Announcing explodeinstaller :-).

bifferos · 07-28-2019, 11:07 AM

Unpack your installer ISO images, change anything including initrd device nodes, repack them and automate it all as non-root.

https://github.com/bifferos/explodeinstaller

I've included a couple of example scripts: one to automatically create a target partition on /dev/sda on boot if the MBR is blank, and another to add VirtualBox guest additions to /extra.

regards,
Biff.

average_user · 07-28-2019, 04:37 PM

Python2? How many years ago have you started writing that?

tramtrist · 07-28-2019, 05:41 PM

According to github commits about 12 hours ago

bifferos · 07-28-2019, 05:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by average_user

Python2? How many years ago have you started writing that?

Depends on isoparser, last released Feb 2017, which is seemingly not compatible with Python3.

average_user · 07-29-2019, 12:28 PM

It works with python3:

Code:

$ pip3 install --user isoparser
Collecting isoparser
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packa...ser-0.3.tar.gz
Installing collected packages: isoparser
  Running setup.py install for isoparser ... done
Successfully installed isoparser-0.3

Usage:

Code:

$ python3
Python 3.7.2 (default, Mar 10 2019, 14:53:48)
[GCC 5.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import isoparser
>>> iso = isoparser.parse("/media/data/slackware/slackware64-14.1-iso/slackware64-14.1-install-dvd.iso")
>>> iso.root.children
[<Record (file) name=b'ANNOUNCE.14_1'>, <Record (file) name=b'BOOTING.TXT'>, <Record (file) name=b'ChangeLog.txt'>, <Record (file) name=b'CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT'>, <Record (file) name=b'CHECKSUMS.md5.asc'>, <Record (file) name=b'CHECKSUMS.md5'>, <Record (file) name=b'COPYING'>, <Record (file) name=b'COPYING3'>, <Record (file) name=b'COPYRIGHT.TXT'>, <Record (file) name=b'CRYPTO_NOTICE.TXT'>, <Record (directory) name=b'EFI'>, <Record (directory) name=b'extra'>, <Record (file) name=b'FILELIST.TXT'>, <Record (file) name=b'GPG-KEY'>, <Record (directory) name=b'isolinux'>, <Record (directory) name=b'kernels'>, <Record (file) name=b'PACKAGES.TXT'>, <Record (directory) name=b'pasture'>, <Record (directory) name=b'patches'>, <Record (file) name=b'README.initrd'>, <Record (file) name=b'README.TXT'>, <Record (file) name=b'README_CRYPT.TXT'>, <Record (file) name=b'README_LVM.TXT'>, <Record (file) name=b'README_RAID.TXT'>, <Record (file) name=b'README_UEFI.TXT'>, <Record (file) name=b'READ_DVD.TXT'>, <Record (file) name=b'RELEASE_NOTES'>, <Record (directory) name=b'slackware64'>, <Record (directory) name=b'slackbook'>, <Record (file) name=b'Slackware-HOWTO'>, <Record (file) name=b'SPEAKUP_DOCS.TXT'>, <Record (file) name=b'SPEAK_INSTALL.TXT'>, <Record (directory) name=b'testing'>, <Record (file) name=b'UPGRADE.TXT'>, <Record (directory) name=b'usb-and-pxe-installers'>]

It's also confirmed here: https://github.com/barneygale/isoparser/issues/9

bifferos · 07-29-2019, 12:55 PM

That's not the code I was using to test it, but it doesn't matter. You now need the git version of pycdlib however, unless you wait for the 1.8 release.
But it should work with 2 or 3 now.