Hello lists,here is the 18th update of the status for reproducible live-build ISO images [1].
Single line summary: Live images are looking good, and the number of (passed) automated tests is growing
Reproducible status:* All major desktops build reproducibly with bullseye, bookworm, trixie and sid
My activities in March, April, May, June: * Non-free-firmware is added, the images are reproducible * The live images are generated officially by Debian * Better support for UEFI secure boot in live-build [10] * Stabilising the tests in openQA [6][7][9] * New test in openQA: the Calamares installer [8] * The live images have less authentication prompts (pending) [2] * A little bug triaging Work to be done:* More investigation is required to provide long-term reproducibility, because the live image will be generated without using a snapshot server * Test the official images and regular snapshot images in openQA as well as the images generated by Jenkins (possibly replacing the images generated by Jenkins)
* Review the results of the generated ISO images in my local openQA instance * Adjust 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 ** The additional firmware has made the live images much larger** All locales are present in the live image, but they are not activated, which results in a silly GNOME welcome screen [3]
** The .disk/info file must be made similar to the 11.x series [4] * Bug triaging for issues reported against live-build * Many other things. I'll update the current TODO page [5] With kind regards, Roland Clobus [1] https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleInstalls/LiveImages [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1037295 [3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2023/06/msg00017.html [4] https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2023/06/msg00023.html [5] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/TODO [6] https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/merge_requests/308 [7] https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/merge_requests/309[8] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/openqa/openqa-tests-debian/-/merge_requests/27 [9] https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/merge_requests/306, https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/merge_requests/305, #1023472
[10] https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/merge_requests/304
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