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Rationale: it's the minimalistic image for those who know
what they're doing, let's maximize their chances to get it
installed and running by using a recent kernel.
My failure to recognize that it is a "generic" server that
might need some generalization and not an already specialized
one like OpenVZ HN installer had to be fixed up some day;
today is fine.
Basically, let's move package groups ("checkboxes") and alterator
from server-ovz to server, and maybe beef it up a lil' bit more
later; server-ovz is still far from jeos-ovz but the difference
that looks unmergeable is strict sshd control setup that's going
to bite those unsuspecting, so let's leave it for those of us
who are more suspicious of stray ISOs. :)
It's not only related to jeos-ovz but also to jeos
it seems (even if more fixing is clearly needed in
sisyphus case as e.g. radeon driver might still
refuse to work).
It'd be better yet to avoid installing hardware-related
packages for a purely VM-targeted distro but it'd require
some more intermediate forking; while its objectives do
include reasonable minimalism it's not as ultimate as for
jeos images, thus let's keep some superfluous services
around (but disable them).
The issue at hand is that recent xorg has suddenly started
to both depend on kernel modesetting *and* not fail through
towards e.g. vesa driver which would save the day for minimal
environments like installer; I definitely don't want to plug
a pile of DRM modules into this image for just this reason.
We've been pruning quite a few packages from a recently installed
altlinux-p7-server-ovz instance; looks like server-ovz's added
functionality should go into plain server instead, and -ovz flavour
should focus on bare metal HN.
In particular, bash-completion-1.99-alt3 seems to misbehave with
mount(8) at the very least -- better drop it for now.
It's been proposed to add an image writing tool to all of
the desktop regular builds (which is reasonable).
rosa-imagewriter depends on qt5 that's currently found in
lxqt, kde4 and kde5 flavours only so let's put it there.
imagewriter (the openSUSE's original one) goes to the rest of
DE builds: xdg-su would fallback to gksu if none of the desktops
got "detected", and that means several more megabytes of crap
(completely unneeded in WM-based images I think).
Enlightenment is a long enough word to trigger #28271;
E, on the other hand, is pretty slim to fit that space.
"Volume id: ALT Linux regular-enlightenment/" just isn't
pretty at all.
rider@ asked to move gnome3 to un-def kernel flavour,
and there's an unofficial policy for regular builds
that these carry reasonable diversity (in a good sense)
as in various kernels, inits, etc; that diversity would
drop a bit of both GNOME3 based flavours would end up
with the same kernel, so let's mv not cp.
Samba 4.x in domain controller mode works with "samba"
service, not legacy smbd/nmbd/winbindd; all of those
must be stopped before running the newly-configured one:
http://altlinux.org/SambaDC
Done due to Balbes' (quite reasonable) suggestion
to do so for all of the installable regular builds
as changing disk partition layout is better made
with the proper tool.
Drop qtparted from lxqt pkglist as it's broken :(
See also (in Russian):
https://forum.altlinux.org/index.php?topic=35681.msg269732#msg269732
lxqt-lightdm-greeter is finally *really* deprecated,
LXQt's build system has changed enough to warrant its
FTBFS without the same changes.
Note that this won't cut it for p7 starterkits anymore.
This one adds a "classic" GNOME2-like session;
one needs to select it by hand though, and gdm
won't bother them with a selector "gear" widget
unless there's a password set for the user.
Thus no autologin without explicit session
specification seems possible so far.
Note that there's no way to have gdm without
gnome-shell currently.
Both kde5 and xfce-sysv have received their fair share
of criticism for substandard fonts; zerg@ has proposed
adding droid fonts to the former and someone expressed
their frustration with Terminal fonts in the latter:
http://www.opennet.ru/openforum/vsluhforumID3/104750.html#70
Let's try to make some difference between Xfce based
flavours as well by changing the kernel to a bit more
"bleeding" one as proposed either.
It was observed in regular-gnustep-20150916-*.iso that
mediacheck boot target sort of starts plymouth bootsplash
when not intended to; let's plug this by moving +plymouth
away to a test image *but* there are couple things with it:
1) supporting plymouth in mediacheck *might* be a good thing
for distros proper -- this will likely require some support
on bootsplash theme side either;
2) it's not enough to just drop @bootargs@ from syslinux.cfg
snippet as the extra payload will still go in to no avail.
Wish this was done before starterkits alpha but still;
here are the preliminary (unqualified) test results:
- cinnamon: OK (vi_VN, zh_CN, ko_KR)
- gnome3: no way to change the hotkey; menu font troubles
- kde4: OK but lacks corresponding localization subpackages
- lxde: OK (vi_VN, zh_CN, ko_KR)
- lxqt: imsettings-xfce somehow gets in (unrequested!)
- mate: unable to change hotkey, applet complains to stderr
- tde: native apps don't recognize ibus input
I decided that it's worth the added size to sprinkle more
hardware-related packages like SANE throughout the regular
crop so that compatibility tests are easier to do; there's
sane usage in there already, let's port live-gimp over too.
...now explicitly.
The problem started with systemd being tossed in but was ignored
for some time -- until systemd-221-alt1 gained X11 dependency
through /etc/X11/xinit.d/ script and triggered the libX11 test
that breaks regular-rescue.iso build.
pam_systemd and systemd-services still get in (and can be removed
by hand with nothing else requiring those).
Both Xfce-based images have been falling back to
a completely wrong Monospace font alias implementation
at least for ASCII part which resulted in hard to read
Serif font in Terminal (even if e.g. Cyrillics are OK);
adding Liberation seems to work around this.
Too bad this commit didn't hit the recent starterkits.
The goal of implementing rescue_remote was regular-rescue.iso
indeed; so let's both add it and bump the default boot timeout
to 600 deciseconds, that is, a minute: 20 seconds might be way
too low for some slow IP-KVM/iKVM use cases.
It's all started with glebfm@ wondering why
kernel-modules-v4l-std-def ends up installed
with altlinux-p7-server-ovz.iso; this has been
tossed in by kernel-modules-staging-std-def
which has been requested by +wireless.
WiFi support is nice to have handy when one hits
a wifi-only device and no means to bring networking
up (the infamous "unzip.zip" situation) but it's
a bit too much to force a bunch of extra drivers
specifically known for sub-par or unknown quality
onto everyone installing an ALT Linux based server.
So let's contain that feature to desktop/rescue images
and exclude it from their common base with server ones.
It's been added to al of tde-based images
but it looks like LiveCDs make more sense,
and it's the regular-tde.iso that hits both
regular builds and starterkits; let's put it
there and hope it gets spotted appropriately.
