Auteur: Austin English Date: À: The Tails public development discussion list Sujet: Re: [Tails-dev] How to build tails for testing purposes?
On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 10:04 AM Hans <hans.ullrich@???> wrote: >
> Hi folks,
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> I am experiencing with building my own version of tails, but got stuck.
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> I downloaded the git, installed all needed packages on my debian system, made my changes in ~/tails/config/ and then started
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> rake build && rake vm:halt
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> But this did not work. I got the message:
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> ---- snip --------
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> You have uncommitted changes in the Git repository. Due to limitations
> of the build system, you need to commit them before building Tails:
> M config/chroot_local-packageslists/tails-common.list
> ?? config/chroot_local-packages/kali-undercover_2021.1.2_all.deb
> ?? vmdb2.log
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> If you don't care about those changes and want to build Tails nonetheless,
> please add `ignorechanges` to the TAILS_BUILD_OPTIONS environment
> variable.
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> Uncommitted changes. Aborting.
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> ------- snap ---------
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> However, I do not want to commit anything yet, because I do not want to mess up with your git-sources!
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> How can I build just for me, without interfering your tails-git?
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> Changes I made:
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> 1. edited ~/tails/config/chroot_local-packageslists/tails-common.list
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> 2. added kali-undercover*.deb into ~/tails/config/chroot_local-packages/
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> If this is working, I will try to optimize things (maybe also build for 32-Bit). Maybe I will then ask for more help, but first let me try, if I can get it managed to build tails running with XFCE instead of Gnome and the possibility, to look XFCE like Windows10.
As the output tells you, you need to set TAILS_BUILD_OPTIONS:
