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THE_KMODULES isn't referencing the actual *.ko files
but rather kernel-modules-* packages; it was a bit too
verbose to name *_KMODULES as *_KMODULE_PACKAGES even
if it was more self-explanatory of course, but still
we've got the first victim to that ambiguity.
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.
use/browser/firefox/esr was not enough to actually select firefox-esr
as the FX_FLAVOUR handler was simply not getting included (see also
the preceding commit); specify it explicitly.
The future mod might be introducing some "live" flag for that feature
to use it instead of adding livecd-webkiosk-* packages by hand...
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.
Both starterkits and live webkiosk images carrying Firefox
are switched to ESR packages by this commit; note that those
images with other browsers aren't affected.
This has apparently been a TODO item stuck until finding out
whether efi and isohybrid conflict or not; it's been a *long*
time since this has been found out (no conflict) actually,
let's add isohybrid to all of the images as it's completely
free size-wise and efi to chromium image as it's the largest
base one (I don't think that adding any extra functionality
to the already overweight and full of potential and kinetic
security bugs "flash" flavour is a good idea as it would
promote its use among those who need EFI but not Flash).
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).
This one was an experimental but the server is long
offline and isn't going back up; remove the obsolete
config snippet, if/when it's done again it's the easiest
part to be restored (the implementation should provide
HTTP/FTP/NFS-publishable deliverables without the need
to extract those from ISO images).
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.
This one has formed off the recent addition to regular-rescue.iso,
namely the feature starting network and sshd upon generating some
random password and setting it as the root one for the (remotely
started) livecd session so that a person operating an IP-KVM/iKVM
would be able to boot off the ISO file via virtual media and then
look up an IP obtained via DHCP and the root password.
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.
It's been both somewhat problematic as of plymouth-0.9.x
due to broken rendering and explicitly asked for by asy@
regarding sysv-tde starterkit which makes sense for an
image targeting low-resource systems as well.
It's been noted by aris@ that the experimental
regular-leechcraft.iso lacks both upower and bluez;
let's try and add those missing to all of regular
desktop images.
This is our answer to this VZstats FAQ entry:
Q: Why is it opt-out rather than opt-in?
A: We just don't have a good place
(such as installer or some GUI)
to ask you for opt-in.
Well ALT Linux got one. :)
This one has been brewing since last autumn but the need
to cut down the stage1 (propagator) modules has been stopping
the code from showing up in master branch; now that the proper
infrastructure is in place it's there too.
sem@ noted that it had to be dropped from xfce4-full metapackage
as this package is built on top of gstreamer 0.10 and the API it
uses was dropped from gstreamer 1.0 so it's gonna die some day;
upstream recommends xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin but it's not suitable
to some of us, like Speccyfighter; well let's add the good ol'
plugin to sysv based flavour for now and see how it holds.
This one is a minimalistic one to test propagator
without having to add the debug stanza by hand
as well as to run stage1 build/test cycles faster
(would have helped me understand the recent thinko
with xhci-hcd vs xhci_hcd, for example).
There are a few ones that aren't needed for a one-time
environment off a LiveCD/Flash like a webkiosk; if you
happen to need a text-based kiosk some day, tell me so.
Shame on me, gnustep mixin is only used in gnustep flavour
while wmaker one is used in both gnustep and wmaker flavours.
So the default serif fonts in regular-wmaker.iso were still ugly.
I don't know of [k]powersave interactions with systemd
and the rest of that ilk, let's be cautious and only provide
it for sysv-tde images which have been actually tested
by Speccyfighter who asked for this package.
Can't tell for sure but something seems to break
suspend menu option (hibernate isn't supported in
all of the regular builds/starterkits just yet).
This refactoring is aimed at both providing reasonable
alterator package set in server-ovz (and server-hyperv)
while purging the install-time modules from plain server
as these were useless without a frontend package like
the web-based alterator-fbi.
It used to run NM without any kind of applet which is
not exactly usable unless it's DHCP over Ethernet there;
provide connman and qconnman-ui (applets on the road).
This has been proposed for server-hyperv by lewellyn@freenode
last summer, looks like a reasonable default for all of the
server images as those interersted in bridge setup are going
to do a few more things anyways.
This image has been cleaned up somewhat thoroughly
regarding its installed package base but partitioning
has remained poorly generic with swap etc; it's now
been set to use 3/4 Gb as a minimum (to fit 1Gb VMs
or USB sticks just fine) with the only partition
created being root one; those wishing something else
are welcome to go ahead and partition by hand anyways.
See also https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/30024
propagator-20150306-alt1 and make-initrd-propagator-0.25-alt1
have made it actually possible to use resulting LiveCD images
along with USB flash media to achieve data persistence that's
been long available for BIOS boot mode (see also #28289).
This isn't perfect but let's try flipping the switch:
all desktop regular builds are now "live_rw" by default
in EFI mode.
This requires mkimage >= 0.2.17.
This image doesn't deign to waste one's time by presenting
them with a bootloader menu and a few other things;
make it even less verbose where not neccessary.
xpra.org and winswitch.org are wonderful applications
helping one working with X11 apps all over the place,
running those on local and remote desktops and servers
with persistent sessions.
These aren't exactly trivial to plan and use but icewm
isn't for newbies either; thus these seem like nice match
for an "X11 thin client" image.
Size addition is ca. 50 Mb as of today which is a lot
but worth it.
This project has evolved/merged into LXQt which has been
packaged for both p7/t7 and sisyphus by now, no need to
carry on deprecated bits.
NB: 0.6.x still have it as t6/p6 still bear razorqt.
The issue at hand is that some sneaky stage3 alterator modules
seem to have tossed alterator-browser-qt (thus libqt4* and friends)
into base server installations; while this must be solved in within
package base and should be worked around by server feature probably
let's start out with leaf targets.
epiphany (or fontconfig?) insists on URW fonts for rendering
webpages like http://opennet.ru which hurts my eyes; looks like
/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-alt-post-user.conf would override these
with e.g. Liberation or Dejavu (with the latter being inferior
to the former, IMHO).
...so that regular builds really have common ground again,
which is something that got broken with regular-jeos introduction;
adjusted jeos and builder flavours to make use of this.
There's considerable confusion accumulated over the
expansion of regular builds with non-GUI targets:
- bare meant quite a lot including wireless;
- base meant GUI base actually,
so rescue, server, and especially jeos images had to
either cope with the bloat or start from scratch.
Let's fix "base" first...
Looks like QEMU 2.2.0 gets surprised with some kernel module
that udev tries to load during "Populating /dev:" boot stage;
dropping *both* +vmguest and +wireless dependencies does help
while switching to un-def kernel flavour doesn't (as is or with
any single one of these two deps removed).
Thanks user who reported the problem at opennet.ru
(alias "myhand").
altlinux-p7-kde4-20141212 images had a problem:
- the generic starterkit profile is tuned
for modest disk space consumption;
- KDE4 is quite extensive;
- kde4-regular subpackage tosses in most of KDE4 SC
...thus the livecd wouldn't autopartition enough
space for root filesystem when being installed.
volumes-profile-lite specifies 10Gb rootfs currently
which is just fine (-kdesktop one starts with 30Gb),
let's use it until vm-profile management is imported
into mkimage-profiles or things are redone completely.
There's no more livecd-gnome3-nosetup, it's been renamed
to setup-gnome3-done with no P:/O: to reduce repo spam.
Should have cherry-picked this into master back then :-/
I've been puzzled to find current live-webkiosk.iso trying to go
localboot with no timeout; this is basically a plug, VM images
might need more effort to go in.
There's GNOME 3.8 in p7/branch and it has no initial setup tool
thus no disabler is needed anyways; I've fixed this a while ago
but seem to have managed to lose the commit somehow :-/
So ALT Linux has got decent build tools but no one even knows
about those, right? And starting to use those is somewhat tedious
as it requires ALT installation with a specially crafted user account?
live-builder.iso has been useful enough to consider including its
relative into starterkits skipping regular builds for roughly the
same reasons as those for installers: we're better off helping users
to get onto the stable platform bandwagon than having them excited
with Sisyphus just to hit some wall down the road (even if we warn
of these walls well in advance most of the time), and while packages
tend to get into branches via sisyphus repo it's still better to stay
on the safe side with what we make easily available.
It's been ignored since the introduction of deflogin feature
and removal of build-vm specific ROOTPW variable handling;
might be adjusted to mandate this for vm/bare too, have to
think it over.
