October 2013 - Grml - lists.mur.at

Mirrors for GRML
by Timo Jacob 06 Dec '13

06 Dec '13

Hello, please add our mirrors to the public mirror list: + Mirrors Japan: http://mirrors.go-parts.com/grml/ ftp://mirrors.go-parts.com/grml/ rsync://mirrors.go-parts.com/mirrors/grml/ + Mirrors-usa: http://mirrors-usa.go-parts.com/grml/ ftp://mirrors-usa.go-parts.com/grml/ rsync://mirrors-usa.go-parts.com/mirrors/grml/ + Mirrors-uk: http://mirrors-uk.go-parts.com/grml/ ftp://mirrors-uk.go-parts.com/grml/ rsync://mirrors-uk.go-parts.com/mirrors/grml/ + Mirrors-russia: http://mirrors-ru.go-parts.com/grml/ ftp://mirrors-ru.go-parts.com/grml/ rsync://mirrors-ru.go-parts.com/mirrors/grml/ + Mirrors-australia: http://mirrors-au.go-parts.com/grml/ ftp://mirrors-au.go-parts.com/grml/ rsync://mirrors-au.go-parts.com/mirrors/grml/ + Mirrors-brazil: http://mirrors-br.go-parts.com/grml/ ftp://mirrors-br.go-parts.com/grml/ rsync://mirrors-br.go-parts.com/mirrors/grml/ Contact Name: Timo Jacob address: timojacob.gp(a)gmail.com Please let me know if you have any questions and I would be happy to answer them. Kind regards Timo Jacob

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using persistence
by John G. Heim 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '13

I can't find any documentation on what persistence can do for me. What can I do with it? What I need to do is create a flash drive that runs a script upon boot. Can I do that? I created a flash drive with persistence but now I'm not sure how to use it. - --- John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jheim(a)math.wisc.edu

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LANG variable, locales
by adrelanos 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

Hi! Would you agree, that a system created by grml-debootstrap should be as close to stock Debian as possible? - In a default Wheezy installation, the LANG variable is set to en_US.UTF-8. - In system created by grml-debootstrap. the LANG variable is empty. Also the output of `locale` differs. [1] Am I missing an option in grml-debootstrap? Should this be added to grml-debootstrap? What is the recommended way (from a Debian derivative perspective) changing the default of `locale`? Cheers, adrelanos [1] Default Wheezy: LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= grml-debootstrap: LANG= LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="POSIX" LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" LC_TIME="POSIX" LC_COLLATE="POSIX" LC_MONETARY="POSIX" LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" LC_PAPER="POSIX" LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" LC_ALL=

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(grml-)debootstrap network timeout / retry settings?
by adrelanos 09 Oct '13

09 Oct '13

Hi, is it possible to add apt-like options to (grml-)debootstrap to get higher timeouts / more retries when network is slow / flaky? Options comparable to "--option Acquire::http::Timeout=180" or "--option Acquire::Retries=3"? Cheers, adrelanos

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Grml - new stable release 2013.09 available
by Michael Prokop 08 Oct '13

08 Oct '13

Hi, we just released Grml 2013.09 - Hefeknuddler. This Grml release provides fresh software packages after the Debian stable release (AKA wheezy) has been released. As usual it also incorporates up2date hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release. More information is available in the release notes of Grml 2013.09: http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2013.09/ Grab the latest Grml ISO(s) and spread the word! http://grml.org/download/ Thanks everyone and happy grml-ing, -mika-

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[HOWTO] Packaging up out of tree Intel network drivers and adding them to grml
by Andras Korn 05 Oct '13

05 Oct '13

Hi, I packaged a few of Intel's out of tree NIC drivers from http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/ as dkms based .debs and included them in a custom grml image. I'll explain how; if there is interest, I can also share my packages (although, as you'll see, they're likely sub-par, because I did not take the time to really understand what I was doing; in particular, I fear the e1000e module may not always build correctly at grml-live time, while it builds correctly on the live system). 1. I grabbed some tarballs from http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 269997 Sep 5 16:25 e1000e-2.5.4.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 303648 Sep 17 02:23 igb-5.0.6.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 362747 Sep 30 23:21 ixgbe-3.18.7.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 140096 Sep 30 23:31 ixgbevf-2.11.3.tar.gz 2. I extracted each. 3. I moved the contents of foo-1.2.3/src to foo-1.2.3 itself in each. 4. I created a dkms.conf like the following in the root of every driver root directory (i.e. foo-1.2.3/): AUTOINSTALL="yes" BUILT_MODULE_NAME[0]="igb" CLEAN="make clean" DEST_MODULE_LOCATION="/updates" DEST_MODULE_NAME[0]="igb" PACKAGE_NAME="igb" PACKAGE_VERSION="5.0.6" 5. I made sure the Makefiles get the kernel version to build for from the KERNELRELEASE ennvar (not BUILD_KERNEL or similar), because this is what dkms sets: sed -i 's/BUILD_KERNEL/KERNELRELEASE/g' Makefile (In at least one case, I also replaced an #ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP with #ifdef CONFIG_PM in netdev.c because the module didn't build for my kernel otherwise, but this problem doesn't manifest with the grml kernel because it defines either both or neither.) 6. I issued the following dkms commands (from the source directories): dkms add -m foo -v 1.2.3 dkms mkdeb -m foo -v 1.2.3 --source-only (Naturally, you have to replace 'foo' with the name of the module and 1.2.3 with the actual version number.) The second command will create a .deb and dump it somewhere under /var/lib/dkms/. 7. I imported the .debs into my private repository (managed by reprepro). 8. I installed grml-live. I created a new fai 'class', called EXTRANIC. This involved creating the following files: /etc/grml/fai/config/hooks/instsoft.EXTRANIC (mode 755): #!/bin/bash set -u set -e . "$GRML_LIVE_CONFIG" $ROOTCMD apt-get --yes --force-yes install \ dkms build-essential linux-headers-3.10-1-grml-amd64 (You'll note this is inelegant because it hardcodes the kernel version; the point here is to make sure the kernel-headers are already installed by the time the driver packages are installed.) /etc/grml/fai/config/scripts/EXTRANIC/50-dkms (mode 755): #!/bin/zsh set -u set -e . "$GRML_LIVE_CONFIG" for kernelversion in $(${=ROOTCMD} sh -c 'ls -1 /boot/vmlinuz-*' \ | sed 's@.*boot/vmlinuz-@@'); do echo "Building dkms modules for kernel $kernelversion." ${=ROOTCMD} /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms "$kernelversion" done (This may not be necessary. It attempts to build all dkms modules once more, after all requested packages have been installed.) /etc/grml/fai/config/package_config/EXTRANIC: e1000e-dkms igb-dkms ixgbe-dkms ixgbevf-dkms broadcom-sta-dkms r8168-dkms (Yeah, so not just Intel. The others come from regular Debian.) /etc/grml/fai/config/files/etc/apt/sources.list.d/myrepo.list/EXTRANIC: (Contains the deb http://... line for my repository.) /etc/grml/fai/config/package_config/ZFSONLINUX.asc: (Contains the public key of the repository signing key; I'm not sure this is really the correct way of injecting it in the build process.) 9. In /etc/grml/grml-live.local, I have: OUTPUT=/tmp/grml/grml-live SUITE="sid" FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP="sid http://cdn.debian.net/debian" VERSION=$(date +%F) RELEASENAME="grml64-extranic" GRML_NAME="grml64-extranic" HOSTNAME="grml-extranic" ARCH="amd64" DISTRI_NAME="grml-extranic" NO_ADDONS_BSD4GRML='1' EXIT_ON_MISSING_PACKAGES='1' DEFAULT_BOOTOPTIONS="ssh=sekrit" # Be sure you understand what this does before using it 10. I built a new iso using the following command: echo 'y\nn\ny\ny'\ | env -u TMPDIR -u TMP \ nice -n 20 \ grml-live -A -u -e /path/to/grml64-full_sid_20131001.iso \ -c DEBORPHAN,GRMLBASE,RELEASE,AMD64,IGNORE,EXTRANIC I'm posting this in the hope someone finds it useful. I'm not subscribed to the list, so please Cc: me on replies. The resulting image is larger than regular grml as it includes build-essential and its dependencies; if that's a problem, I suppose you can add a script after 50-dkms that purges now-unneeded packages. Incidentally, zfsonlinux can be added to grml in much the same way (that was the original point of the exercise for me). András -- At some point in the project you're going to have to break down and finally define the problem.

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