From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 20:04:02 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Generated. X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/commitdiff_plain/6b5f8579fde305f7cc7900cdbda3ab6c7d425db9?ds=inline Generated. --- diff --git a/blog/FreedomBox_milestone___all_packages_now_in_Debian_Sid.html b/blog/FreedomBox_milestone___all_packages_now_in_Debian_Sid.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7747d5d043 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/FreedomBox_milestone___all_packages_now_in_Debian_Sid.html @@ -0,0 +1,408 @@ + + + + + Petter Reinholdtsen: FreedomBox milestone - all packages now in Debian Sid + + + + + + +
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+ Petter Reinholdtsen + +

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FreedomBox milestone - all packages now in Debian Sid
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15th April 2014
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The Freedombox +project is working on providing the software and hardware to make +it easy for non-technical people to host their data and communication +at home, and being able to communicate with their friends and family +encrypted and away from prying eyes. It is still going strong, and +today a major mile stone was reached.

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Today, the last of the packages currently used by the project to +created the system images were accepted into Debian Unstable. It was +the freedombox-setup package, which is used to configure the images +during build and on the first boot. Now all one need to get going is +the build code from the freedom-maker git repository and packages from +Debian. And once the freedombox-setup package enter testing, we can +build everything directly from Debian. :)

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Some key packages used by Freedombox are +freedombox-setup, +plinth, +pagekite, +tor, +privoxy, +owncloud and +dnsmasq. There +are plans to integrate more packages into the setup. User +documentation is maintained on the Debian wiki. Please +check out +the manual and help us improve it.

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To test for yourself and create boot images with the FreedomBox +setup, run this on a Debian machine using a user with sudo rights to +become root:

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+sudo apt-get install git vmdebootstrap mercurial python-docutils \
+  mktorrent extlinux virtualbox qemu-user-static binfmt-support \
+  u-boot-tools
+git clone http://anonscm.debian.org/git/freedombox/freedom-maker.git \
+  freedom-maker
+make -C freedom-maker dreamplug-image raspberry-image virtualbox-image
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Root access is needed to run debootstrap and mount loopback +devices. See the README in the freedom-maker git repo for more +details on the build. If you do not want all three images, trim the +make line. Note that the virtualbox-image target is not really +virtualbox specific. It create a x86 image usable in kvm, qemu, +vmware and any other x86 virtual machine environment. You might need +the version of vmdebootstrap in Jessie to get the build working, as it +include fixes for a race condition with kpartx.

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If you instead want to install using a Debian CD and the preseed +method, boot a Debian Wheezy ISO and use this boot argument to load +the preseed values:

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+url=http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-jessie.dat
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I have not tested it myself the last few weeks, so I do not know if +it still work.

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If you wonder how to help, one task you could look at is using +systemd as the boot system. It will become the default for Linux in +Jessie, so we need to make sure it is usable on the Freedombox. I did +a simple test a few weeks ago, and noticed dnsmasq failed to start +during boot when using systemd. I suspect there are other problems +too. :) To detect problems, there is a test suite included, which can +be run from the plinth web interface.

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Give it a go and let us know how it goes on the mailing list, and help +us get the new release published. :) Please join us on +IRC (#freedombox on +irc.debian.org) and +the +mailing list if you want to help make this vision come true.

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