On 07/10/2020 20:41, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Hi David! > > Anno domini 2020 Wed, 7 Oct 01:52:30 +0100 > David Hare via tde-users scripsit: >> >> Nik, >> >> Exegnu is designed to be pure devuan with TDE and a few other additions, >> mostly as custom deb packages.. exegnu-userdefaults-trinity (description >> incorrectly says jessie, its now for beowulf>) is the one which does >> what it suggests (including skel configs) >> >> root@vaio:/# dpkg -l|grep exegnu >> ii exegnu-installer 3.0.3 >> all Installer for Exe GNU/Linux (Devuan with Trinity >> Desktop Environment) >> ii exegnu-keyring 1 >> all exegnulinux archive keyring >> ii exegnu-oxygen-icons 3.0.0 >> all Oxygen Icon Theme for Trinity Desktop >> ii exegnu-trinity-themes 3.0.3 >> all Exe GNU/Linux Ksplash and Wallpaper for Trinity Desktop >> ii exegnu-userdefaults-trinity 3.0.3+1 >> all Exe GNU/Linux User Defaults for Debian/Devuan Jessie >> with Trinity Desktop. >> ii live-boot 1:20190614+exegnu1 >> all Live System Boot Components >> ii live-boot-initramfs-tools 1:20190614+exegnu1 >> all Live System Boot Components (initramfs-tools backend) >> ii pmount 0.9.99-alpha-1+exegnu1 >> amd64 mount removable devices as normal user >> ii straw-viewer 0.0.3-2~exegnu1 >> all Search, stream and download YouTube content. >> >> >> live-config-trinity is the other one, this sets the live-config >> functions for TDE (for a live system), which is unsupported in the >> mainstream. >> >> The rest are packages not available elsewhere or rebuilds with extra >> functionality and none are essential. >> >> BTW Exegnu is built from a clean bootstrap and isn't actually >> Refracta-based. Although I have been involved also with Refracta and of >> course include some of the excellent Refracta tools in exegnu. >> >> Cheers, >> D > > Thank you for the explanation. I managed to customize exegnu. Right now I'm stuck at the exegnu-installer :) > > This is what I've done: > - changed /lib/live/config/0050-locales and /lib/live/config/1066-trinity-lang to default to de_DE (insted of en_US). > - PREEMPT-RT kernel > - LinuxCNC + html docs + smictrl + KiCad ... > - TDE configured to my needs > - removed the content of /etc/exegnu/skel (all the relevant settings are in ~user) > - made /etc/skel to match my users config including .trinity (this might be an error, but I think it's not) > - made /usr/local/sbin/adduser.local to take care of the specialities from /etc/skel > - made a folder ~/tool/ with F-Engrave + G-code_ripper + dmap2gcode + pcb2gcodeGUI + dxf2gcode + PyCAM > - made custom menu for the tools > > Then I built a ISO with refractasnapshot. The resulting ISO works as expected - ~/tools is present, menu is there etc. > But when I run the installer, the additionons are gone. Basicly it looks like the user directory is wiped clean and restored from /etc/skel and /etc/exegnu/skel - wich I think is what is actually going on. > > So now I'm working my way through exegnu-installer to see how I could make my "new" user identical to the user of the ISO. When this is done I have a fine image for my lectures - and anybody who wants exegnu remastered with linuxcnc is wellcome to test :) > > BTW, there is a bug in 1067-exegnu-userdefaults, line 48: > SYSTEMLANG=$(cat /etc/default/locale|grep -m 1 'LANG='| sed 's/LANG=\"//'| sed 's/[A-Z].*//') > As /etc/default/locale does not have a <"> the spanish version is never used. > > What I am now struggling with (besides the installer) is an easy way to make my modifications to the various refracta/live/exegnu-packages kind of persistent - i.e. make it survive a package reinstallation. > > Nik Cheers Nik, I see you (mostly) worked out your remaster issues yourself! Well done, and thanks, because you also raised a few issues with the default exegnu image that need sorting but I had missed. It needs to work out-of-the-box with refractasnapshot. Re language: The correct way to set language is with a boot parameter on cmdline, e.g. lang=de (parsed in live-config script 1066-trinity-lang) OR the Debian way, locales=de_DE.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=de .. no need to edit those scripts. It only defaults to en_US if nothing is specified or if it is unspported. Of course the appropriate TDE language pack should be installed, e.g.tde-i18n-de-trinity. Which it isn't on the default iso, multiple language packs would make the iso very large! The exegnu installer needs patching to show "clone" mode properly. It's looking for a file "/etc/snapshot-id", from a previous experimental snapshot version no longer in use. That should in turn fix the skel issue for a snapshot installation. Thanks for identifying 1067-exegnu-userdefaults, line 48 .. I expect that was once correct but maybe got changed in ascii/beowulf.. Not sure what you mean by modifications to the various refracta/live/exegnu-packages .. if you mean package lists, you would need to generate a new one before running refractasnapshot e.g. dpkg -l|egrep "^ii|^hi"|awk '{print $2 " " $3}' |column -t > pacckages.txt and place it manually in /live of your snapshot build directory before you build the iso.. Cheers, D