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The issue that appeared pretty hard to diagnose occured
to be the enhancement made in make-initrd-propagator=0.8.1-alt1.2
(that didn't hit Sisyphus until merged into 0.10-alt1) which
drops propagator dependency.
And that was optimized out in m-p, of course.
The added pdir check was a hillarious(tm) overlooked bug indeed:
I tried to put .../initfs/initfs instead of .../initfs as the result.
Duly spotted by torabora@, thanks a lot.
Still the kmod+propagator+kernel-image combo needed some tweaking too,
see #27640
The issue actually hit image.in/Makefile: "metadata" target
in features.in/metadata/lib/50-metadata.mk wasn't reached
even if features.in/build-distro/lib/90-build-distro.mk
would ACK that the "whatever" actions included "metadata";
thus Metadata/pkg-groups.tar wasn't created and the installer
silently failed to install the .base system.
Let's armour the rest of the cases where the order of inclusion
might be important as well.
It's pretty ugly but dropping the current way
means losing the dependency tracking which is
critical to get the required alterator module
into install2.
Thanks mithraen@ for spotting, boyarsh@ for explaining,
and legion@ for hearty support :)
The problem would manifest itself like this:
/.host/script.sh: line 20: /usr/lib64/propagator/initfs: \
No such file or directory
mki-scripts: .../stage1/scripts.d/80-make-initfs: unable to run script.
Thanks Serg Markov for bringing my attention to this:
http://www.opennet.ru/openforum/vsluhforumID3/86552.html#61
While the official distros might skip some filesystems for
support reasons there's no reason for community distros to
do so either.
Let's try that with icewm.iso...
NB: installer has a misfeature of dropping jfs/reiserfs
support in runtime unless "expertmode" magic word
is on the kernel bootargs string (#27763, #17368).
Its immediate purpose was influencing the GRUB boot menu
*but* the implemented mechanism is actually a part of the
long planned text branding and might be further merged
into branding when hierarchical features finally chime in.
So let's get the naming straight before it breeds.
See http://www.opennet.ru/openforum/vsluhforumID3/86239.html#1
for a query that has led to this one; in particular,
- xdm dropped (won't log in root and there are no users yet);
- network is brought up and configured via DHCP by default;
- apt-get works out-of-box;
- default image size is twice the chroot size.
3.5.2-std-def-alt2 brings boot problems which were absent
with 3.4.x-std-def and are absent with 3.5.x-un-def;
seems like it's better to stay with known good variant
at the moment instead of having to fall back to it.
hsh-initroot leaves the chroot's root directory permissions
as 1775 while these should really be 755 at most; let's fix it
(important for both VE and VM images, useful for rescue/livecd
ones as well -- especially those with an installer onboard).
The missing "; @:" at the end of the otherwise recipeless rule
resulted in target graph being broken; I should have checked this
when introducing these aliases (the intent was to reduce noise).
Not even alpha quality yet but at least debuggable:
- X session doesn't autostart but service dm start works;
- keyboard layout indicator is missing until started by hand.
There's a bunch of additions to the MATE package list:
thanks viy@ for pulling extras into autoimports,
several more tweaks done due to hints by dek@,
and openssh packages added for debugging convenience.
The kernel's been changed for the latest one (un-def).
This isn't ready for general consumption (just as centos one)
but the notion of REPO is floating around along with apt-conf
thoughts, and it might still be useful to someone poking around
conf.d/test.mk.
Request hasher-pkg-init.spec from mike@ or led@ if interested;
the experiments were carried out using openSUSE 11.4 repository
and slightly patched hasher (cpio blacklist for devices).
This part of docs was pleading to put it into a small shell
script; it was done to facilitate kas@' debugging efforts
so that qemu-system-ppc might eventually get fixed, thus
livecd-qemu-arch package now "obsoletes" this file.
Thanks both drool@ for his mild frustration with the current
documentation as well as Greg Kroah-Hartman, Heikki Orsila
and Neil Brown for http://lwn.net/Articles/504814/ -- the docs
should really emphasize *why* something is done, not *how*,
as the "how" part is better documented with the code itself
(that doesn't mean that "the big picture" isn't needed).
That sub/stage2/install2 was somewhat clumsy actually as it looked
like a hierarchical thing while being a substitution thing:
generic stage2 would get put in place renamed as install2.
This could only get worse with hierarchical features which have
already been both requested and considered for quite a time,
and "stage2 at install2" reads much more naturally.
There were heaps of "if type -t git" there already;
it wasn't an unintentional mishap but rather a moderate
copy-paste to get the use cases, and now these seem to
have essentially settled.
So time to scrap some dups.
NB: the scripts in the generated profile can't rely on
the contents of the metaprofile (these need to be able
to work in standalone case either), so a bit of crap
still lurks there.
Found myself pretty silly while sittin' at the rescue console
and bein' unable to leave the cool server room for a way
more comfortable armchair and a laptop's keyboard...
(yes, it was that disk array needing GPT tools)
Another feature suggested by Michael Radyuk (torabora):
some images are known alpha/beta quality, it's more handy
to just state this at the build time than to rename by hand.
This trots along the TODO item on text branding
and hopefully helps Michael Radyuk (torabora)
with his feature request to tweak the installer's
"Install ALT Linux" label; as an example, Simply
will now offer to "Install Simply Linux".
The package actually passed the test and just got uploaded
to Sisyphus proper; its aim is to help set up the cross-arch
QEMU build environment.
NB: there are known issues with PPC32-on-x86_64 (which were
the cause for this package and commit to be created in the
first place).
Some images were unbuildable (at least without special setup,
like ve/centos), unusable or just not useful in any meaningful way
(like distro/live-isomd5sum); as these tend to get any attention
during experiments, I decided to put them together in a separate
configuration file that would be effectively skipped if DEBUG
is not requested.
This one was suggested by enp@ for industrial use where
some extra protection for the boot process might be quite
desirable.
If no syslinux ui was specified (the stock configuration paths
ensure there is one) or if it was set to "none" explicitly,
then there's no boot: prompt (let alone any menu).
If there's a need to ensure that the boot process is not
interruptable by Ctrl/Shift/Caps Lock/Scroll Lock.
The prerequisites for a cleanup after a successful build
were somewhat weird at this point; now the rules are:
- if DEBUG level is more than 1 or CHECK is set, don't do it;
- otherwise if at least one of the following conditions is true:
+ there's more than one target being built in a row;
+ the build was run by e.g. alterator-mkimage;
+ metaprofile directory is read only
...then do a distclean.
If these are still weird or feel unsuitable for profile hacking,
drop me a note (or a patch).
Essentially all the relevant server images got cpufreq setup
and a power button handler; feel free to ask for revert if
this causes any harm in any situation.
`help' used to be the default target described at the very top
of the toplevel makefile but that got broken with g2f307ff;
spotted while discussing m-p with enp@.
Also pulled the pkglist/kmodule part out of distro/server-mini's
recipe and started off a standalone feature based on it.
NB: el-smp kernel now contains aufs as a module but propagator
doesn't try to modprobe it.
Actually the templates pretending to be usable missed the whole
interactivesystem (sysvinit would get pulled in by services as well).
Fixed somewhat but time and practice will tell.
TDE distros don't really need kdm4 which was proposed as
a replacement by zerg@ (for all the valid reasons but kdm3
wasn't maintained at that point, this has changed since).
The reason is that package lists and individual packages
are processed in different dependency resolution "transactions"
by mkimage; thus if packages (the more precise form of specifying
the contents) come first they can't override the lists appearing
later, and that's wrong: we should be able to specify the more
generic things and then pinpoint the specifics.
This became apparent while authoring [[Mkimage/Profiles/m-p/howto]]
asked for by drool@.
The problem was spotted by Alexander Bandura:
bin/tar2vm wasn't present in the generated profile.
I considered extending features.in/Makefile to include
bin/ alongside lib/ but that would make the helper's location
unpredictable (unless BUILDDIR is specified explicitly) so
restricting sudoers would be harder; worse yet, the copied file
would come with write access for the user building an image.
The implications in restricted case are complex enough anyways
so the recommended implementation would only include a fixed
readonly location like /usr/share/mkimage-profiles/bin/tar2vm
as laid out in doc/vm.txt, and that means it's in the metaprofile
not a generated profile.
As it happens, adding another architecture required almost no changes;
native 32-bit ppc build took only ARCH and a repo, qemu-ppc one still
has problems (/.host/entry hangs while unpacking setup for fakedata).
Proof of concept on a QS22:
$ make ve/bare.tar.gz
** ARCH: ppc
/bin/sh: rpmvercmp: command not found
21:41:01 cleaning up
21:41:03 initializing BUILDDIR: build/
21:41:03 preparing distro config
21:41:05 starting image build (coffee time)
21:42:48 done (1:42)
** image: $TMP/out/bare-20120716-ppc.tar.gz [21M]
mkimage and hasher can make use of qemu to run
non-native binaries while working on the chroots;
thanks kas@, manowar@ and sbolshakov@ for implementing
this functionality as well as providing nice examples
through mkimage-profiles-arm and mkimage-profile-armrootfs.
This required the architecture check to be added since baking
a tarball with "arm" as its specified arch and x86_64 inside
isn't particularly good thing to let slip through; however
the implementation is quite fragile, bugreports and patches
are seriously welcome.
NB: APTCONF evaluation order between lazy make and nimble shell
turned out to be quite a delicate issue in this particular case.
The only thing to be fixed was setarch(8) symlinks assumption
that is correct for x86 but not for ARM.
There's also some hasher(7) setup to be done:
mkdir -p ~/.hasher
echo >> ~/.hasher/config <<-EOF
def_target=arm
#cache_dir=$HOME/tmp # depends on RAM/storage configuration
EOF
...and of course apt(8) should be properly set up too.
An example PoC build on a CM-A510 board (tmpfs):
$ make BRANDING=altlinux-centaurus ve/bare.tar.gz
** ARCH: arm
18:10:45 initializing BUILDDIR: build/
18:10:45 preparing distro config: build/distcfg.mk
18:10:46 starting image build: tail -f build/build.log
18:14:49 done (4:02)
** image: $TMP/out/bare-20120706-arm.tar.gz [23M]
The very basic bitmap fonts that were left in back a year ago
aren't particularly modern (even if they are somewhat elegant
and resource sparing which was the goal at that time).
So let's allow for something slightly prettier,
like Croscore Arimo kindly prepared by Steve Matteson,
provided by Google, packaged by Fedora and imported by
Igor Vlasenko.
Here's the news item behind this commit:
http://lwn.net/Articles/502371/
As they say there's nothing more permanent
than a temporary... params.txt and pkglists.txt
were known as vars-build.txt and vars-conf.mk
in the midst of reworking, and part of that
tried to stick.
mkimage implementation requires that the variables
to be passed to the scripts are to be prefixed with
GLOBAL_ or INFO_ tags as appropriate; in this case
the upstream makefile didn't care to.
It's better to rather just move the raw image instead
of specifically converting it into the same, and there's
no need for qemu-img altogether then.
Let's drop the intermediate raw image after successful
conversion as well.
Setup network settings:
1. Init /etc/hosts with "127.0.0.1 localhost"
2. Set hostname, domainname
3. Set defaults for NetworkManager or
attempt to autoconfigure eth0 by etcnet.
Based on init3-network script from m-p-d.
Minor tweaks to toplevel docs as well as some doc/*.txt,
doc/variables.txt renamed to doc/params.txt, and a brand new
doc/pkglists.txt is added (thanks manowar@ for his considerations).
This one was requested by Andrew Churashev; please note
that the image in use must contain recent flash plugin
so that at least the already known vulnerabilities are
more or less plugged in it... and Sun Java plugin isn't
going to get secure either.
A virtual machine isn't very useful if there are no means
to access it; let's bring up the basic networking and provide
root SSH access via pre-existing public key.
As the remote access with known default credentials is roughly
equivalent to just lending one's VMs to anyone with network
access to it, the fallback root password is now exterminated;
you have to provide one (or a long enough random string
if you plan to use keys only, see e.g. apg utility).
There's no need to repeat the typical openssh-* triade
all over the place; those who need server and client
are better off pulling in "openssh" pkglist, and those
needing a particular package should specify it.
It appears that reusing installer-feature-*-stage3 packages
is perfectly fine with VM images; these just need to be removed
after the package scripts they carry have worked out.
Raw disk images are convenient and universal
but there are custom formats like Qemu's qcow2
providing additional features, e.g. copy-on-write
or space savings. All of this ultimately belongs
to mkimage but in the mean time has been implemented
here as well.
Yes, mkimage-profiles is now able to build VM disk images.
So far the support is pretty basic:
- a single hard drive image with a single partition/FS
- only stock root password is configurable
- LILO is hardwired as a bootloader
The resulting images tend to boot under qemu/kvm though.
Please see doc/vm.txt for the warning regarding additional
privileges and setup required. This was started back in
February but I still hoped to avoid sudo/privileged helper
(and libguestfs is almost as undistributable as can be)...
Thanks:
- http://blog.quinthar.com/2008/07/building-1gb-bootable-qemu-image-using.html
- Alexey Morarash who reworked that as https://github.com/tuxofil/linsygen
- led@, legion@, vitty@, aen@ for providing advice and inspiration
autologin won't register a consolekit session, and gnomes
are too greedy regarding sessions to let us go unmolested...
This particular image isn't production ready when built on
current Sisyphus yet due to unresolved NM/dbus problems
but I decided to at least archive the reached state.
This one is contributed by Max Kosmach and somewhat
streamlined/tweaked by me; a part of it rather belongs to
nodm and xinitrc packages but is not exactly trivial to get it
there due to the looming systemd-logind/consolekit disaster;
see also #27449.
Several hacks to make NetworkManager usable in a LiveCD environment
are there too (but it resists so far).
Why would anyone try to remove apt when it's needed
for package dependency tracking for the installation,
it only takes a less cursory look at the build.log
to figure out it didn't actually happen anyways...
An initial draft of it was done half a year ago but several tricky
thingies had kept the code from showing up as it was rather brittle
and incomplete.
This implementation involves quite a few changes all over the place
but finally works good enough for live and installer images.
Please pay attention to the versions of these packages:
- installer-feature-setup-plymouth (0.3.2-alt1+)
- branding-altlinux-sisyphus (20110706-alt2+ if used)
- plymouth (0.8.3-alt20.git20110406+)
See also:
- http://www.altlinux.org/Branding
- http://www.altlinux.org/Plymouth
It somehow managed to evade me that $(TMP) might be uninitialized;
definitely should be checked before stuffing into sed substitution
command.
NB: this could be done in pure make but my take was less readable.
Thanks shadowsbrother/gmail for hitting and reporting this.
It might be spottable but not immediately obvious that a feature
lives entirely in features.in/FEATURE and every target it provides
is described in the corresponding config.mk; thanks dkr@ for asking.
Just like livecd-install, graphical installer KMS support
looks better as an optional part of install2 feature.
Of course it's optional only if the release manager is fine
with VESA drivers and not KMS-requiring intel/radeon/nouveau;
thanks led@ for a confirmation just in case.
After having added metadata dependency livecd-install
started to look more like a feature than like an intermediate
distribution target; so things were shuffled a bit that way.
This further refines the modular build by making
metadata being a clearly separated feature rather
than having to rely on runtime tests, and also by
moving the code which cares for kernel bits of base
installation (.base list) in a feature of its own.
There's more to it but let's get the ball rolling first.
The initial work covered live images but missed an installer bit
(thus notes and slideshow were missing in install2) while forgetting
to put branding packages into base list (thus kindly making these
available for *manual* installation sometime after, ouch).
It's hard to tell a successful build from a failed one
if downstream hides the exit code; it's useless to continue
a `for' loop if a pipe shoves that to a subshell; well it seems
that a bashism is worth a thousand quirks with extra fds here.
Minor regexp enhancements are also due.
reports.mk made a bit more resilient/prudent either.
NB: for the feature to work properly the chosen branding
package set should have proper Provides: and Conflicts:,
specifically it must explicitly conflict with the most
lexicographically cool package set around (these days
it's sisyphus-server-light).
As duly noted by glebfm@, branding issues need more attention
by now since only stage1/install2 got some of it so far in this
regard. Hence the dedicated feature comes to the rescue
(well no, it doesn't actually mess with rescue!).
Following m-p-d, a more involved default output directory
structure is feasible now:
~/out/name/date/name-date-arch.type
instead of plain
~/out/name-date-arch.type
This particular behaviour can be achieved by passing
SORTDIR='$(IMAGE_NAME)/$(DATE)'; note the single quotes.
Reports are also saved in this resulting structure
albeit the place is still highly debatable.
use/slinux-live: in p6 slinux had install-dvd version too
lists/slinux/misc-dvd: user 3d-proprietary comes from use/x11/3d-proprietary
lists/slinux/misc-dvd:restore compiz
slinux: use/syslinux/localboot.cfg
Sometimes it's desirable to provide the kernel supporting
maximal amount of RAM on the system; bad news is that x86
has a kludge named PAE, good news is that x86_64 doesn't
need it at all; but now we must be able to choose between
those.
BIGRAM will hold the flavour needed.
This script specifies the (excessive) lists of services
to be enabled and disabled explicitly; these are mostly based
on profiles/live/image-scripts.d/init3-services from m-p-d.
There might be systemd related pecularities though...
The early version considered ISO and KOI encoding families
as obsolete; the current one is a bit more wise and knows
these are just /rare/. Thanks glebfm@ for #27168 research
and cinnamon by slava@ for ISO-related noises at startup.
There's no real reason to keep bcmwl and ndiswrapper
around exclusively as the currently available support
vastly takes over the early attempts at the task.
(it's not about bare firmware though, and some day
something like use/hardware/wireless should get in)
Initial SPICE support has been added for kvm/libvirt installation
and boot-up using qxl and spice by default as proposed by shaba@.
VirtualBox part is shifted a level deeper correspondingly
but otherwise stays the same.
It is actually an effort by glebfm@ to create an experimental
systemd-based Simply Linux LiveCD; I merely reviewed the original
diff, moved kernel related bits to firmware (see preceding commits)
and introduced a dedicated pkglist namespace by creating a directory.
THE_PACKAGES_REGEXP is in place, let's rebase firmware packages
so these would be available in LiveCDs either.
The news for systems being installed is that MAIN_* is optional
while THE_* is included in base system; firmware packages tend
to be pretty tiny and harmless.
kernel-wifi pkglist has absolutely no sense by now, hence purged;
firmware-rt* and firmware-i2400m are merged into firmware-linux.
There were STAGE1_PACKAGES_REGEXP and MAIN_PACKAGES_REGEXP
but adding more of those was postponed to avoid bloat and
bitrot; THE_PACKAGES_REGEXP is needed for use/firmware now
and looks like BASE_PACKAGES_REGEXP and LIVE_PACKAGES_REGEXP
will be useful before too long either.
Docs updated to include stage-specific package related vatiables.
A pretty common issue breaking the image build is inter-package
file conflict resulting in hsh-install failure down there.
Let's bring that back to attention conveniently.
glebfm@ asked what to do with new package lists: whether these
belong to features, or to distributions themselves. This question
is actually open and up for discussion but there are guidelines
that can and should be written down already; and so they were.
Added pkgdups utility reference as well.
Multiple ARCHES won't just magically work without
the ability to figure out the correct apt.conf;
fortunately there's just the right example handy
in profiles.mk.sample already.
Thanks glebfm@ for feedback.
Looks like the 128k default block size is pretty well chosen:
it saves ~6% of image size compared to 64k, and subsequent
differences are ~3% per doubling the block size up to 1M
(thanks led@ for carrying out the tests).
So we'll stick with 256k for "normal" xz compression (inodes
uncompressed) and get 512k back for "tight" one (compressed).
The runtime performance issues are to be examined yet when
bootchart or the like is deployed, nothing drastic though.
With "fast" (gzip/lzo) squash compression inodes go unmolested.
For the record, tight live-webkiosk builds as 95M image in 3:40,
and tight live-flightgear.iso builds as 669M image in 6:34. Nice.
There's no much sense going for 1M block size: e.g. live-webkiosk
would drop to 93M (3:46) but its load time would increase up to
2:07 as compared to 1:48 for -b 524288 and 1:42 for -b 262144 -noI
on a Duron 500/512M system given the very same DVD+RW media.
The existing implementation would handle kernel differences
just fine but a bit too automatically: if it sees xz support,
that's what will end up being used (and if there's -Xbcj binary
compression filter available for the target platform, it will
be applied unequivocally either).
It's perfectly suitabe for getting fine-tuned release images
but is also a bit too resource-consuming while developing the
image configuration which has no business with its compression.
The one and only knob is SQUASHFS (see doc/variables.txt);
to give an idea of the differences, here are some numbers
for a mostly-binary (43% as per 99-elf-stats) webkiosk livecd
and a rather less so (18%) flightgear one on a dual quad-core
X5570 node (each mksquashfs run used up all the cores):
SQUASHFS | live-webkiosk.iso | live-flightgear.iso
---------+-------------------+---------------------
fast | 3:30 / 130M | 5:11 / 852M
normal * | 3:37 / 100M | 5:35 / 688M
tight | 3:50 / 98M | 6:47 / 683M
Thus if the knob isn't fiddled with, the defaults will allow
for a reasonably fast build of a pretty slim image; if one is
building a release or if a particular image is very sensitive
being close to the media capacity then just add SQUASHFS=tight
and see it a percent or two down on size.
Please note that lzo/gzip-compressed images are also quicker
to uncompress thus further helping with test iterations.
Thanks to led@ and glebfm@ for helpful hints and questions.
APM enabled notebooks would usually hibernate to
a partition of special type and special format;
thus to make use of this APM BIOS feature folks
might need a corresponding formatter.
This kind of test was proposed by led@ to gather statistics
on chroot's contents going to become squashfs (the script
optimizations lowering added overhead from ~10 sec down
to a subsecond range were also proposed by him).
Intentionally not documented in doc/variables.txt due to
the rather lowlevel nature of the probe (at least so far).
The knobs involved are SQUASHFS (the additional effort kicks
in only for "tight" case) and GLOBAL_SQUASHFS_SORT (must be
non-empty for this extra overhead to occur).
Additional experimentation is needed to find out whether
the difference in squashfs size and performance is worth
the trouble (seems the impact is non-zero but pretty minor).
There is at least one known deficiency for mkimage-profiles:
build.log will be truncated if verbose mode is enabled and
hasher version is lower than 1.3.22.
The check is done here since it's where the logging is arranged,
and doing it in image.in/Makefile would result in the warning
about log-truncating software being truncated by the said software.
Thanks Max Kosmach for reporting this inobviousity.
The output was still somewhat ragged in 80x24 terminal window
with fmt(1) which wasn't anticipating the word length difference
subsequent column(1) would have to cope with later on.
Thanks Loic Cattani for his shell columnizer implementation:
https://github.com/Arko/Columnize
Thanks snejok@ for spotting the missing, I didn't get around
to tests with headphones...
Also fixed nouveau getting in after target shuffling,
and tweaked firefox homepage to be useful in this context.
- incompatible change (to fix the rather broken early style):
use/syslinux/ui-% is now use/syslinux/ui/%;
- default timeout changed to 9 seconds (long enough and keeps
the countdown in a single figure);
- added totaltimeout of 300 seconds;
- provided live kiosk images with almost-instant boot by default;
...and some other assorted tweaks here and there, sorry.
Thanks to a reviewer who came with useful feedback and a goal:
http://www.opennet.ru/openforum/vsluhforumID3/83728.html#136
the live-webkiosk image got forked into a separate one:
- dropped DRI, virtualbox GA, mc & co, docs, rpmdb;
- added Russian keyboard layout (ctrl+shift to toggle);
- rebased live-webkiosk onto live-webkiosk-mini ;-)
Maybe vbox guest additions will get back but rpmdb is a bit
impractical on a kiosk squashfs image, even in presence of
aufs rw overlay.
Now is the time for all fonts to be pulled in when needed and not
along with the X server and hardware drivers; tablet support is
moved to a (preexisting) specific target either.
There's no need now to arch-discriminate a few older drivers too.
There's much reason for reuse instead of duplication
among the different stage2-based subprofiles.
In particular, the rather monolithic driver cleanup script
of the ancient is better done in several clear pieces with
the final depmod run.
Scripts dropping apt/rpm databases will dump pkglist first.
A script purging /boot/* will honour live-install if present.
Minor inno^Wfixups all over the map too.
This one should help (erm... hope not the other way around!)
testing both 3D setup and FlightGear packages I happen to
maintain in a known clean environment.
The previous configuration would result in intel-only
3D being available since nouveau and radeon kernel modules
are packaged separately with most kernel-images; getting
NVIDIA/AMD drivers in is more tricky due to availability
of both proprietary and free implementations with the choice
being rather a tradeoff in each case (somewhat less so with
ATI/AMD drivers).
So this is a first shot at the problem: FlightGear would
freeze on me with today's nouveau.
As was noted by Alexey Shabalin in libosinfo context,
current ALT Linux images tend to lack ISO9660 metadata
-- which they did have back in the day of Master 2.4.
Please note that the data collection occurs this way
due to mkimage's config.mk resetting the values to be
empty; this was worked around by using another config
file, $(BUILDDIR)lib/iso.mk, and including it later
but that would require a separate target with per-target
CONFIG variable which isn't elegant at all given the need
to actually build up the metadata set.
So the variables were changed (to be more readable anyways)
and then proxied back to BOOT_*. This might be cleaned up
some day after the inclusion order is tweaked or mkimage
defaults get set-if-unset-yet (?=).
openssh-server is in need indeed on almost any server instance;
thanks Aleksey Cheusov for reporting the shortage.
This might be amended in the future but is reasonable right now.
As noted in doc/assumptions.txt, the SHELL based target tracing
only works for rules with recipes, even empty but present ones.
The simplest thing to do is hooking "; @:" onto the rule's tail
(one-liner with a non-printing shell builting "true" command).
The purpose is being able to examine particular target interdependency
graph for a given image having been configured to avoid convoluted
dependencies (loops in particular).
The implementation is based on SHELL hook hint by John Graham-Cumming:
http://cmcrossroads.com/ask-mr-make/6535-tracing-rule-execution-in-gnu-make
It looks like the intermediate targets aren't all equal:
some define a finished feature while some create a common
lower level piece of configuration.
Let's do shortcuts for the former so that a distro line can be
more terse and descriptive; help targets in features.in/ tweaked
accordingly.
There are pseudo-distro targets that are useful to combine
the needed bits and pieces for a few more different end-user
images but that are useless themselves (e.g. desktop-base
wouldn't even start X session before someone would have
installed a window manager).
Let's just hide these under the hood so that `make help',
`make everything' and potential frontends don't bother.
The package list taken from mkimage-profiles-desktop
and trimmed down due to current TDE packaging difference
as well as extras being defined elsewhere.
ltsp-icewm used to be the only ALTSP (testbed) distro over here
but now its terminal server part works good enough to seperate
it from the UI part.
A few additions to facilitate testing, tweaking and benchmarking:
iftop, openssh-server, mplayer
If we have a supported display manager, we should rather autoconfigure
that one for autologin instead of configuring autologin package:
those tend to play better with "modern" session management in terms
of runlevel control etc.
xdm doesn't really differ though.
TODO: maybe skip autologin *package* configuration if any dm found
in the live image-script?
From what I've read so far, most of the code should run on 3.80;
there seem to have been some bits that are dependent on 3.81
features, but there is not a bit that depends on 3.82+ features
so far.
It's preferred for Razor-qt's logout app to be able to turn
the system off or reboot it; xdm lacks consolekit support.
Thanks Alexander Sokoloff for the hint.
If there's an ethernet interface, a DHCP client, and these
can result in connectivity out-of-box, then it's rather
a feature for almost any LiveCD.
Thus the configuration script is moved from dev feature
to live one with the addition of dhcpcd/dhclient test.
This is asking for some more neat solution though...
As it happens, I've stumbled upon a successfully built image
with alterator-grub in BASE and lilo in install2's installer-steps.
Of course the installer bailed out after dealing with packages :-/
Thanks Leo-sp50 for pointing out the (hopefully) right direction.
There's still an annoying problem (a race?) manifesting itself
as installer bailing out between packages installation and lilo
setup with X segfault in logs; while the culprit is not known yet,
let's avoid that for most images by moving the bootloader request
from the former "leaf" target (which noe became a "node") into an
experimental server-systemd one.
Thanks Leo-sp50 for bringing that to my attention again; see also
http://forum.russ2.com/index.php?showtopic=3310&pid=31364&st=0&#entry31364
As was duly noted by Leo-sp50, both server.mk and desktop.mk
duplicate a few bits layered over bare distro/installer which
happened to be both a dependency (thus should reduce redundancy)
and a "real distro" target (well, it doesn't just work yet, need
to provide networking and sources.list in install2 by hand).
Fixed by moving a "node" to distro/.installer along with typical
additions and leaving a bare installer as is by now; there's a
need to get it working at least for DHCP/ftp.altlinux.org case.
From now on, non-empty SAVE_PROFILE variable will indicate
the need to carry the particular generated profile inside
the image built from it.
Thanks gns@ for this feature in liveflash.eeepc.
So far the tagged scripts concept is too fragile,
and these were used unconditionally anyways.
features.in/Makefile is broken regarding copying
tagged scripts right now...
This one starts up a Firefox session in kiosk mode
(there are several extensions, I find hsv@'s one
preferable) and tries to browse /image/index.html
which corresponds to index.html in the image root
(could be edited by means of e.g. isomaster).
It's rather unexpected that someone would do an X11 LiveCD
without user autologin -- but even if that's the case,
then this waypoint is just not used for it.
Courtesy of prividen@, there's actual x86_64 client support in ALTSP.
Although led@ tells that it's i586 optimization that hurts on i686+
and should be replaced with either i486 or i686 for that matter...
A larger block size was recommended by led@;
gns@ seems to concur as the 512k value was borrowed
from liveflash.eeepc profile (along with -noI).
The other issue is with binary specific compressors:
x86 was clearly assumed while the data for an educated
guess are pretty handy. Please note that using filters
incurs additional compression attempts for the utility
to choose the best result.
sed -i "s/at_console=\"true\"/user=\"$USER\"/" "$NODM_DBUS_NM_CONF"
fi
NODM_G2KR_DIR=/etc/skel/.gnome2/keyrings
mkdir -p "$NODM_G2KR_DIR"
echo -n login > "$NODM_G2KR_DIR"/default
cat > "$NODM_G2KR_DIR"/login.keyring << _EOF_
[keyring]
display-name=login
ctime=0
mtime=0
lock-on-idle=false
lock-after=false
_EOF_
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