Re: [Tails-dev] Heads up: update your build environment

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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Heads up: update your build environment
28/05/14 10:44, intrigeri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> intrigeri wrote (11 May 2014 19:45:19 GMT) :
>> tl;dr:
>
>>   * If you are maintaining your Tails build VM manually, please
>>     upgrade your Tails build VM to Wheezy, and install our custom
>>     live-build package as documented on
>>     https://tails.boum.org/contribute/build/#manual

>
> I'm curious what's the status on this one. Can we start assuming
> everyone is now building on Wheezy?


Well, I'm using Vagrant only, so no.

>>   * Else, if you're using Vagrant, or care about it, please upgrade
>>     our Vagrant basebox (#7218). I *might* do it myself in a few weeks
>>     or months, as a way to make it easy to contribute to Tails with
>>     code, but you should absolutely *not* rely on it. Volunteers?

>>
>>     Note that even if nobody wants to upgrade the basebox to Wheezy,
>>     given Squeeze's LTS support will likely be done in a different
>>     archive than the usual Debian one, the basebox will definitely
>>     need to be updated when Squeeze reaches EOL, that is in a few
>>     weeks. So, perhaps rebuilding it on Wheezy is not that much more
>>     work (yeah, I know, last time we had to update the basebox, I went
>>     with the easy way of updating it in-place, which might not be an
>>     option for the Wheezy upgrade; but maybe it is :)

>
> Anyone interested?


I volunteer to do it (I have other basebox changes on my plate any way),
but I won't give a hard ETA but my goal will be similar to yours, i. e.
to have it done "in a few weeks or months".

Cheers!