Hello lists,here is the eleventh update of the status for reproducible live-build ISO images [1].
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:
** non-Cinnamon: 0 Cinnamon: 1 [7] Functionality tests with openQA: * Last month I focussed on getting openQA tests for the live images [8][9] * The GNOME image is currently visible [10] * Current functionality tests are:** Try every single item from the boot menu (both for BIOS and UEFI non-secure boot) ** Run the Debian-installer and boot the resulting hard-disk image and start Firefox
** Start Firefox from the live image ** Install the CUPS PDF printer in the live image and verify its output** Start all major GNOME applications and verify that they start properly (which already finds a bug [11]) * In my local instance, these tests are running for XFCE as well (and passing)
* Current work in progress: ** Testing the Calamares installer ** Booting with UEFI secure boot** Automatic starting of the openQA tests, e.g. by an image from Jenkins or the image builder script
** Simulating diverse hardware (e.g. laptop, low-memory, no network, ...) ** Boot the ISO image as a USB-stick instead of a CDROM Work to be done: * Jenkins does currently not create ISO files that are tested by openQA** Soon the snapshot server will be running again (h01ger will be working on that during bornhack.dk)
** This will be my primary target during the next month * Functionality testing with openQA could be extended** Both in supporting more desktops (which is an ideal task for someone new to openQA) ** Or by adding completely new tests (which requires some more Perl and openQA knowledge) ** Please write to the debian-qa mailing list if you are interested on working on this
* Live images are not generated officially by Debian yet ** I'm entered some notes during the DebConf22 Debian Installer BoF [12] ** Needs some changes in 'live-setup'** After openQA has verified the images, the official images can be generated
** This will be my second target during the next month * 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 en * Figure out the actual timestamp of the snapshot** At this moment https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20220727T154516Z/ is the latest snapshot at snapshot.d.o ** But https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20220727T154516Z/dists/sid/InRelease says 'Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 14:20:47 UTC', which is not exactly the same timestamp
Unchanged, 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* Long term: When live-build images are working fine, the work could be extended to other images, e.g. the netinst images or perhaps even Docker images * Transfer the special features of the (now disabled) live-wrapper live images to live-build
* Start building official live-images again [6][12] 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
[5] Unreported, patch is in [4] [6] https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2022/03/msg00012.html [7] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1006472[8] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/openqa/openqa-tests-debian/-/merge_requests/9 [9] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/openqa/openqa-tests-debian/-/merge_requests/10
[10] https://openqa.debian.net/group_overview/14 [11] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/5180 [12] infinote://gobby.debian.org/debconf22/bof/debian-installer
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