Your message dated Sun, 28 Sep 2025 20:57:04 +0200
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and subject line live-wrapper is no longer used
has caused the Debian Bug report #929881,
regarding cdimage.debian.org: Unofficial non-free live images have 400+ MB
bloat from extra firmware
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Package: cdimage.debian.org
Severity: important
Tags: patch
Debian Images Team,
Sizes of netinst images with and without firmware:
375 MiB firmware-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
334 MiB debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
-------
41 MiB difference
Sizes of Live Standard images with and without firmware:
1285 MiB debian-live-testing-amd64-standard+nonfree.iso
824 MiB debian-live-testing-amd64-standard.iso
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461 MiB difference
debian-cd generates netinst images:
* Only includes firmware|microcode packages that contain files
in /lib/firmware
*
https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/debian-cd/blob/master/tools/generate_firmware_task
*
https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/debian-cd/blob/master/tools/make-firmware-image
live-setup generates Live images:
* Includes *all* firmware|microcode main|non-free packages
* Also includes their massive dependencies
*
https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/live-setup/blob/master/available/run-30live-wrapper
I can think of three fixes for live-setup:
1) Have live-setup use the firmware task generated by debian-cd
2) Copy make-firmware-image to live-setup for use there
3) Patch live-setup run-30live-wrapper with the **untested** patch below
By the way, this bug report supercedes my earlier #929790:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=929790
Thank you!
Daniel Lewart
Urbana, IL
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diff -ru a/available/run-30live-wrapper b/available/run-30live-wrapper
--- a/available/run-30live-wrapper 2019-05-01 08:24:07.000000000 -0500
+++ b/available/run-30live-wrapper 2019-06-02 00:00:00.000000000 -0500
@@ -98,12 +98,26 @@
# Work out which packages to add for non-free firmware
select_firmware_packages () {
ARCH=$1
- SECTIONS="main non-free"
- PKGS=""
- for SECTION in ${SECTIONS}; do
- PKGS="$PKGS "$(wget -q
$MIRROR/dists/${CODENAME}/${SECTION}/binary-${ARCH}/Packages.gz -O- | gzip -cd
- | \
- grep-dctrl -Pe '.*(firmware|microcode).*' -s Package -n | sort -u)
- done
+ case "$ARCH" in
+ amd64|i386)
+ ;;
+ *)
+ echo "Unknown ARCH $ARCH; abort!"
+ exit 1
+ ;;
+ esac
+
+ # Q.v. debian-cd/tools generate_firmware_task & make-firmware-image
+ PKGS="amd64-microcode atmel-firmware bluez-firmware
+dahdi-firmware-nonfree firmware-amd-graphics firmware-ath9k-htc
+firmware-atheros firmware-b43-installer firmware-b43legacy-installer
+firmware-bnx2 firmware-bnx2x firmware-brcm80211 firmware-cavium
+firmware-intel-sound firmware-intelwimax firmware-ipw2x00 firmware-ivtv
+firmware-iwlwifi firmware-libertas firmware-linux-nonfree
+firmware-misc-nonfree firmware-myricom firmware-netronome
+firmware-netxen firmware-qcom-media firmware-qlogic firmware-realtek
+firmware-samsung firmware-siano firmware-ti-connectivity firmware-zd1211
+hdmi2usb-fx2-firmware intel-microcode"
echo $PKGS
}
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The tool live-wrapper is not longer used to generate the live images.
Meanwhile, the logic which includes the non-free-firmware packages in
the live-build package has improved, so I close this bug report.
Please reopen if you think that this is still an active issue.
With kind regards,
Roland Clobus
Maintainer of live-build
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