Hi Sparkers
of course this post make me curious.
I am Piero Proietti the author of penguins-eggs, a remastering program written in the footsteps of the various remastersys, systemback, refracta-snapshot, etc.
I thank the author of the post pavroo for his interest, and describe my experience with Sparky.
Both testing penguins-eggs and test it's compatibility with many distributions, both original and derived.
Sparky did not give me any major problems, but I still had to take action on two things.
os-release
The first, the lack of the field VERSION_CODENAME in /etc/os-release.
eggs goes to detect the result of command lsb_release -c to decide which distribution it is, here it turns out n/a which stands for rolling release and that's not good, because that way I impose Arch Linux compatibility.
So I simply edited /etc/os-release and placed VERSION_CODENAME=bootworm for version 7 and VERSION_CODENAME=trixie for version 8.
calamares
Sparkly linux provides its own version of calamares, unfortunately this one has incompatibilities with eggs, so you'd better install the debian version.
apt-cache policy calamares
Installed: 3.2.61-1+b1
Candidate: 3.2.61~sparky7~3-1
Version table:
*** 3.2.61-1+b1 500
500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3.2.61~sparky7~3-1 1001
1001 https://repo.sparkylinux.org orion/main amd64 Packages
We can proceed in this way:
sudo apt install calamares=3.2.61-1+b1
After that is better to look apt upgrade of calamares, just use:
sudo apt-mark hold calamares
to be continued
I tried to answer to the post on Sparky site, unfortunately I get access denied, so before I try to disturb the author, then I decided to publish here.
There is again much to say and discuss a possible collaboration, we will see.