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18 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Mike Radyuk
a35b5fbc21 added MENUITEM variable 2012-09-12 19:19:37 +03:00
Michael Shigorin
b21353a00c complex subprofile delimiter changed ("/" -> "@")
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.
2012-08-11 20:11:17 +03:00
Michael Shigorin
cbfc3db882 syslinux: honour META_VOL_SET for boot menu
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".
2012-08-06 23:58:26 +04:00
Michael Shigorin
46e3c94707 syslinux: no ui, no escape
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.
2012-07-31 13:51:34 +04:00
Michael Shigorin
cb764516eb build-vm: standalone build is a must, too
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.
2012-07-18 16:06:15 +03:00
Michael Shigorin
aa0f5c94e4 05live.cfg: drop "splash" by default
It's configured by plymouth feature when needed;
install2 bootargs support is generalized a bit
to become stage2 one as was intended anyways.
2012-06-25 19:29:38 +03:00
Michael Shigorin
2935c44dbb syslinux: get rid of ^s with gfxboot
Keyboard accelerators rather make sense
with menu/vesamenu UI.
2012-06-18 20:55:52 +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
b5e6906b56 syslinux configuration revisited
- 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.
2012-03-31 21:08:09 +03:00
Michael Shigorin
426c985da3 syslinux: piggybacking cleanups
Avoid extra files where a variable would suffice; and use
the more specific "syslinux.list" rather than a "files.list".
2012-01-04 15:50:01 +02:00
Michael Shigorin
180ed5359c "if test ..." replaced by "if [ ... ]"
Fixed up the remnants of the early style mix
to correspond to the proposed doc/style.txt;
the rationale being that

	if [ ... ]; then
		...
		...
	fi

is the more readable construct among itself,

	if test ...; then
		...
		...
	fi

and

	[ ... ] && {
		...
		...
	}

due to the condition being more distinguishable
when bracketed and the body more apparent as the
one inside "if" and not any other block; the less
obvious difference is that the final construct of
the latter form is prone to the whole script exit
status being non-zero if the condition isn't met.
2011-12-21 12:14:03 +02:00
Michael Shigorin
102aa3851d syslinux *.cfg: replace banner
Back then I didn't come up with anything smarter than
"mkimage-profiles 2.0" (with my tongue in a cheek),
but as m-p has grown up to 0.4 it's time to fix this.

When done properly, all of the string should be brandable
(with some sane default value inheriting from image name),
but let's do it at least bit by bit.
2011-11-07 00:01:36 +02:00
Michael Shigorin
368cfd26bd syslinux: trivial cleanup
"echo ... | xargs cp -t" is a bit more complicated
compared to plain "copy ..."
2011-11-04 16:15:31 +02:00
Michael Shigorin
f5a8b89381 stage2 based live subprofiles, updated docs
- introduced generic stage2 subprofile (non-standalone)
- ported installer and rescue over to stage2/{install2,rescue}
- initial stage2/live (needs more work for sure)
- use make-initrd-propagator
- updated and somewhat extended doc/

NB: mind #26133, #26134
2011-11-04 16:15:30 +02:00
Michael Shigorin
3f012958dc server-ovz; KDEFAULT; syslinux features reworked
Renamed server-light.iso into server-ovz.iso to avoid brand dilution
and confusion (rider@'s server-light rather favours kvm, anyways).

Introduced KDEFAULT: a reliable default kernel chooser knob
since apt's regex ordering proved pretty unreliable.
Spelling things explicitly is better anyways.

SYSLINUX related features undergone pretty major rewrite
(that includes syslinux, hdt and memtest).

The problem to tackle was features.in/syslinux/generate.mk
assuming syslinux and pciids available in build *host* system;
this well might not be the case (or worse yet, those can be
just different).  So now we're a bit less elegant and a bit
more enterprise, stuffing things into chroot and working there.

Bunch of other fixes along the road, including ; to name a few:
- fixed memtest entry (overlooked while renaming SYSLINUX_ITEMS)
- new and shiny doc/CodingStyle
- gfxboot, stage1 target chain, hdt tweaks
- distro.mk rehashed
- README++
- TODO: dropped (integer overflow anyways)
  + actually moved off-tree to reduce commit spam
- s,\.config\.mk,distcfg.mk,g
- doc/profiles.mk.sample: sample ~/.mkimage/profiles.mk
- ...and assorted fixups/additions

Sorry for convoluted commit, this would have been pretty hard to
rework into some really readable shape (and you might be interested
in the original repo's history horrors then, anyways).
2011-11-04 16:15:29 +02:00
Michael Shigorin
9c883d39b6 docs day
ToC:
- introduced doc/
- features.in/00example/
- READMEs and TODO for more
- code comments clarified

Some unrelated minor fixes bundled either.
2011-11-04 16:15:29 +02:00
Michael Shigorin
a9e161b40d gfxboot brought to reasonable shape
Also included:
- reworked syslinux feature inclusion
- syslinux: s/textprompt/prompt/
- README++
2011-11-03 20:41:49 +02:00
Michael Shigorin
c8b578dd9a features' day
- get rid of $dest
- work on features.in/syslinux
- README++
2011-11-03 20:39:01 +02:00