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

Kumar Sukhani kumarsukhani at gmail.com
Fri Feb 13 07:50:13 EST 2015


ya, I will do that.
We need additional packages for xfce.
Should I add those packages in cdebootstrap command ?

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <
hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:

>
> 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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Kumar Sukhani
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