Hello Andi, list, On 21/06/2023 20:57, Andreas B. Mundt wrote:
with the bookworm live images, the format of the .disk/info file on
the iso images has been modified, for example:
bullseye:
# mount -o loop debian-live-11.2.0.amd64-kde+nonfree.iso /mnt
$ cat /mnt/.disk/info
Official Debian GNU/Linux Live 11.2.0 kde 2021-12-18T13:54
bookworm:
# mount -o loop debian-live-12.0.0.amd64-gnome.iso /mnt
$ cat /mnt/.disk/info
Debian GNU/Linux 12 "Bookworm" - Official Snapshot amd64 LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20230610-08:51
The problem: There is no way to find the image flavour
(gnome/kde/standard) of the image from .disk/info, it's identical for
all images.
That kind of information is available during the build, and is available after building at another location: in `live/filesystem.packages` there is a line with `live-task-kde` for KDE. With bookworm the tool to build the live images was changed from live-wrapper to live-build, hence the change.
Do you know whether there is some standard for the .disk folder? I see a few options:1. It would be very easy to add a new file `.disk/variant` which contains 'gnome', 'kde', 'standard' (for text-only). 2. Changing the content of `.disk/info` globally would affect all Debian-derivatives that are currently using live-build already, and unless they speak up, I would rather not change that. 3. Setting the content only for the official Debian builds would be an option, which needs a new commandline option to lb_build.
My personal preference is 3, 1, 2.Perhaps the debian-cd team can chime in as well, especially for option 3, which will change the content for the live images for 12.1 compared to 12.0.
Now, di-netboot-assistant uses the information provided in .disk/info to generate live netboot (ipxe/grub) boot menu entries for live images.
Are you interpreting the lower case text into something nicer (e.g. Cinnamon, KDE, text-only)? This question is more-or-less a question to see how easy changes can be made on the other side :-)
In total, there are 8 images generated for amd64 [1]. With kind regards, Roland Clobus [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/bt-hybrid/
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