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[arch-releng] [RFC] Reworking some features of archiso
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 29 Mar '14

29 Mar '14

This is manly for make it more simple, removing features not used today, or never used. I want to do this for making transition to systemd (on initramfs) more easy.

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[arch-releng] archiso with cowfile_size > 100
by Christian Hesse 21 Mar '14

21 Mar '14

Hello everybody, actually cowfile_size is limited to values smaller or equal to 100. That way you have to decide at iso build time what size your filesystems should have. I have added a feature to allow values bigger than 100: In this case the read only device is linearly assembled with a sparse file (we do not have to care about size on disk as no write go to this file), this device is used for read only device then. After chroot (or when the system has bootet up) you can grow your filesystem to the new size. Growing the filesystem in initramfs would be possible, but we would have to add userspace utilities (resize2fs, xfs_growfs, ...) there... The patch is attached. What do you think? -- main(a){char*c=/* Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH" "CX:;",b;for(a/* Chris get my mail address: */=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/* gcc -o sig sig.c && ./sig */b/42*2-3)*42);}

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[arch-releng] UEFI Shell
by Christian Hesse 20 Mar '14

20 Mar '14

Hello everybody, currently the build process fetches two versions of UEFI shell via curl. There are two problems with that: * The files are not verified in any way. * The build process fails if files could not be retrieved. (Currently there is a certificate problem at sf.net, so this is the case atm.) Any chance to get these file from any package? If this is not needed anywhere else add the files to archiso itself. -- main(a){char*c=/* Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH" "CX:;",b;for(a/* Chris get my mail address: */=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/* gcc -o sig sig.c && ./sig */b/42*2-3)*42);}

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