From: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
To: "Demi Marie Obenour" <demiobenour@gmail.com>,
"Johannes Süllner" <johannes.suellner@mailbox.org>,
devel@spectrum-os.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] host/rootfs: integrate spectrum-installer
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:56:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ikaxgvbq.fsf@alyssa.is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6c012315-9fd7-4430-b71c-d9c06538e07c@gmail.com>
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Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com> writes:
> On 2/4/26 12:55, Johannes Süllner wrote:
>> The installer needs to run as root, so that `systemd-repart` can write
>> to disks. Since Weston is not running as root (since b26f59e), just as
>> with the root terminal, we add a s6-sudod service for the installer.
>
> Could this be conditional to the live image? Installed images don't
> need it.
My hope would be to not have a distinction in the end between live and
installed images. If you're worried about attack surface we could have
some switch to disable it before boot, as far out as possible like in
the kernel command line or a UEFI variable.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-15 11:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-04 17:55 [PATCH v2 0/5] Spectrum-installer Johannes Süllner
2026-02-04 17:55 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] tools: add spectrum-installer Johannes Süllner
2026-02-04 17:55 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] host/rootfs: integrate spectrum-installer Johannes Süllner
2026-02-05 4:17 ` Demi Marie Obenour
2026-02-05 8:56 ` Johannes Süllner
2026-03-15 11:56 ` Alyssa Ross [this message]
2026-03-15 12:15 ` Alyssa Ross
2026-02-04 17:55 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] release: drop combined and installer image Johannes Süllner
2026-03-15 12:20 ` Alyssa Ross
2026-02-04 17:55 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] release/live: remove B slot from live image and reduce A slot size Johannes Süllner
2026-03-15 12:21 ` Alyssa Ross
2026-02-04 17:55 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] Revert "scripts/make-gpt.sh: allow setting partition size" Johannes Süllner
2026-03-15 12:23 ` Alyssa Ross
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