live-build: Todo

misc

• gtk d-i true for squeeze
• volatile, backports
• btrfs support
• extlinux support -> check d-i from ext partitions in cdrom-detect
• tmpfs support
• implement globaly shared caches
• update d-i handling for new Xorg based gui installer
• put default configs into a git repository so that the cgi clones from them
• fix build failures with -p minimal and local packages
• add extlinux as bootloader
• binary_debian-installer fails when cpio is not available (should use chrooted cpio)
• update to use syslinux-themes-debian
• trusted keys from local repository are not removed again.
• finish usb-zip support.
• finish grub on usb.
• fix size issues in the desktop images (tasksel usage screwup).
• "common" source packages must include other architectures packages (e.g. bootloaders) too.
• build 'all-in-one' dvd.
• finish image-name option and other temporary branches.
• think about prebuilt alternatives images with grub instead of syslinux.
• make lb invocation to build installer-only images possible.

core

• add bash completion.
• create log file per default
• support global cache in /var/cache/live-build
• parse options only once
• parse config only once
• review all config value names, use ini format for config tree and stabilize it
• finish documentation and manpages
• allow to completely build off-line from cache, including 'faked' indices for remote mirrors.
• allow to build for cross-architectures (binfmt where possible, otherwise two stage debootstrap with qemu emulation).
• interactive mode should set debconf frontends to interactive and priority to low.
• merge different tarball compressions into tar-gz, tar-bz2, etc., same way as usb-hdd and usb-zip.
• support building multiple binary images in a row.
• support building images without root (fakeroot, fakechroot, sudo etc).
• improve webfrontend, use http://linuxcoe.sourceforge.net/ for inspiration.
• add a flag to make use of tmpfs for the build directory automatically.

config

• create --report-config option
• create --validate-config option
• define modes by dropping files with variables into modes.d/ directory
• improve Check_defaults() to cover more wrong combinations/values
• improve --clone (see bootcd for inspiration).

cgi

• add debconf prompts to make setup automatic
• add FAQ to index page
• remove unavailable packages from apt list
• fix debian-live packages lists

binary_debian-installer

• populate bootloader configuration with both regular netinstall and live-installer entries.

binary_rootfs

• support partial squashfs images
• review pre-cached chroot mechanism and fix regression with config/binary_rootfs/excludes
• support read-ahead and squashfs -sort

binary_usb

• add usb-zip and usb-gpt support.

binary_syslinux

• redo configfile stuff
• use custom theming from /usr/share/$bootloader-theme-$foo
• add gfxboot helper
• add extlinux support
• update for syslinux 6:
  • since syslinux 5 and syslinux 6 themes are incompatible due to path changes, move syslinux 6 bootloaders to proper capitalized includes (e.g. config/bootloaders/ISOLINUX).

chroot_linux-image

• make initrd compression configurable, e.g. lzma instead of gzip.
• divert update-initramfs during chroot stage, only (re)build initrd once in chroot_hacks.

source

• make source images apt-get'able
• also cache source packages to avoid re-downloading
• introduce source mirrors so that we can have mirrors to fetch source packages from being different from those where we fetch debs from (not all mirrors carry sources, unfortunately).

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