Question: read-only root filesystem about pi-gen HOT 7 CLOSED

Looks like there isn't anybody else doing this. I'll close this since it's not actually an issue.

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Fair enough. For what it's worth: joeyparrish@b3cfadd#diff-c59b8b8fa77cc3c4ea5682ccf394fe53

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Also, is there a better place for me to ask questions? A mailing list or forum or something that would be preferable to github's issue tracker?

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pi-gen doesn't exactly have an active user base to justify a mailing list or a forum. I am happy to answer questions here, but if I don't have an answer and nobody else chimes in, I will close the issue after a while.

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I'd definitely use this feature if it were available. I'll try to work @cashpipeplusplus' existing work into a PR with an option controlled by the config file. Is that something that you'd consider merging?

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JFYI, if read-only were to be an option, there would be better ways to do it than what I did in my fork. For example, in my fork, I made it a goal replace stage 3 and leave the rest as-is, to make rebasing easier. That means I'm undoing certain parts of earlier stages, rather than changing those stages themselves.

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The idea is that the stages themselves are separate from build system. The stages provided here are a starting point for people who want to customise the official raspbian image for their needs or to track development and see upcoming changes.

I don't see how a read only option in config fits in with the above. I think it works best as a fork.

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