[Grml] How do I find out which FAI classes were used to build a

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 09:16:38PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
> * Marc Haber [Thu Aug 31, 2017 at 03:56:48PM +0200]:
> > to reproduce a bug, I would like to build a local grml image as similiar
> > as possible to grml64-full.2017.05.iso.
> 
> > How do I find out which FAI classes were used to build the image to give
> > the exact same list to grml-live's -c option? Is that information inside
> > the ISO and/or accessible from the booted grml?
> 
> The best we currently have are the build logs, e.g.
> https://jenkins.grml.org/job/grml64-full_Release/32/console has the
> details for the grml64-full.2017.05 ISO. So it was generated using
> the following classes:
> 
>   DEBORPHAN,GRMLBASE,GRML_FULL,RELEASE,AMD64,IGNORE,SNAPSHOT

Thanks, that will help.

> This raises an interesting issue, it might be nice to include such
> build information inside the ISO itself by default.

Yes, I opened grml-live #44 about that.

> What about something like:
> 
> % jo build_date="$(TZ=UTC date +%s)" grml_live_classes=DEBORPHAN,GRMLBASE,GRML_FULL,RELEASE,AMD64,IGNORE,SNAPSHOT grml_live_version=0.30.2 build_tool=grml-live debian_release=stretch grml_live_options="-F -V -A" architecture=amd64 grml_version=build2065 debian_release=autobuild-build2065 grml_name=grml64-full_sid build_host="jenkins.grml.org" | jq -S '.'
> {
>   "architecture": "amd64",
>   "build_date": 1504206859,
>   "build_host": "jenkins.grml.org",
>   "build_tool": "grml-live",
>   "debian_release": "autobuild-build2065",
>   "grml_live_classes": "DEBORPHAN,GRMLBASE,GRML_FULL,RELEASE,AMD64,IGNORE,SNAPSHOT",
>   "grml_live_options": "-F -V -A",
>   "grml_live_version": "0.30.2",
>   "grml_name": "grml64-full_sid",
>   "grml_version": "build2065"
> }
> 
> put into /GRML/buildinfo.json or so on the ISO?

Looks nearly perfect. A personal preference might be that I'd prefer a
human-readable date as build_data and the snapshot, if it's important in
the first place, the epoch timestamp in another variable.

And probably the suite is missing.

Greetings
Marc

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