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...and refactored its use in cinnamon image too;
this isn't a permanent solution though,
slated to move into fonts feature.
Thanks gns@ for suggestion.
There isn't much sense to keep an entirely separate flavour
as deepsolver starts being actually useful and icewm is
a somewhat special flavour for those who know their ways
around Linux plumbing.
The various *8168 and friends among kernel modules
have finally been pushed into a designated target
so that RM doesn't have to care which particular
additional ethernet modules are available in this
particular branch and kernel.
Tweak distros as appropriate.
NB: *maybe* this is required by distro/.base either.
acpi_call is used far too often when dealing with the newer
portable x86 hardware, we're better off including it when
it's available.
regular.mk adjusted appropriately.
Richard and Theo would probably roll their eyes at this point
but the unfortunate reality is that wireless hardware is very
much dependent on firmware being explicitly provided; so here
it is.
rtl8192 kernel module added since it's present in t6/branch
at least.
This change mostly concerns with making icewm flavour
the lean one again.
The goal is to widen the dynamic range of regular image features:
icewm is not a desktop thus can bear withouth systemd-logind
even if a bunch of network-managing-media-mounting crap has been
rigged to depend on it, and ALT domain client should be included
in most builds for convenient testing in SMB environments but can
stay out of this minimal and "different" image.
It also receives the "un-def" kernel flavour (3.8.0 as of today)
which might benefit from the more available testing facility too.
Its branding is also simplified, plain syslinux menu is fine;
in similar vein, refind feature is flipped from icewm-only to
all-but-icewm set of images with its state being good enough
as of refind 0.6.7 and mkimage 0.2.7.
Added use/live/net-eth so that autoconfigured images
still work in predictable manner.
May those breaking trivial cases walk with zillion of
cdrom, modem, ethernet etc device nodes all around them!
Added fvwm flavour specially for perestoronin from da LOR.
As if it wasn't enough,
- added UEFI support to desktop/,live-desktop intermediate target;
- added live installation capability to desktop/.livecd-install;
- added "net-eth" subfeature to get good ol' eth0 insteal of enp0s3;
- dropped use/x11/autologin as live subprofile sets up
a supported DM for automatic login anyways.
It'd be better for this commit to appear before 0.9.7
(and clobber the original one) but at least the added
functionality has been tested; time to generalize it.
enp0s3 is quite inferior to eth0 in terms of usability
even if it might be more convenient for the machine{,ry}.
Let's stick with what works here in ALT Linux (see #28484).
The same "regular-gtk" based set of images received common
desktop background provided; note that kde4 won't like it
(branding package didn't really anticipate kde4 and is to
be updated appropriately as well as extended for mate/fvwm).
This one is also used for lightdm/gtk.
"regular-gtk" based images moved from the (unsupported) gdm2.20
to the (supported) lightdm with gtk greeter; while a couple of
gdm2 forks have emerged it's still unclear whether mate or mint
one will be actually alive, even short/mid-term.
The issue is that it's suddenly broken in current Sisyphus,
looks like the peculiar set of assumptions in fedora-tweaked
systemd+plymouth+gdm3 relies on tty1 being the X session tty
and it's different here.
It would be great to have #28289 fixed either so that aris@
could approve the image as usable (I totally agree that it's
a major piece of real world functionality currently missing)
looks like there's sense to prepare a starter iso for tests.
- added destination homeros-nano.iso yields minimal
speaking image;
- added "homeros" feature contain scripts appropriate
for general Homeros functions but need further development.
The current refind support implementation doesn't boot
with either USB Flash or CD-ROM for me (due to the different
actual volumes, FAT vs El Torito, accordingly).
And when it does, a host with Secure Boot present and not
disabled yet would turn the unsigned kernel down unlike ELILO
(due to rEFInd using "natural" calls to boot it).
Both issues are reported upstream; in the meanwhile let's
migrate a single test image but build the rest with elilo.
UEFI support is pretty requisite by now;
and el-smp hasn't seen updates for almost
half a year by now so an actively maintained
one is clearly preferred.
See http://www.altlinux.org/Регулярные_сборки_образов
for the idea behind this set of images; in short, it's
*not* a bunch of polished end-user distros in a moment
but rather to facilitate Sisyphus package base testing
in as-is state during branch pre-release time.
The whole live-rescue needs a massive facelift regarding
applications included and user experience achieved (remember
that folks are going to be stressed enough already with data
lost or system(s) not booting, and probably offline as well);
but at least it's UEFI bootable now.
Intermediate one: build-propagator *is* run off stage1,
no mkimage changes for that matter so far. This means
that m-p still duplicates mki-pack-boot to some extent
but the way to dedup this is still not clear enough...
While ildar@ has some reason for the slimmer image
the somewhat standalone one is documented in examples
for offline use, ruining it in-place is not an option.
Let's just do a split (and lose a target-specific variable
example in favour of a commodity pkglist by the way; oh well).
a live-builder appliance is (or may be) usually used for building software
with many dependencies, hence needing access to external resources,
e.g. apt repos with lib${NAME}-devel packages.
This commit cuts RPM packages from the live-builder LiveCD.
Both do require postprocessing (see http://www.altlinux.org/UEFI)
until mkimage receives xorriso support and efiboot.img is passed
down there somehow, but it's beta than nothin' so far.
Introduced distro/.live-desktop-ru as a shortcut for
distro/.live-desktop use/live/ru which occurs several times
already (and the counter will increase right now).
Thanks go to ildar@ for spotting this: my ~/.mkimage/profiles.mk
routinely contains DEBUG = 1 line which effectively masked this
regression in commit 307fb51f15.
Wouldn't be a big deal but syslinux.iso is recommended in
tutorial docs being slim and fast-building, and it's also
what's buildable locally in live-builder.iso environment.
The rationale for the former is that the image gets slightly
more compact (although the current sisyphus build is way larger
than the t6/branch build of the optimization time, need to look
into that...); and for the latter it's to provide yet another
installer with a different enough kernel so that there's one more
chance in a weird situation.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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/
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.
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.
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
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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?
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.
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.
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).
