Carbon Bugs

johnraff · 2025-08-30 05:21:31

johnraff wrote:

Some day soon I need to take a look at whether live-build has caught up with DEB822....
Bug report about DEB822:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … ug=1032131
Roland Clobus Wed, 22 Jan 2025 wrote:
It will take some effort to migrate to deb822 for d-i, and additionally live-build needs to migrate to deb822 as well.
And very little after that...

And a placeholder bug report for live-build:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … ug=1110886

So no DEB822 in Trixie debian-installer or live-build, and BL will have to try to do something with scripts or hooks.

cog · 2025-08-31 00:54:31

@johnraff you can do it with preseed.cfg . That’s what I did. Not ideal but it works.

https://github.com/troutcobbler/hatcher … reseed.cfg

johnraff · 2025-08-31 02:18:23

^Thanks cog, I saw your solution a while ago and will probably use something like that - maybe a linked script instead of putting all the commands in preseed.cfg.

Of course a live-build hook (as I suggested yesterday) won't work because it has to happen at install time, not iso-build time. The Debian-Installer sets up apt sources then.

I was also wondering about wrapping a script around 'apt modernize-sources'.

Since for BunsenLabs there's no queston of choosing a mirror, it might work to hard-code that part - including "signed-by" - while leaving the Debian sources under apt's control. Even the Debian sources will need modernizing though, because the D-I doesn't yet know about deb822.

It might be OK to make a modern deb822 sources file for BL and ship it in the squashed filesystem in the iso. Some testing will be needed...

Head_on_a_Stick · 2025-08-31 16:52:34

The trixie 13.0 installer doesn't leave any sources at all, see https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=163399 for more on this.

I've used this in preseed.cfg:

d-i preseed/late_command string printf 'Types: deb\nURIs: http://deb.debian.org/debian/\nSuites: trixie trixie-updates\nComponents: main  contrib non-free non-free-firmware\nSigned-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg\n\nTypes: deb\nURIs: http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/\nSuites: trixie-security\nComponents: main  contrib non-free non-free-firmware\nSigned-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg' > /target/etc/apt/sources.list.d/deadbang.sources ; in-target apt update

It's basically the same as cog's solution.

EDIT: that didn't work because the late_commands use the busybox version of printf. Oops.

Trying this instead (with the deadbang.sources file added to config/includes.installer/):

d-i preseed/late_command string cp deadbang.sources /target/etc/apt/sources.list.d/deadbang.sources

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2025-08-31 19:05:36)

johnraff · 2025-09-01 05:08:45

^ Debian bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … ug=1110717

It seems to be about whether User enables a mirror during installation or not.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2025-09-01 06:28:00

Thank you sir!

This is strange though because I set the mirror manually in the preseed file. I think I'll just drop those lines and copy the sources file directly into the system, that way deadbang will be DEB822-compliant from the trixie release.

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2025-09-01 06:28:57)

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