Excalibur testing isos

golinux · 2024-08-18 04:55:29

You may have noticed that currently no Excalibur testing isos are available.

As soon as someone from the Devuan community steps up to do the weekly builds, they will be available again.

Details here: https://files.devuan.org/devuan_excalib … aller-iso/

Perhaps this is YOUR chance to be a hero!

greenjeans · 2024-08-26 19:22:38

So, I only know one way to make .iso's, and that's using Refracta-snapshot and Refracta-installer (or similar programs in the past). I am NOT a real developer by any stretch of the imagination.

Basically while working on Vuu-do, I rolled up at least one or two per night for testing, implementing new changes I had made plus whatever updates had been pushed through since I last rolled one, using Synaptic. Then uploaded new versions to Sourceforge.

If this process would be okay, and somebody can get me an .iso of Excalibur that's current that contains (or can be added at least) the Refracta programs I mentioned, i'd be happy to clear a partition, install, and roll up new editions and upload wherever you need them. I won't say nightly but I can do better than just once a week, I get a lot of satisfaction watching my machine "squashing", lol.

fsmithred · 2024-08-26 19:57:11

Hey greenjeans, thanks for the offer. I've already made some excalibur desktop-live isos, but I haven't published any yet for a couple of reasons. For one thing they would be outdated by a hundred packages or so by the time I signed and uploaded them. Also, I wanted people to test the installer isos. Yeah, that second one doesn't count anymore. Hold that thought.

If you're really hot to start working on Excalibur Vuu-do there's always mini.iso or debootstrap. Find current anomalous debootstrap info for excalibur on this forum. You have to exclude a few things like cron-daemon-common and specify --with-merged-usr or else use mmdebstrap.

greenjeans · 2024-08-26 20:12:25

Oh i'm not ready for a Vuu-do Excalibur, still haven't done one for Daedalus.

What I was thinking, is roll one up like the .iso Devuan has (or did last time I checked last year) that uses Refracta installer instead of going through the installer iso hoopla, quick and easy.

A hybrid-iso you can run live for testing purposes without having to commit to an install, but with the ability to do so if wished. Seems like if it's all for testing purposes that might be better and quicker for people doing the testing?

If I was testing, that's what i'd be willing to do it on, quick live boot, run it through it's paces. As opposed to an hour long ordeal to get it installed which is what I had to do (multiple times mind you) to install my current Devuan, since I wanted MATE and the only hybrid-iso offered was the one with XFCE.

It would be easy to kick out new ones for testing, as I would basically be keeping a rolling current release on the machine, updating when enough new packages rolled in or once a week or whatever. Then squashing a new hybrid and uploading.

Bonus is my new internet has the same fast upload speeds as it does download, so no long time to wait on uploads.

Anyhoo, just a thought, let me know if it would be useful.

golinux · 2024-08-26 20:24:40

Just for clarification of the topic of this tread . . . these are the isos that need to be rebuilt for weekly testing. The process is so far above my skill-set it gives me vertigo to look at that page!

greenjeans · 2024-08-26 20:41:10

Yikes Golinux, above my pay grade too, lol. I was thinking as simple as possible, not the whole nine yards. Wish I could help more but i'd need a year just to figure what the heck all is going on.

I still think there's some merit in my idea though, quickie isos for casual testing.

I've about made up my mind, to do a basic Devuan Mate hybrid-iso for current stable, keep it updated, might be nice for folks who prefer Mate and are distro-hopping looking for a good one to install. No hacking or excessive Bleachblitting....mostly. ;-)

golinux · 2024-08-26 20:48:37

Yes, that will be a welcome contribution, greenjeans! However, the installer isos are an essential option so imperative to have testing isos built weekly. Still waiting for that to happen . . .

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