Hi Roland On 2023/03/20 19:10, Jonathan Carter wrote:
On 2023/03/20 18:36, Roland Clobus wrote:FWIW, I've uploaded live-tasks-non-free-firmware that could be used to provide firmware packages for either desktops or servers. Control file here with more details: https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-tasks-non-free-firmware/-/blob/main/debian/controlI'm filing an unblock for it too, so that it can migrate to testing.Should the live images use those 2 meta-packages instead of the heuristic?I'm fine either way as long as the key packages makes its way on to the iso. Will install those metapackages on the latest iso and see what (if anything) extra gets installed.
Looks like your heuristic got it all! I don't think that this is at all bad, but I do think there might be an excessive amount of firmware by default now. For example, the dahdi firmware used by asterisk cards (probably unlikely most people will use them on Debian live media), 56k modem drivers, opsis firmware (although maybe video team might like that ;) ), etc. I was also thinking that if you're doing a desktop install, you could do an 'apt remove live-task-non-free-firmware-server ; apt autoremove' to remove a bunch of firmware that is unlikely to ever be used on a desktop/laptop. Of course, I think in the future this ultimately needs to be handled better in the installer.
For now this /does/ work. But we do end up with 740M of uncompressed firmware on the image, so at the very least I think we should circle back to this for Debian 13.
BTW, are you planning to change the syslinux config? I notice it still shows the construction cap.
-Jonathan