Control: owner -1 [email protected] On Thu, 31 Aug 2023 21:01:53 +0100 Christopher Obbard <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Christopher Obbard <[email protected]> > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > > Package name : v-i > Version : 0.4 > Upstream Contact: Lars Wirzenius <[email protected]> > URL : https://gitlab.com/larswirzenius/v-i > License : GPL-3 > Programming Lang: Python, YAML > Description : An alternative Debian installer using vmdb2 and ansible > > v-i installs a very basic Debian onto a PC. It's entirely > non-interactive and unhelpful. The author wrote it so that repeated > installations would be less of a chore than using the official Debian > installer. > > v-i uses vmdb2 to install onto bare metal hardware. > vmdb2 is a program to create a disk image virtual machines > with Debian, by the same author. It "installs Debian" to a file > representing a hard drive. It's basically debootstrap, except the > target is a disk image instead of a directory. It's used to create > Debian images for Raspberry Pis. > > I'd like to package this as part of the installer-team, but I haven't > yet asked their permission or had any grace from them.
I've started packaging this at https://salsa.debian.org/debian/v-i For now it's just the repository structure and basic boilerplate packaging; nothing actually gets installed. Comments welcome if you have any ideas on how the binary packages should be split up. I hope to get some time to go a bit further in the coming months. Cheers! Chris
