* Axel Beckert [Tue Mar 25, 2014 at 01:14:48AM +0100]:
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 10:03:36PM +0100, Michael Prokop wrote:
so we did it again, the first release candidate of the upcoming Grml version 2014.03, code-named 'Ponywagon' was released.
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Please test the ISOs and everything you usually use and report back
Choosing 32 bit full on http://grml.org/download/prerelease/ worked fine, but clicking on "Get Checksum/Signature" brought me to http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/grml//devel/grml32-full_2014.03-rc1.iso.sh... which gave a 404.
Thanks, signatures have been missing, just uploaded them now.
Started it via grml-rescueboot on my EeePC 900A.
The font in the boot menu seems to be truncated at the bottom of each line, especially the letters g, p and y are cut off at the font's base line.
Interestingly this is not the case in the help text below the menu, i.e. the "y" in "E to edit menu entry" looks fine. (This does not happen if I use grub-imageboot, only with grml-rescueboot. The menu looks different, like syslinux vs grub or so.)
That's strange.
If I choose "copy grml to RAM" I get an error message about something with "error: null src bitmap in grub_video_bitmap_create_scaled" and "Press any key to continue", but it continues after 5 seconds or such anyway (took me several reboots to manually copy the message) and boots grml without further issues. Does not happen if I use the default boot entry.
Hm ok, which grub version are you using here?
Starting X works fine, but Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't work. Need to use the menu of the window manager.
Ok, that might need further configuration to work again with recent X.org versions.
PS: As you might notice the ISOs increased again (e.g. from ~350MB to 400MB for grml-full), if someone is interested in reducing the ISO we welcome any patches, concrete feedback,..
gcc-4.7-base and libprocps0 can be removed without harm, they're no more needed. (procps depends on libprocps3 nowadays and there's no gcc-4.7 left on the system.)
They seem to be brought in via depends/suggests/... since there's no explicit dependency on it in grml-live, needs investigation.
debconf-i18n (> 1 MB) can probably removed, too.
Same here
iproute (transitional package to iproute2) could be removed, if grml-shlib, isc-dhcp-client and vlan wouldn't still depend on it. grml-hwinfo still recommends it. (At least the grml-* packages could be fixed by grml. :-)
grml-shlib already uses "iproute2 | iproute" in its Depends, so nothing to do here from my PoV.
xcursor-themes seems just convenience. It's not needed if X's default cursors are fine. grml-x works fine without for me. (Or is it needed for people with visual disabilities?)
We use the whiteglass theme since ages.
Does grml really need tasksel and tasksel-data? (> 1,2 MB together)
Nope, wondering which packages brings that in... thanks
The following transitional packages can be safely removed:
- libblas3gf
Seems to be pulled in via a package
- lynx
Thanks, fixed: https://github.com/grml/grml-live/commit/2601da4bd0e6c98fbda1a9e1e65a6d4836c...
- libertas-firmware
Thanks, fixed: https://github.com/grml/grml-live/commit/b586e553fbddd1e54bdcead285d69b5d97e...
The above (without iproute) saves about 7 MB over all according to aptitude.
So from my PoV we could investigate where gcc-4.7-base, libprocps0, debconf-i18n, tasksel and tasksel-data are coming from.
regards, -mika-