From: Liraz S. <li...@tu...> - 2008-09-15 14:12:10
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Neil Wilson wrote: | And is there a description anywhere of what these custom components | do, and why you need them? | Sort of, though documentation is always something that can be improved. Any package that isn't taken straight from Ubuntu's repositories can be found at our mini-repository at archive.turnkeylinux.org, and the corresponding source can be found at code.turnkeylinux.org. New packages have READMEs in them. For example: http://code.turnkeylinux.org/di-live/docs/README Modified packages, of which there are currently only three (casper, busybox-initramfs and turnkey-keyring) are also labeled in the package management system (e.g., casper is versioned 1.131-turnkey+15+g0374506). We had to modify casper because Ubuntu's casper hardwires various behaviors that don't need to happen in a server Live CD type scenario (e.g., X configuration) Ubuntu's developers did that because currently only Ubuntu runs the desktop versions (Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu) "live". Ubuntu server can't run live and doesn't use casper, but TurnKey Linux appliances are mostly built for server tasks so we had to change that. The patches to busybox-initramfs change the built busybox configuration slightly to better serve TurnKey's different usage scenario (compared to Ubuntu). There are a couple of new packages in the appliances as well: we packages Joomla because nobody else would touch it due to frequent security issues and we wrote di-live as glue code that would allow debian-installer to run from a live CD usage scenario without a GUI (which Ubiquity needs). This kind of information is something I think might be good to add to the development wiki http://turnkey.wik.is/, maybe others are interested in it as well. If you have other ideas, we'd love to hear about them. Cheers, Liarz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBSM5tA23sltOwZ4DZAQKjIgf9FDFB5Y1U5i4PhkQD3izs+uN1IBmZItLd 727ZX3FUpCOXGLiT1dEubWntbNTNHgRtTJ9B+hDKE5lkV1eySgCh09c6gO+evm9s KAsqrTZ+2+3loQ8K74e5kaxE1mk3Vo0UGjlsR0mtlqGDQ04eqWU4d/8gwUpsUzCJ IYVBxtReJFLoXYdQjHbFOF9nWZeBWiW5ZGBIZBVBq6mrcm0a2OK54JGh3ct93W+X 0uguLhXVp/hn/cRIugN0qNgaHwZ3Z+T+i+J0XNzFm1rc0JRpE3Xe7/Vmotf6a50o MrgaCbMYSusPgdtWvsw9qVsxxhg3EF/L45S0ka/7zdZkT+9gn+jAew== =YKN3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |