Neofetch on XCP-NG

Ascar

Hello, everyone.

I am curious what is Vates' standing on neofetch installation/use on XCP-NG. Discouraged? Neutral?
If neutral how do I install it? These approaches did not work
yum install neofetch --enablerepo=base,updates
yum install neofetch --enablerepo=konimex/neofetch

Thank you

DustinB

@Ascar said in Neofetch on XCP-NG:

Hello, everyone.

I am curious what is Vates' standing on neofetch installation/use on XCP-NG. Discouraged? Neutral?
If neutral how do I install it? These approaches did not work
yum install neofetch --enablerepo=base,updates
yum install neofetch --enablerepo=konimex/neofetch

Thank you

XCP-ng is a type one hypervisor. No Type 1 hypervisor in the world should be installed as a secondary package, from a practical Technical Engineering standpoint or modified outside of the default installation from a third party.

You're introducing a lot of risk because you have a non-standard installation of the hypervisor.

This is adding risk and complexity for no reasonable explanation as far as I can tell.

Danp

@DustinB Not sure that I understand your answer as it appears to me that @Ascar wants to deploy an additional package (neofetch) on the XCP-ng installation.

@Ascar said in Neofetch on XCP-NG:

These approaches did not work

Can you provide more details? What error messages did you receive?

FWIW, I know nothing about this package other than what I just looked up on the net. It seems that this tool is no longer being developed, so it may not be wise to deploy in this situation. What happens if / when a vulnerability is found?

Forza

Isn't neofetch just a bash script. Just copy it and run...

Ascar

@Forza Not a bash script, a package that requires installation. XCP-NG has all repos wisely disabled. That's why installing it on this specific type of host is not a trivial task.

Ascar

@Danp Well, it is just a user-definable system summary that may be run on demand or when the terminal session starts. CPU/Memory utilization etc.

Oliver was involved in a discussion related to XCP-NG logo coloring for Neofetch, however this was long time ago. At that time he did not say anything like 'Don't do it, it is bad for your host'.

https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/issues/491
https://doc.netwaze.fr/books/xcp-ng/page/neofetch-xcp-ng

I can live without it, but it does not harm to have Neofetch on the host for a quick glimpse at the resources.

undu created this issue in xcp-ng/xcp

open ASCII-based logo for xcp-ng #491

Forza

@Ascar said in Neofetch on XCP-NG:

@Forza Not a bash script, a package that requires installation. XCP-NG has all repos wisely disabled. That's why installing it on this specific type of host is not a trivial task.

Sure it is packaged for many distros, but it is just a bash script.

Neofetch is a command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+

https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch

Neofetch only requires BASH, the rest of the dependencies are entirely optional

https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/wiki/Dependencies

But to state what others already said, it is not recommended to install stuff in dom0.