Tails

#5 Updated by sajolida 2016-06-30 04:46:57

I think that Tails Server should do whatever is required to install the packages from its services instead of us adding all of them to the ISO. We’re wondering about Mumble here but we might as well wonder about etherpad, infinoted, lighttpd, owncloud, etc. So I’d rather have a generic solution for any server package that can be needed by Tails Server without having to rely on adding them all to the ISO image.

In the case of Tails with persistence, we can benefit from the APT Packages persistence feature (and probably have some installation mechanism aside from the additional packages mechanism). In the case of Tails without persistence the download and bootstrapping time might be quite long so there should definitely be some UX work on how to present this download and installation to the user because it can take several minutes to download the index and packages.

#6 Updated by sajolida 2016-06-30 04:53:01

Oops, I’m realizing now that you are talking about Mumble the client! I’ll have to think about it more :)
Sorry for the noise.

#8 Updated by Anonymous 2016-06-30 06:34:40

good call try to add it

#10 Updated by segfault 2017-02-14 16:27:51

> There has been some discussion about this on Feature #11241 that should be summarized here. Since then a patch has been upstreamed which exposes the SSL certificate’s fingerprint on the initial prompt when a cert failed to validate (e.g. because it was self-signed, which will be the case when Tails Server hosts a mumble server). We should try to get that patch backported to Debian Jessie.

The Tails Server client app automatically adds the SSL fingerprint to the trusted fingerprints, so we don’t need the patch that bad anymore.

#11 Updated by segfault 2017-02-14 16:31:27

I added mumble to chroot_local-packageslists/tails-common.list in feature/5688-tails-server, so this will be resolved when we release Tails Server.

#12 Updated by intrigeri 2017-02-14 18:02:44

> I added mumble to chroot_local-packageslists/tails-common.list in feature/5688-tails-server, so this will be resolved when we release Tails Server.

Do we really need to ship in the ISO all kinds of server software Tails Server might use?

#13 Updated by segfault 2017-02-14 18:08:34

> Do we really need to ship in the ISO all kinds of server software Tails Server might use?
This is not about the server software but the client software.

#14 Updated by intrigeri 2017-02-14 18:49:20

> This is not about the server software but the client software.

/me hides. Sorry for the noise!

#20 Updated by Anonymous 2018-01-18 12:42:30

@segfault: will this really be in 3.5? Otherwise, please set a correct target version, thanks!

#25 Updated by intrigeri 2018-09-19 06:08:20

I think we should not do that until we’re confident the package is included in Buster, which probably won’t be the case unless a Qt5 version is ready and uploaded to Debian in time: https://bugs.debian.org/875058, https://bugs.debian.org/874683. Also, according to https://bugs.debian.org/875058#45, “Mumble upstream development has slowed, the main developers are out of contact” which is a bit concerning.