FS#69575 - Request for including libimobiledevice in the ArchISO for iPhone tethering users

Attached to Project: Release Engineering
Opened by oldherl (oldherl) - Sunday, 07 February 2021, 14:32 GMT
Last edited by David Runge (dvzrv) - Tuesday, 16 February 2021, 16:21 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category ArchISO
Status Closed
Assigned To David Runge (dvzrv)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Some users rely on iPhone tethering for Internet access. For example, they might live in a rural area and don't have fiber / landline ADSL service in the area and use 4G data tethered from their iPhone instead. libimobiledevice is essential for them to connect to the iPhone tethering network. Currently, ArchISO doesn't include this package, so they have to download this package and its dependencies prior to a fresh installation.

I am requesting to include this libimobiledevice package and its dependencies in the ArchISO to ease the installation process for those users. There are only 4 packages altogether (libplist libusbmuxd usbmuxd libimobiledevice) and only < 1 MiB in total, and all are of free licensing.
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Closed by  David Runge (dvzrv)
Tuesday, 16 February 2021, 16:21 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  Implemented per https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/a rchiso/-/issues/99
Comment by David Runge (dvzrv) - Sunday, 07 February 2021, 14:58 GMT
@oldherl: Thanks for the report!

This is certainly something we can include.
Comment by oldherl (oldherl) - Tuesday, 16 February 2021, 15:49 GMT
Thanks. Will it be in the 2021.03 image?
Comment by David Runge (dvzrv) - Tuesday, 16 February 2021, 16:17 GMT
@oldherl: Thanks for the reminder. I will open a merge request for that.
Comment by nl6720 (nl6720) - Tuesday, 16 February 2021, 16:20 GMT
From a quick read, it looks like it would be more correct to add usbmuxd since that's the one that performs all the magic. Other mentioned packages would get pulled in as deps.

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