Re: [Tails-dev] Heads up: update your build environment

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Author: Alan
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To: tails-dev
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Heads up: update your build environment
Hi!

> >   * If you are maintaining your Tails build VM manually, please
> >     upgrade your Tails build VM to Wheezy, and install our custom
> >     live-build package as documented on
> >     https://tails.boum.org/contribute/build/#manual

>
> I'm curious what's the status on this one. Can we start assuming
> everyone is now building on Wheezy?
>

I am. Works like a charm.

> >   * Else, if you're using Vagrant, or care about it, please upgrade
> >     our Vagrant basebox (#7218). I *might* do it myself in a few
> > weeks or months, as a way to make it easy to contribute to Tails
> > with code, but you should absolutely *not* rely on it. Volunteers?

>
> >     Note that even if nobody wants to upgrade the basebox to Wheezy,
> >     given Squeeze's LTS support will likely be done in a different
> >     archive than the usual Debian one, the basebox will definitely
> >     need to be updated when Squeeze reaches EOL, that is in a few
> >     weeks. So, perhaps rebuilding it on Wheezy is not that much more
> >     work (yeah, I know, last time we had to update the basebox, I
> > went with the easy way of updating it in-place, which might not be
> > an option for the Wheezy upgrade; but maybe it is :)

>
> Anyone interested?
>

Not me.

Cheers