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Michael Shigorin
5f479eb80f conf.d/README: updated reference
Argh, is it overdocumentation already?
The temporary name bites once again...
2012-07-18 12:34:47 +03:00
Michael Shigorin
f8af1c9243 docs updated
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).
2012-06-25 19:29:38 +03:00
Michael Shigorin
8989fc2771 added plymouth feature
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
2012-06-14 17:15:24 +03:00
Michael Shigorin
86c42e2db6 implemented {THE,BASE,LIVE}_PACKAGES_REGEXP
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.
2012-04-10 23:39:53 +04:00
Michael Shigorin
f4519332e9 READMEs: pkglist related clarification
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.
2012-04-09 22:21:10 +03:00
Michael Shigorin
d6972a39bf introduced THE_{KMODULES,PACKAGES,LISTS,GROUPS}
As too many things started duplicating between distros proper
and (e.g. corresponding) LiveCDs, it became apparent that a class
of entities which end up working for THE_USER (not a sysadmin,
and not a developer, just a Linux user) is in need.

So THE_KMODULES will power installed basesystem and live image,
while THE_PACKAGES, THE_LISTS and THE_GROUPS will participate
in building those.
2011-12-19 22:32:59 +02:00
Michael Shigorin
a543c9d5fb conf.d/README: minor clarification
COMMON_PACKAGES make it into basesystem like BASE_PACKAGES,
not just into RPMS.main like MAIN_PACKAGES.
2011-11-25 09:31:11 +02:00
Michael Shigorin
ddf0c5b7c7 full-view docs update
- 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}
2011-11-07 00:01:36 +02:00
Michael Shigorin
e8306860f1 introduced conf.d/ for distro, ve config snippets
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.
2011-11-04 16:54:41 +02:00