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Refracta Tools for Buster/Sid and Beowulf/Ceres

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fsmithred
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Refracta Tools for Buster/Sid and Beowulf/Ceres

#1 Post by fsmithred »

New versions of refractasnapshot and refractainstaller are available ifor Debian Buster/Sid and Devuan Beowulf/Ceres. You can get them from the refracta page at sourceforge or from the Devuan Ceres repo. The ones on sf are signed with my key and have ~fsr in the version. Other than that, they are the same as the ones in the repo.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/refracta/files/tools/
refractainstaller-base (9.5.0)

* Set root path to include sbin directories. (for Buster/Beowulf)
* Eliminate sudo/su question in wrapper script. Try sudo first.
* Shorten log name to refractainstaller.log
* Changed yad version test to 0.27 or newer needed. (This is a guess.)
* Changed wording for sshd_config (s/without-password/prohibit-password)

refractasnapshot-base (10.2.0)

* Set root path to include sbin directories. (for Buster/Beowulf)
* Fixed missing grub splash in uefi boot.
* Choose task first, get disk report only with full snapshot.
* Put report in text-info window so it has scroll bars and fits on screen.
* Merge grub-efi warning into main report.
* Automate the encryption confusion:
* Test initrd for cryptsetup. Rebuild with CRYPTSETUP=y if needed.
* Test initrd for conf.d/resume and cryptroot. Remove if present.
* Update ssh_config wording.
* Replaced dysfunctional progress bar in check_space() with info window.
* Test for config file after command-line options.
* Changed name of log to refractasnapshot.log
* Make help screen available within program.
* Added '-iso-level 3' to xorriso command for isos larger than 4GB.

fsmithred
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Re: Refracta Tools for Buster/Sid and Beowulf/Ceres

#2 Post by fsmithred »

Newer new versions. Made some changes around encrypted systems. (both installing to encrypted and making snapshot from encrypted.)

Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/refracta/files/tools/
Docs: https://refracta.org/documents.html
refractasnapshot (10.2.10)

* Updated splash, isolinux.bin, chain.c32, vesamenu.c32
* Copy filesystem before editing initramfs.
* Remove resume from filesystem copy when editing initramfs.

refractainstaller (9.5.4)

* Exclude .kde/share/config/kdesurc
* fstab fixes for swap and /boot/efi
* Make some static entries in /dev
* Use luks1 format for encrypted /boot. (Debian bug #927165)
* Let terminal die when finished. (gui package only)

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Re: Refracta Tools for Buster/Sid and Beowulf/Ceres

#3 Post by panpan »

Is there a way to make refractasnapshot as fast as MX-snapshot, because it is too slow to make the snapshot.

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