The dep chain is kali-system-gui > kali-system-cli > kali-system-core.
kali-system-cli contains wget and curl, which we probably want to have,
and will fix https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/kali-purple/documentation/-/issues/9
I'm not sure about kali-system-gui, but I have the impression that it
was the intention to install it in Kali Purple, but at some point it was
forgotten and we install kali-system-core instead.
Other things that I tried, but that didn't work, below:
I tried adding the preseed to simple-cdd/profiles/kali-purple.preseed,
however that didn't work, I guess that this preseed file is loaded only
later during installation, and that at this point the GUI was already
loaded and it's too late to set the theme.
I also tried to do this in simple-cdd.conf:
# Theming
if echo " $profiles " | grep -q " kali-purple "; then
export KERNEL_PARAMS="${KERNEL_PARAMS} debian-installer/theme=Clearlooks-Purple "
fi
But it doesn't work, seemingly 'profiles' is not set when simple-cdd
loads the conf, and even though we build with the command:
build-simple-cdd [...] --profiles "$profiles" [...]
Given the fact that uppercase variables are exported, and what we
actually want to change is KERNEL_PARAMS, it seems that the most
straightforward is just to preset it from build.sh.
build.sh:
Note that the installer-purple variant does NOT include the offline
profile, that's on purpose. There's no requirement for this installer to
work offline, and on top of that, we can't include all the packages in
the iso at the moment (the package exploitdb-papers is too big). So we
very much expect to have network, and to download big packages during
the installation.
See next commits for more details.
kali-config/installer-purple/packages:
Unlike other variants, the "base" metapackage is kali-system-core,
which is a very stripped down metapackage with no offensive tools.
(kali-system-core is basically what used to be kali-linux-core, minus
the few offensive tools that were in there).
Arnaud Rebillout