[arch-releng] Arch iso packages; clonezilla?

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

On 11/23/2013 07:51 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Jonathan Steel <mail at jsteel.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to propose including clonezilla [1][2] in the installation
>> media. It provides an ncurses menu for backing up and restoring
>> partitions/disks using partclone, which is already included (I maintain
>> both).
>>
>> As well as being a small and useful tool, I have another motive for getting
>> it added.
>>
>> Clonezilla currently offer live media iso files of Debian and Ubuntu-based
>> operating systems running clonezilla. By including clonezilla in our
>> installation media they are happy to add it as an alternative version,
>> offering an Arch-based iso that you can run clonezilla on.
>>
>> Are there any objections to this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> [1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/clonezilla/
>> [2] http://clonezilla.org
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Steel
>> Trusted User
> 
> If [1] and [2] is the list of the packages included on the iso, the
> only packages that need to be added are
> bc 86.8 KB
> clonezilla 906.7 KB *
> drbl 1.1 MB *
> pigz 64.1 KB
> sshfs 30.1 KB
> 
> I marked clonezilla and drbl with '*' as they are
> architecture-independent packages - arch=('any'). The package size of
> these 8 [3] packages is ~2.5 MB.
> 
> 
> [1] https://projects.archlinux.org/archiso.git/plain/configs/releng/packages.both
> [2] https://projects.archlinux.org/archiso.git/plain/configs/releng/packages.x86_64
> [3] 32 and 64-bit versions of bc, pigz and sshfs + clonezilla and drbl
> 

As said before, there is a +1 from me ;)

-- 
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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