GUI installer

[fragadelic]

Might take a look at your code this weekend to see why grub is failing.

[snowkeld]

it works just fine.

built in there was a grub check code.
it runs the grub check command then analyzes the output and tells you if it failed or not.
i changed one part of the check to point to the background image that debian uses, since mint used a different name.

it says it fails because the code to analyze the output of grub check doesn’t find what its looking for as a correct install. so its definition of a correct install needs to be changed to a more default debian, and more generic is always better so it wont fail often what others make changes to their own systems.

[snowkeld]

i have a very serious question.

i want to use upstart (debian)
this works fine and all, but it conflicts with remastersys, can i either still use debian remastersys, or use ubuntu remastersys without casper?

[fragadelic]

What in upstart conflicts with remastersys?

[snowkeld]

apt-get install upstart

to be removed:
live-config live-config-sysvinit live-initramfs remastersys sysvinit


i can substitute live-config/live-config-sysvinit with live-config-upstart
why does it make me remove live-initramfs? where is the replacement?

upstart makes a slight difference in performance on newer computers, and seems to be the way of the modern linux world anyway. who knows, next debian stable might use it by default.


i also might decide to use lightDM. gdm3 is no good, and gdm(2) is outdated. currently using gdm(2)
i haven’t done anything with remastersys or live installer to see what changes i may need to make for lightdm use yet..

[fragadelic]

If you are using testing then they don't have all the packages in sync yet.

[snowkeld]

this is in sid/unstable

upstart works great in debian, but i have not ever tried to get it running live.

[snowkeld]

ok, i have been working with another live creation tool recently.

i have been working with systemd and bugfixing lots of issues in sid.. trying to have my next release running much lighter on back-ends yet including more useful applications, like libreoffice. now using xz compression.



one valuable point of interest is a change to remastersys dependencies is very much needed!

instead of using live-config-sysvinit as a dependency it should be written like "live-config-sysvinit | live-config-backend"

live-config-backend is a virtual package pointing to live-config-upstart and live-config-systemd (or any new ones made in the future).


sysvinit may be current default in debian stable, but it is not the only option. debian is the universal operating system after all, isnt it?



also, i like remastersys as a tool. some updates need to be made that should not be too hard to do.

the dependency change as i said already
also, compression options. this is easy, just set a variable for mksquashfs to point to a value listed in config file. or build the option into the tool itself so it asks.

[fragadelic]

Thanks for the info about the deps.  I am in the process of rewriting the gui for Ubuntu which will also be used for Debian.  I already added squashfs options in ubuntu and that will be added to debian as well.

I also want to redo the installer.  I have been in contact with Ikey Doherty of SolusOS who wrote the LMDE installer.  We're still chatting back and forth right now.

I will probably put out an interim package with some minor tweaks and dep fixes based on your feedback.

[snowkeld]

thank you

this will be very helpful to myself and most likely many others.


if remastersys is working well enough after you make the changes then i will likely choose to use it again for my debian builds.

i do like the process i am using now, but even if i do not use remastersys for my dist i may still include it as a backup option for the user.. i am building "end user desktop" from debian unstable, a good backup option would help many people save their systems if they do something wrong, sid can be unforgiving sometimes.