapper live images to live-build
With kind regards, Roland Clobus [1] https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleInstalls/LiveImages [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1003449 [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1009196[4] https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/commit/f1a98e4da62c3551f523553c6e23774aaf5e41b4
[7] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1006472 [9] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2022/09/msg00199.html [10] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2022/11/msg00221.html [11] https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/live-setup/-/merge_requests/2[12] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/openqa/openqa-tests-debian/-/merge_requests/16 [13] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/openqa/openqa-tests-debian/-/merge_requests/17
[14] https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/merge_requests/293[15] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/jenkins.debian.net/-/commit/e237cab3ed87826b1c25b068b88fabcecf020d21 [16] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/jenkins.debian.net/-/commit/a9a967576104a38e45464d0f73544fd66df98aa8
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