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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Hans-Christoph Steiner (2015-02-13 11:31:06)
> 
> 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.

Sounds like an excellent use of boxer: https://wiki.debian.org/Boxer

Declarative profile not only means much less security risk but also lees 
derived from Debian - potentially none (a.k.a. a Debian Pure Blend).

 - Jonas

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