<li>The default mount point for the live system was changed from <em>/lib/live/mount/medium</em> to <em>/run/live/medium</em>.
This works around a regression which appears on-again-off-again, and follows upstream changes for Debian/bullseye.
If you don't have any custom tools which rely on <em>/lib/live/mount/medium</em> (or its ancestor <em>/live/image</em>),
- then this change is irrelevant for you
+ then this change is irrelevant for you.
- <li>Tools like grml2usb and grml-x have been ported from Python2 to Python3 (AKA py3k).
+ <li>Tools like grml2usb and grml-x have been ported from Python2 to Python3 (AKA py3k), we no longer support Python2 in our tools.
+
+ <li>The live system no longer uses a custom Grml kernel, instead we switched to the linux-image packages provided by Debian.
</ul>
<h4>Misc:</h4>
- <ul>
- <li>cloud-init support (grml-full only): TODO
+ <ul>
+
+ <li><strong>cloud-init support</strong> (grml-full only): <a href="https://cloud-init.io/">cloud-init</a> is a standard multi-distribution method for cross-platform cloud instance initialization.
+ Cloud-init identifies the cloud it is running on and reads any provided metadata from the cloud and initializes the system accordingly.
+ This is useful for e.g. setting network configuration, SSH access key and hostname.
+ To enable it on Grml, boot with boot option <em>`services=cloud-init`</em>.
+ If you configured a SSH public, logging in as user `grml` works.
+ For static network configuration you need to boot with boot options <em>`nonetworking services=cloud-init,networking`</em>.
+
+ <li><strong>qemu-guest-agent support</strong>: when running in appropriate environments (like <a href="https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve">Proxmox VE</a>) this daemon exchanges information between the host and guest system (VM) (also see <a href="https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Qemu-guest-agent">Proxmox wiki</a> for further information).
+ When booting Grml as a VM in such an environment, the network information is visible in the VM summary then, like:</li>
- <li>qemu-guest-agent: TODO
+ <img style="margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; border: 0" src="../../img/qemu-guest-agent.png" /> <!-- FIXME -->
- <li>grml-quickconfig: network information (TODO)
+ <li><strong>network information in grml-quickconfig</strong>: hostname, cloud-init, IP addresses and zeroconf/avahi information:</li>
- </ul>
+ <img style="margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; border: 0" src="../../img/grml-quickconfig.png" /> <!-- FIXME -->
+
+ </ul>
<h4><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems):</h4>
- <li>Support for cloud-init (via GRML_FULL)
- <li>sudoers: set Defaults secure_path to have sane default settings
- <li>initramfs xz-compress: use default xz compression level
- <li>GRMLBASE/98-clean-chroot: fix resolvconf symlink handling + get rid of resolvconf workarounds
- <li>Rebuild /var/lib/dpkg/available to install not-yet-installed packages in update runs
- <li>Sources list setup for security: switch from testing/updates to testing-security
- <li>Switch default mount point from /lib/live/mount/medium to /run/live/medium
- </ul>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Support for cloud-init (via GRML_FULL)
+ <li>sudoers: set Defaults secure_path to have sane default settings
+ <li>initramfs xz-compress: use default xz compression level
+ <li>GRMLBASE/98-clean-chroot: fix resolvconf symlink handling + get rid of resolvconf workarounds
+ <li>Rebuild /var/lib/dpkg/available to install not-yet-installed packages in update runs
+ <li>Sources list setup for security: switch from testing/updates to testing-security
+ <li>Switch default mount point from /lib/live/mount/medium to /run/live/medium
+ </ul>
<h4><a href="/grml2usb/">grml2usb</a> (tool to install Grml ISO to usb device):</h4>
- <li>Support more syslinux module locations and support setting custom ones via option <em>--syslinux-libs=...</em>
- <li>No longer explicitly list addon files, instead copy all files from <em>/boot/addons/</em>
- <li>Provide git-describe based version information when running from within git
- <li>Fix path to syslinux *.c32 files
- <li>Add smoke autopkgtests to Debian packaging
- <li>Abort if required logo.16 file is missing
- <li>Avoid custom boot options getting duplicated when used with multiple ISOs
- </ul>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Support more syslinux module locations and support setting custom ones via option <em>--syslinux-libs=...</em>
+ <li>No longer explicitly list addon files, instead copy all files from <em>/boot/addons/</em>
+ <li>Provide git-describe based version information when running from within git
+ <li>Fix path to syslinux *.c32 files
+ <li>Add smoke autopkgtests to Debian packaging
+ <li>Abort if required logo.16 file is missing
+ <li>Avoid custom boot options getting duplicated when used with multiple ISOs
+ </ul>
<h4>grml-hwinfo (tool to collect hardware information):</h4>
- <li>Store output of `lscpu -e` in file `lscpu_extended`
- <li>Store cpuid output in file `cpuid`, add cpuid to Recommends
- <li>Record uptime (/proc/uptime in `proc_uptime` and uptime(1) in file `uptime`)
- <li>Report SecureBoot state via mokutil
- <li>Store "$HOME"/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log (if available) as user_Xorg.0.log
- <li>Log output of verbose lsusb run in file lsusb_verbose
- <li>Provide output of verbose lspci run in file lspci_verbose
- <li>Recommend acpica-tools package and provide acpidump output (as root)
- </ul>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Store output of `lscpu -e` in file `lscpu_extended`
+ <li>Store cpuid output in file `cpuid`, add cpuid to Recommends
+ <li>Record uptime (/proc/uptime in `proc_uptime` and uptime(1) in file `uptime`)
+ <li>Report SecureBoot state via mokutil
+ <li>Store "$HOME"/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log (if available) as user_Xorg.0.log
+ <li>Log output of verbose lsusb run in file lsusb_verbose
+ <li>Provide output of verbose lspci run in file lspci_verbose
+ <li>Recommend acpica-tools package and provide acpidump output (as root)
+ </ul>
<h4><a href="/zsh/">grml-zshrc</a> (Zsh configuration):</h4>
- <li>Reset $REPLY parameter before calling prompt token functions
- <li>Disable bracketed paste mode for dumb terminals
- <li>Fix urxvt multi-line issue
- <li>commit-to-history: keep escaped character
- <li>Support PAGER='less -Mr' usage and fall back to vi if LESSOPEN is unset
- </ul>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Reset $REPLY parameter before calling prompt token functions
+ <li>Disable bracketed paste mode for dumb terminals
+ <li>Fix urxvt multi-line issue
+ <li>commit-to-history: keep escaped character
+ <li>Support PAGER='less -Mr' usage and fall back to vi if LESSOPEN is unset
+ </ul>
<h4><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing pure Debian):</h4>
- <li>Support BOOT_APPEND usage outside of VMs
-
<li>Support <a href="https://gitlab.mister-muffin.de/josch/mmdebstrap">mmdebstrap</a> via DEBOOTSTRAP=mmdebstrap
- <li>Use new security.debian.org repository layout for bullseye and newer
- <li>Fix detection of predictable network interface names
- <li>Add option <em>--sshcopyid</em> to authorise root login
- <li>Provide workaround for Debian bug <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=918590">#918590</a> with lvm + udev in VM installations
- <li>/etc/fstab: provide header comment, pointing to man pages and systemctl daemon-reload
- <li>Add DHCP setting for Predictable Network Interface Names
- </ul>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Support BOOT_APPEND usage outside of VMs
+ <li>Support <a href="https://gitlab.mister-muffin.de/josch/mmdebstrap">mmdebstrap</a> via DEBOOTSTRAP=mmdebstrap
+ <li>Use new security.debian.org repository layout for bullseye and newer
+ <li>Fix detection of predictable network interface names
+ <li>Add option <em>--sshcopyid</em> to authorise root login
+ <li>Provide workaround for Debian bug <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=918590">#918590</a> with LVM + udev in VM installations
+ <li>/etc/fstab: provide header comment, pointing to man pages and systemctl daemon-reload
+ <li>Add DHCP setting for Predictable Network Interface Names
+ </ul>
<h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
<p>Details about shipped packages and their versions in Grml are
available in the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
- <a href="/files/grml64-full_2020.06/dpkg.list">dpkg_list</a> for a
+ <a href="/files/grml64-full_2020.06/dpkg.list">dpkg_list</a> (FIXME) for a
detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2020.06(-rc1).</p>
<h3>Updates</h3>
<p>Packages are taken from Debian testing as of FIXME of FIXME 2020.
- 22 packages have been removed, and these 26 new packages
+ 22 packages have been removed, and these 28 new packages
have been added (excluding lib*, *-common, python3-* and kernel image):</p>
<ul>
- <li>bind9-dnsutils
+ <li>avahi-utils (Avahi browsing, publishing and discovery utilities)
+ <li>bind9-dnsutils (Clients provided with BIND 9)
<li>bind9-libs (dependency of avahi-daemon, bind9-dnsutils, bind9host + libnss-mdns)
- <li>borgbackup
- <li>cloud-init
+ <li>borgbackup (deduplicating and compressing backup program)
+ <li>cloud-init (initialization system for infrastructure cloud instances)
<li>cpp-9 (replacement for cpp-8)
- <li>dnsutils
+ <li>dnsutils (Clients provided with BIND)
<li>fuse3 (dependency of borgbackup, exfat-fuse, ntfs-3g, sshfs + testdisk)
<li>gcc-10-base (replacement for gcc-8)
<li>gcc-9-base (replacement for gcc-8)
- <li>iperf3
+ <li>iperf3 (Internet Protocol bandwidth measuring tool)
<li>logsave (dependency of e2fsprogs)
<li>lua-lpeg (dependency of nmap)
- <li>ncdu
- <li>pci.ids
- <li>perl-modules-5.30
+ <li>ncdu (ncurses disk usage viewer)
+ <li>pci.ids (dependency of sysfsutils)
+ <li>perl-modules-5.30 (related package for new perl version)
<li>python3.8 (replacement for python3.7)
<li>python3.8-minimal (replacement for python3.7-minimal)
- <li>qemu-system-gui
- <li>radvd
+ <li>qemu-system-gui (QEMU full system emulation binaries (user interface and audio support))
+ <li>radvd (Router Advertisement Daemon)
<li>ruby2.7 (replacement for ruby2.5)
<li>runit-helper (dependency of acpi-support, acpid, irqbalance + openssh-server)
<li>sound-theme-freedesktop (dependency of vim-gtk3)
- <li>tree
+ <li>tree (displays an indented directory tree, in color)
<li>usb.ids (dependency of usbutils)
- <li>vim-gtk3
- <li>zstd
+ <li>vim-gtk3 (Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor - with GTK3 GUI, replacement for vim-gtk/GTK2)
+ <li>wireguard (fast, modern, secure kernel VPN tunnel)
+ <li>zstd (fast lossless compression algorithm -- CLI tool)
</ul>
<ul>
- <li>ash
+ <li>ash (replaced with dash)
<li>cpp-8 (replaced with cpp-9)
- <li>cryptsetup-run
- <li>fuse
+ <li>cryptsetup-run (transitional package for cryptsetup)
+ <li>fuse (replaced with fuse3)
<li>gcc-8-base (replaced with gcc-9-base + gcc-10-base)
- <li>gdbm-l10n
- <li>hfsprogs
- <li>ipsec-tools
- <li>lilo
- <li>linux-libc-dev
- <li>pm-utils
- <li>powermgmt-base
- <li>python3-prettytable
- <li>python3.7
- <li>python3.7-minimal
- <li>racoon
- <li>rng-tools
- <li>ruby-did-you-mean
- <li>ruby-json
+ <li>gdbm-l10n (reverse dependency only)
+ <li>hfsprogs (not DFSG-Free)
+ <li>ipsec-tools (dead upstream, consider using wireguard instead)
+ <li>lilo (should no longer be relevant nowadays)
+ <li>linux-libc-dev (reverse dependency only)
+ <li>pm-utils (reverse dependency only)
+ <li>powermgmt-base (reverse dependency only)
+ <li>python3-prettytable (reverse dependency only)
+ <li>python3.7 (replaced with python3.8)
+ <li>python3.7-minimal (replaced with python3.8-minimal)
+ <li>racoon (dead upstream, consider using wireguard instead)
+ <li>rng-tools (unavailable in Debian/testing, see <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=951663">#951663</a>)
+ <li>ruby-did-you-mean (reverse dependency only)
+ <li>ruby-json (reverse dependency only)
<li>ruby2.5 (replaced with ruby2.7)
- <li>tasksel
+ <li>tasksel (became priority=optional in Debian)
<li>vim-gtk (replaced with vim-gtk3)
</ul>
Lukas Prokop,
Marc Haber,
Michael Stone,
+ Moviuro,
Patrick Schleizer and
Ralf Moll
for their contributions.</p>
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