Bug#1050969: ITP: v-i -- An alternative Debian installer using vmdb2 and ansible
Control: owner -1 obbardc@debian.org
On Thu, 31 Aug 2023 21:01:53 +0100 Christopher Obbard <chris.obbard@collabora.com> wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Christopher Obbard <chris.obbard@collabora.com>
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, chris.obbard@collabora.com
>
> Package name : v-i
> Version : 0.4
> Upstream Contact: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
> URL : https://gitlab.com/larswirzenius/v-i
> License : GPL-3
> Programming Lang: Python, YAML
> Description : An alternative Debian installer using vmdb2 and ansible
>
> v-i installs a very basic Debian onto a PC. It's entirely
> non-interactive and unhelpful. The author wrote it so that repeated
> installations would be less of a chore than using the official Debian
> installer.
>
> v-i uses vmdb2 to install onto bare metal hardware.
> vmdb2 is a program to create a disk image virtual machines
> with Debian, by the same author. It "installs Debian" to a file
> representing a hard drive. It's basically debootstrap, except the
> target is a disk image instead of a directory. It's used to create
> Debian images for Raspberry Pis.
>
> I'd like to package this as part of the installer-team, but I haven't
> yet asked their permission or had any grace from them.
I've started packaging this at https://salsa.debian.org/debian/v-i
For now it's just the repository structure and basic boilerplate
packaging; nothing actually gets installed.
Comments welcome if you have any ideas on how the binary packages
should be split up.
I hope to get some time to go a bit further in the coming months.
Cheers!
Chris
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