Author: intrigeri Date: To: The Tails public development discussion list Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Please review and merge feature/live-boot-3.x
Hi,
anonym wrote (04 Dec 2012 17:20:11 GMT) : > It seems you didn't test read-only persistence, cause it doesn't
> work any more.
You're absolutely right, I forgot or neglected this one.
> [...] However, I'm gonna call this a bug in live-boot instead.
> None of the persistence code has had the /live to /lib/live move
> made, and that would work around this potential aufs bug. [...]
Does the attached patch upgrade all the persistence to the new paths?
If so, it looks good enough to be pushed upstream.
Beware, I think the debian / debian-next branches roles have been
updated recently, so you probably want to ask dba where to push first.
> I must say I don't understand the /live to /lib/live move in
> live-boot. From what I understand [1], the move is supposed to
> completely eliminate /live,
AFAIK, this is the idea, yes.
> but there's still so much stuff going on in /live so I'm not sure.
Oh, really... I thought the migration was finished.
(Just curious: what's left not migrated yet?)
> Do you known what's going on?
I don't.
> I'm gonna think about this a bit more and perhaps ask on the debian-live
> mailing list (unless you have all the details) before I take proper
> action and hopefully get send a fix upstream tomorrow. Until then, the
> attached patch (against live-boot 3.0~b7-1) fixes the issues with
> read-only persistence in Tails from my tests (note: I only tested by
> patching 9990-overlay.sh in a running Tails session, but I doubt it'll
> break the boot part of live-boot since the patch only touches
> persistence code).
