On 06/02/2024 19.02, sajolida wrote:
> Stored for now in https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/19320.
I think David was mostly referring to the importance of documenting how
users can add any custom persistence features themselves.
I'm wondering why we don't support this in the GUI yet. We rejected a
ticket about that [0] 10 years ago for reasons I doubt are valid still
so I opened a new issue [1] where we can discuss this.
Cheers!
[0]
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/5383
[1]
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20184
> David A. Wheeler:
>>
>>> On Feb 1, 2024, at 5:25 AM, anonym <anonym@???> wrote:
>>> But, as already shown above, Tails allows you to customize it
>>> extensively through the persistence feature. The Additional Software
>>> persistence feature [3] allows you to keep any package from Debian
>>> installed and up-to-date, so just install python3-pip and the other
>>> tools you like that way.
>>>
>>> [3] https://tails.net/doc/persistent_storage/additional_software/
>>>
>>>> A persistent storage feature for user installed python packages
>>>> could also be designed to be a hook that adds the appropriate
>>>> corresponding .local folders to the persistence.conf upon activation
>>>> of the feature.
>>>
>>> It is not a documented feature any more (I think because of bugs like
>>> #19267) but you can also make any folder persistent yourself. Start
>>> Tails with an administration password, login, start a Root Terminal.
>>>
>>> This makes ~/.local persistent:
>>>
>>> echo '/home/amnesia/.local source=dot-local' \
>>> >> /live/persistence/TailsData_unlocked/persistence.conf
>>>
>>> You can do this multiple times, so this also makes the pip cache
>>> persistent:
>>>
>>> echo '/home/amnesia/.cache/pip source=pip-cache' \
>>> >> /live/persistence/TailsData_unlocked/persistence.conf
>>>
>>> The `source=pip-cache` part means that the data will be stored on the
>>> persistent storage in
>>> `/live/persistence/TailsData_unlocked/pip-cache`, so just make sure
>>> to never re-use the same source as any other line in that file. You
>>> must restart Tails for lines added like this to take effect.
>>
>> I strongly recommend *documenting* this capability (e.g., in
>> "additional software").
>>
>> There's no way this group can directly support all special needs, but
>> documenting how
>> people can self-help would be really valuable. A few specific examples
>> of common cases
>> (I'd put pip in that category) would be especially helpful.
>>
>> --- David A. Wheeler
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