Hi,
Ticket: todo/palimpsest:_do_not_make_Tails_USB_unbootable
(updated and tagged todo/qa locally, can't push right now as the
live website is locked / being rebuilt).
Merged into experimental, candidate for 0.17.2 and 0.18
=> please review & merge into stable and devel.
Note that this changeset is needed by bugfix/writable_boot_media.
Due to a bug in parted, udisks users (GNOME Disk Utility,
tails-persistence-setup...) reset the system partition's attributes
when manipulating the partition table, e.g. when creating or deleting
a second partition.
We've been working around this in t-p-s with sgdisk calls, that are
now proven to be problematic as highlighted by anonym in his email
about boot medium permissions.
So, I propose we:
* ship a parted package that has the patch backported from Wheezy to
fix this bug at its roots
* remove the sgdisk-based workaround in t-p-s
* drop the obsolete dependency from liveusb-creator on
python-parted, to avoid having to backport that one too (see
Debian changelog for parted 2.3-12 for details)
All this was implemented in
bugfix/udisks-do-not-make-Tails-USB-unbootable. It works for me:
* I still can install Tails on USB, boot from USB, setup
persistence, reboot, delete persistent volume, reboot. One can
check with sgdisk that the bootable flag is still here.
* I now can install Tails on USB, boot from USB, create a partition
with GNOME Disk Utility, reboot.
Note that even with the parted bugfix in place, only the bootable flag
is preserved, not the 3 non-critical other ones we set, but I consider
they're merely bonus, so I'm ignoring this for now (and actually,
I doubt we can ever do better without patching parted, which does not
seem worth it, so I'm not even filing a ticket about it).
Most of the changes are in the APT repository, t-p-s Git repo and
liveusb-creator repo, so reviewers should inspect these in addition to
the minor commit in our main Git repo.
Cheers,
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