[Grml-devel] First Release Candidate of Grml version 2014.03 released

[Michael Prokop]

* 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.
> [...]
> > 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.sha1.asc
> 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/2601da4bd0e6c98fbda1a9e1e65a6d4836cb2bc6

> * libertas-firmware

Thanks, fixed:
https://github.com/grml/grml-live/commit/b586e553fbddd1e54bdcead285d69b5d97ef9d79

> 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-
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