Hi fellow Tails developers, hi quidame!
intrigeri wrote (23 Mar 2013 18:02:08 GMT) :
> anonym wrote (20 Mar 2013 14:16:31 GMT) :
>> New commits in bugfix/writable_boot_media:
>> ae530a1 New fix for bugs/writable_system_disk:_belongs_to_floppy_group
>> 05c8cf6 Add a shell library for determining stuff about the boot device.
> Fixing t-p-s and the reasons behind its need for calling sgdisk is on
> it's way, but let's go parallel and do a first review pass on this
> bugfix/writable_boot_media branch.
> First, I do like the general solution you've implemented, and the fact
> it can be used to improve other, unrelated areas of Tails. Thanks!
... also, I forgot to mention that on the long run, we might want to
offload some of this work and maintenance to bilibop [1]; a while ago,
I've been discussing its usefulness for Tails with the upstream author
(Cc'd) on the ITP [2], and reviewing their packaging on the RFS [3].
In the end, IIRC I was quite happy with the packaging, but I did not
sponsor the upload because I still was not sure we wanted to use it in
Tails: on the one hand, it's generally great to replace custom code
with some generic code maintained by others than us, who seem to be
experts in the specific area this code is about; also, bilibop would
presumably work on "exotic" installations of Tails that our custom
code does not bother support; on the other hand, the fancy
über-genericity of bilibop may seem slightly overkill for our needs.
Unfortunately I lost track of what is missing to use bilibop in Tails.
quidame: would you be interested in testing your latest bilibop
packaging in Tails 0.17.1 and report back how it goes? (As of now,
I think we're only interested in the "chgrp disk" feature.)
anonym: do you want to have a look at bilibop when you're freed from
your various commitments? I'd like someone else's opinion on
this matter.
[1]
https://un.poivron.org/~quidame/bilibop_project/
[2]
http://bugs.debian.org/675467
[3]
http://bugs.debian.org/675532
Cheers,
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