On 08/28/2010 01:50 PM, Robert Spiteri wrote:
is it maybe *nosudo*? found it from the manual page of live-initramfs
can you please confirm? thanks
I don't have the old live-initramfs man page handy, but I don't know if
that helps. It may still be possible for people to gain root with the
old package. I simply can't remember.
live-build and live-config are current in squeeze/sid and that's what we
recommend people use (even for building lenny images). Did you say
you're still building lenny images? I thought we discussed the
possibility of using squeeze, and you were going to try that out ...
If you really do need to stay with lenny, you should at least use the
latest stable live-build and live-config versions in squeeze (the 2.x
series). A couple of weeks ago I would have suggested you use the live
snapshots repo -r live.debian.net to accomplish this, but as that has
now moved forward to the unstable 3.0 branch which is only suitable for
those tracking development, we'll have to do something else.
As a workaround, you could just go to
http://packages.debian.org/live-boot and
http://packages.debian.org/live-config to get the latest squeeze
versions of these packages and drop them in your
config/chroot_local-packages/ directory.
Or if you would just build squeeze images instead, it would solve a
number of issues for you (the things we discussed earlier this week) as
well as this one, without any workaround needed. live-initramfs in
squeeze is now just a transitional metapackage that installs live-build
and live-config, and 'noroot' is supported with these newer packages.
Regards,
Ben
