Regular ISO for User Testing

[chrisdebian]

Hi, all (Ikey BDFL :-) )

It was great to see the recent release, would it be possible to schedule more frequent releases "PreAlpha1..." so that users who can't code, can contribute by giving feedback? Probably not a "Nightly" at this point, but maybe "Weekly"? Getting the ISO running on real hardware, would help with bug reporting and feature requests. Will SOS have a bug reporting mechanism, i'm thinking of something like Apport?

Many thanks, team.

Chris.

[ikeycode]

Sure frequent releases should be a priority. Let's get on that.

[chrisdebian]

Thanks, Ikey.

[ikeycode]

Sorry this is still slow Chris, with the version stuff happening we should be able to make this a lot easier.

[chrisdebian]

That's great, Ikey. Hope to install it one day.

Cheers,

Chris

[orgcontrib]

After some minor tweeks, I managed to build and run the ISO on Fedora. It was a good excercise as I've been reminded of some facts along the way. I think that is equaly important to add Serpent OS to The Operating System information database as we already have it on Repology.

diff --git a/desktop/img.sh b/desktop/img.sh
index fc6a5a4..058c3f9 100755
--- a/desktop/img.sh
+++ b/desktop/img.sh
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ echo "Using compression type: $COMPRESSOR"

WORK="$(dirname $(realpath $0))"
echo ">>> workdir ${WORK}: ${WORK}"
-TMPFS="/tmp/serpent_iso"
+TMPFS="/var/tmp/serpent_iso"
echo ">>> tmpfs dir ${TMPFS}: ${TMPFS}"

then I ran:

sudo --preserve-env="HOME,PATH" ./img.sh -p gnome_pkglist

and I've learned about the GNOME Boxes issue.

[orgcontrib]

A bit off-topic, Fedora related: BZ2278123.

[ermo]

After some minor tweeks, I managed to build and run the ISO on Fedora. It was a good excercise as I've been reminded of some facts along the way.

I can build ISOs on Fedora just fine using the default /tmp dir:

The reason we use /tmp is speed. If you are building ISOs in a VM, you should allocate at least 16 GiB of RAM to it, so the iso building process can use 8 GiB on /tmp (I believe it is set to use 50% of available RAM by default).

I use sudo -E myself, but your use of long options is possibly nicer.

[ikeycode]

Chris I think I fixed this xD