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distro/.base target used to pull in localboot syslinux config
snippet which might be too early for some of the further distros;
it's a quite fragile equilibrium which was shifted a bit by imz@
(see #26606). Feel free to reopen the discussion though, things
might be tweaked so that localboot might be desirable on almost
every image even if with lower priority...
It was actually trivial given that the script was already
maintained as a package by enp@ and msp@; its usage requires
one to manually partition the target disk and optionally
mkswap in advance.
It's now possible to:
- make distro/server-ovz.iso;
- make distro/server-ovz-netinst.iso;
- publish the former image's contents on ftp.linux.kiev.ua;
- boot the latter (~17M) image and enjoy the netinstall ;-)
The catch is that the stage2 (altinst file) location has to be
hardwired into syslinux config snippet for things to happen
automatically -- even if it can be specified manually in case
of failure.
The other catch is that currently a netinstall image is somewhat
tied to the particular image it installs since stage1 kernel and
stage2 modules must correspond strictly (the typical symptoms of
the glitch would be missing mouse driver and weird "permission
denied" errors during an attempt to partition the hard drives).
It might be desirable to provide multi-distro netinstall image...
We've got some parts of it in build-distro feature,
and some went to dev feature for no real reason.
But a bare installer might go without package base,
and LiveCDs other than live-builder might find local
repository useful given aufs2 root overlay.
Now the overall scheme is more straightforward:
- a distro:
+ asks that a package repo be included
+ cares to further add the packages to it
- a repo feature:
+ pulls in sub/main for it to happen
+ provides genbasedir script to create repo metadata
+ supplements live feature with repo configuration
This is a base for "media check" to become available:
using this feature will implant a checksum into the image
so that it can be verified during install.
Also added a test/demo distro/live-isomd5sum target.
For real distros an alterator module is probably due.
This feature was handling powersave already, so the name
should be changed already. Thanks sem@ for cpufreq-simple,
there's now a compelling reason for that rename.
Tweaked a few distro recipes accordingly.
- toplevel README received some long-needed refactoring
+ lowlevel detail moved, well, to lowlevel READMEs
- reflected more thoroughly that m-p is not about distros anymore
- dropped features.in/00example/README.en: it's already out-of-date
a bit, and there's no perceived need in thorough English docs so far
- wiki article got split into parts and somewhat rewritten, links updated
- mv doc/{CodingStyle,style.txt}
Also added to the live-builder ISO which is now self-hosted
(sans full repo): one can build an image capable of rebuilding
itself (which is not that useful) and of building other goodies
on some temporarily unused RAM-filled hardware (which is the goal).
If you make distro/live-builder.iso, the result is an image
containing almost everything (short of actual full enough
repository) to rebuild itself. It will attempt to configure
eth0 with DHCP and reach http://ftp.altlinux.org for packages.
RAM requirements start with 2Gb, self-build is accomplished
on a 4Gb host with "make CLEAN=1 distro/live-builder.iso".
Packages required for "make distro/syslinux.iso" get included.
(some due fixups all over the place too)
This was asked for by Leo-sp50 and torabora, and seems quite reasonable:
let's provide means to keep at least some distribution configurations
a bit apart, so that these can be considered more standalone in terms
of hard warranted functionality but at the same time enjoying the common
infrastructure.
Considering lib/distro.mk: it's now experimentally pulled apart so that
parallel development of different distro families can go on without
major merge hassles. *Please* don't abuse with massive copy-paste.
And before you ask: this might get extended to allow for "private"
out-of-tree configurations being included since apparently there
are goals with no meaning outside of some very particular context...
but otherwise I'd like to encourage getting reusable bits in-tree.
