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Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer

From	Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.devel, linux.debian.maint.boot, linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject	Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer
Date	2022-01-18 10:00 +0100
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Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> writes:

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> As far as I understood Phil's last posting he is working on an enhanced
> tasksel.

Actually, what I've been working on is infrastructure to allow others to
contribute to such an effort.

I've recently enabled a CI pipeline in the tasksel master branch, so
anyone forking that will now get the benefit of this work for free (as
long as they set the CI file to be 'debian/salsa-ci.yml').

I intend to blog about the details shortly, but a quick run down is that
this pipeline was triggered by a commit to my fork:

  https://salsa.debian.org/philh/tasksel/-/pipelines/337031

which (via a multi-project pipeline) generates a mini-iso:

  https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/jobs/2364015/artifacts/file/public/gtk-mini.iso

that is configured to use an additional apt repo, which in this case
includes a version of tasksel built from the above branch:

  https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/branch2repo/-/jobs/2364013/artifacts/browse/public/pool/main/t/tasksel/

which one can then download the min-iso for testing, and/or cause to be
automatically tested with openQA, as seen here:

  https://openqa.debian.net/tests/overview?groupid=13&build=-salsa-337031:philh:tasksel:salsa-CI_tasksel

where if one drills down to the logs, and search for 'salsaci', one can
see that the tasksel packages came from the extra repo:

  https://openqa.debian.net/tests/37964/logfile?filename=_collect_data-debs.txt

The same is true for udebs that are included at build time, and that
would be expected to be downloaded at d-i runtime, so simply by creating
named branches with the same name across all the (u)debs that one wants
to test together you can get hold of a mini-iso that will use those
versions in preference to the released versions, without needing to know
anything about building d-i or debian CDs.

Hopefully that lowers the bar enough so that people can concentrate on
the bits they want to improve without immediately getting stuck on how
they could possibly test their efforts.

However, I've not really put much thought into what actually needs to be
changed in order to address the Blends Selection problem.

In the past when this has come up I've come up with some temporary hacks
that worked around the lack of a decent user interface, but if we want
to fix this properly then I think Steve has a point that one way to do
that is to extend debconf, and then use new features in tasksel.

I don't have anything like a design for how that should look in my head
though -- I guess interested parties should get together and come up
with a design _before_ we start trying to implement it :-)

Cheers, Phil.
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Thread

Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2018-08-16 10:40 +0200
  Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Filippo Rusconi <lopippo@debian.org> - 2018-08-16 11:00 +0200
    Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2018-08-16 13:50 +0200
  Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2018-12-03 22:40 +0100
    Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2019-12-18 08:30 +0100
      Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2020-01-06 17:30 +0100
        Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2020-03-23 20:20 +0100
          Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2020-03-24 07:50 +0100
          Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2020-10-06 18:10 +0200
            Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2020-10-08 11:30 +0200
              Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2020-10-08 15:30 +0200
              Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> - 2021-03-02 14:50 +0100
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2021-03-06 18:00 +0100
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Andreas Tille <andreas@fam-tille.de> - 2021-11-14 08:50 +0100
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2022-01-10 17:40 +0100
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2022-01-10 20:30 +0100
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Andreas Tille <andreas@fam-tille.de> - 2022-01-10 20:50 +0100
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org> - 2022-01-10 21:10 +0100
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Seth Arnold <seth.arnold@canonical.com> - 2022-01-11 02:10 +0100
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> - 2022-01-11 09:30 +0100
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org> - 2022-01-18 00:40 +0100
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> - 2022-01-18 07:50 +0100
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2022-01-18 10:00 +0100
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> - 2022-01-21 08:20 +0100
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2024-02-13 23:50 +0100
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> - 2024-02-14 09:40 +0100
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2024-05-09 23:20 +0200
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2024-05-10 08:50 +0200
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2024-05-10 09:10 +0200
                DD application (Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer) Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2024-05-10 09:40 +0200
                Re: DD application (Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian  installer) John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> - 2024-05-10 09:40 +0200
                Re: DD application (Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian  installer) Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2024-05-11 22:10 +0200
                Re: DD application (Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian  installer) Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2024-05-11 23:10 +0200
                Re: DD application (Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian  installer) Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2024-05-13 18:30 +0200
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2024-12-11 23:30 +0100
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2024-12-12 07:30 +0100
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2024-12-12 09:50 +0100
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> - 2024-12-12 11:30 +0100
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2024-12-12 16:50 +0100
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2024-12-12 20:10 +0100
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2024-12-13 02:20 +0100
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> - 2024-12-13 08:30 +0100
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2024-12-13 15:30 +0100
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de> - 2024-12-16 13:40 +0100
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2024-12-14 23:30 +0100
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Andreas Tille <andreas@fam-tille.de> - 2024-05-10 11:40 +0200
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> - 2025-01-05 22:30 +0100
                Blends added to Debian installer - please register your Blend Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2025-01-08 08:50 +0100
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2025-01-14 22:30 +0100
                Is blendsel part of D-I RC1? (Re: Next attempt to add Blends to  Debian installer) Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> - 2025-05-17 07:30 +0200
                Re: Is blendsel part of D-I RC1? (Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer) Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2025-05-17 08:20 +0200
                Re: Is blendsel part of D-I RC1? (Re: Next attempt to add Blends to  Debian installer) Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2025-05-17 09:40 +0200
                Re: Is blendsel part of D-I RC1? (Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer) Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2025-05-17 10:00 +0200
                Bug#1042478: Is blendsel part of D-I RC1? (Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer) Stefan Kropp <stefan.kropp@posteo.de> - 2025-05-18 07:20 +0200
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2024-05-11 20:30 +0200
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2024-05-12 01:20 +0200
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2024-05-12 09:00 +0200
                Re: Next attempt to add Blends to Debian installer Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2024-05-12 12:00 +0200

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