[guardian-dev] idea for "install profiles" for Lil' Debi

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at guardianproject.info
Fri Feb 13 07:47:26 EST 2015


Yeah, that would be a good example of a profile: full XFCE setup!  Can you
write it up in a Lil' Debi post-install script?

.hc

Kumar Sukhani:
> Now I tried running xfce desktop environment.
> That is also working with Lil'Debi :)
> 
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <
> hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
> 
>>
>> I had an idea for a feature that I think would make Lil' Debi a lot more
>> useful for things like that.  Now I'm looking for feedback on how useful it
>> would be, and anything else people might think of.
>>
>> Basically, Lil' Debi should support "installation profiles"  On the install
>> screen, there would be a menu of profiles to choose from.  Some profiles
>> could
>> be "basic webserver", "wireshark", "minimal SSH", etc. etc.  The user would
>> just choose one of those profiles, and then Lil' Debi would make that
>> setup.
>>
>> I think this could be implemented as a folder like
>> /data/data/info.guardianproject.lildebi/app_profiles, and each profile
>> would
>> be an sh script with a little metadata in it, like name and description.
>> The
>> menu would be automatically built from whatever script are in that folder,
>> so
>> people could easily write and test their own profile scripts, just by
>> copying
>> them to that folder.
>>
>> Or maybe this profile would be even simpler, it is just a list of packages
>> to
>> install.  Then there would be much less security risk, and we could make it
>> really easy for people to swap these profiles with each other, and have
>> them
>> installed into Lil' Debi.
>>
>> .hc
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