Unfortunately, all dependencies must be explicitly mentioned in the
installer script.

If the installer could not be built, dump the log files. This makes it
easier e.g. on Jenkins to see where the error is.

Turn off the splash screen

When the live system is booted in QEMU with the 'VGA' driver, the
console output is garbled until the 'bochs' kernel module is loaded.
When the 'verify-checksums' kernel command line option is used, the
systemd 'modprobe@drm.service' has not been run yet, which would use the
kernel module from the live system. Therefore the kernel module is
placed inside the initramfs.

Roland Clobus authored 1 month ago and Luca Boccassi committed 1 month ago

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-source
Package names (both source and binary, see Package) must consist only of
lower case letters (a-z), ...

For live-boot: remove 'quiet' to show the result of the verification of
the checksums.
For dracut-live: keep 'quiet', it will show the verification prominently

Roland Clobus authored 2 months ago and Luca Boccassi committed 2 months ago

Instead of adding the package as a afterthought in 'chroot_hacks',
require it upfront in 'config'

Roland Clobus authored 2 months ago and Luca Boccassi committed 2 months ago

Instead of separate 'XXXsum.txt' files, use isomd5sum and the kernel
option 'rd.live.check'.
This breaks the verification done inside the Debian installer, which
requires 'md5sum.txt' to be present.

Roland Clobus authored 2 months ago and Luca Boccassi committed 2 months ago

Instead it will be called from a chroot

* The timestamp in the Release file is now reproducible
* The time zone of the timestamp is in UTC, which fixes the warning
  'Invalid 'Date' entry in Release File' from 'apt-get update'
  Reported by: Robert Spiteri
  https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2024/11/msg00029.html

There is no need to have bootstrap_archives:
* It is nearly a copy of chroot_archives
* The configuration of the chroot (/etc/apt/sources.list) happens at the
  beginning of the 'chroot' phase by chroot_archives
* The configuration change was made after 'bootstrap_cache save', so its
  modifications weren't usable for later stages anyway

* Renamed the functions to signal that they attempt to do a bind mount.
  There is no need to call the new functions within an if-statement.
* Adds support for external local repositories and fixes the
  'test_local_repository_chroot' test from 'test_external_deb_sources'

Use UTC for the date, since the timezone is specified (Z)

Fixes an inconsistency regarding the 'parent' configuration settings

* The newer version of apt (2.9.25) requires 'Signed-By'
* Embed the signing key in git, to make it possible to have reproducible
  tests (the signature is embedded in the ISO files)

* Install all files with the proper extension.
* Adjust the expectations: chroot-only packages are not listed for
  'apt-get update'
* Reduce copy-paste
* Add apt-pinning to avoid Ubuntu packages being used during the
  construction of the binary content (rootfs, ISO, etc)
* Additional asserts, similar to other tests

Ensure that we correctly --rename the diverted file. Otherwise, both
diversion targets may exist at the time of undiverting.

Link: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/01/msg00125.html
Reported-by: Emil Södergren
Written-by: Helmut Grohne
Link: helmutg/live-build@71436bf8

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If 'eatmydata' is found, use it.
On a CI system calling 'sync' influences the other processes that are
running on the shared host. 'debootstrap' calls 'sync' in its second
stage. For live-build, the synchronisation is not required.

When building against the snapshot server, adjust the sources.list entry
such that 'apt-get update' (in the live environment) will not complain
about the expired release file