Building a freshly customized and fully updated Trixie IMG from Bookworm

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I wanted to get started with sdm testing the Trixie userland as soon as possible**, so of course I built an sdm plugin that can be used with whatever your current sdm customization script is. Attached to this note is the trixie-test plugin. Unzip and copy it to your /usr/local/sdm/local-plugins directory.

To use, add the plugin trixie-test as the very first plugin that's run. On the command line, make sure that --plugin trixie-test is the first plugin listed.

In a pluglist ensure that trixie-test is the very first plugin in the file.

Note: This downloads a LOT of packages. Made me very 😃that I am using apt-cacher-ng

If you're not using sdm, it's easy to get started. Install sdm on your Pi (RasPiOS, or Debian derivatives). Complete documentation

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gitbls/sdm/master/install-sdm | bash

** Good thing that I did! Trixie bug found while testing sdm fixed! https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1107169

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For convenience, here's the Official Getting Started with sdm script, with trixie-test included.

#!/bin/bash
#
# Simple script to use sdm with plugins
# Edit the text inside the EOF/EOF as appropriate for your configuration
# ** Suggestion: Copy this file to somewhere in your path and edit your copy
#    (~/bin is a good location)


function errexit() {
    echo -e "$1"
    exit 1
}

[ $EUID -eq 0 ] && sudo="" || sudo="sudo"

img="$1"
[ "$img" == "" ] && errexit "? No IMG specified"

[ "$(type -t sdm)" == "" ] && errexit "? sdm is not installed"

#[ "$sudo" != "" ] && assets="." || assets="/etc/sdm/local-assets"
assets="."
rm -f $assets/my.plugins.1
[ -f $assets/my.plugins ] &&  mv $assets/my.plugins $assets/my.plugins.1

(cat <<EOF
# Plugin List generated $(date +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
EOF
    ) | bash -c "cat >|$assets/my.plugins"

(cat <<'EOF'

trixie-test

# Delete user pi if it exists
# https://github.com/gitbls/sdm/blob/master/Docs/Plugins.md#user
user:deluser=pi

# Add a new user ** change 'myuser' and 'mypassword' **
user:adduser=myuser|password=mypassword

# Install apps
# https://github.com/gitbls/sdm/blob/master/Docs/Plugins.md#apps
apps:name=mybrowsers|apps=firefox,chromium-browser
apps:name=mytools|apps=keychain,lsof,iperf3,dnsutils

# Configure network ** change 'myssid' and 'mywifipassword' **
# https://github.com/gitbls/sdm/blob/master/Docs/Plugins.md#network
network:ifname=wlan0|wifissid=myssid|wifipassword=mywifipassword|wificountry=US

# This configuration eliminates the need for piwiz so disable it
disables:piwiz

# Uncomment to enable trim on all disks
# https://github.com/gitbls/sdm/blob/master/Docs/Plugins.md#trim-enable
#trim-enable

# Configure localization settings to the same as this system
# https://github.com/gitbls/sdm/blob/master/Docs/Plugins.md#l10n
L10n:host

sshhostkey

EOF
    ) | bash -c "cat >>$assets/my.plugins"

$sudo sdm --customize --plugin @$assets/my.plugins --extend --xmb 2048 --restart --apt-options noupdate,noupgrade,noautoremove $img

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This is no longer necessary, so I've removed the plugin.