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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/
As they say there's nothing more permanent
than a temporary... params.txt and pkglists.txt
were known as vars-build.txt and vars-conf.mk
in the midst of reworking, and part of that
tried to stick.
mkimage implementation requires that the variables
to be passed to the scripts are to be prefixed with
GLOBAL_ or INFO_ tags as appropriate; in this case
the upstream makefile didn't care to.
It's better to rather just move the raw image instead
of specifically converting it into the same, and there's
no need for qemu-img altogether then.
Let's drop the intermediate raw image after successful
conversion as well.
Setup network settings:
1. Init /etc/hosts with "127.0.0.1 localhost"
2. Set hostname, domainname
3. Set defaults for NetworkManager or
attempt to autoconfigure eth0 by etcnet.
Based on init3-network script from m-p-d.
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.
Raw disk images are convenient and universal
but there are custom formats like Qemu's qcow2
providing additional features, e.g. copy-on-write
or space savings. All of this ultimately belongs
to mkimage but in the mean time has been implemented
here as well.
Yes, mkimage-profiles is now able to build VM disk images.
So far the support is pretty basic:
- a single hard drive image with a single partition/FS
- only stock root password is configurable
- LILO is hardwired as a bootloader
The resulting images tend to boot under qemu/kvm though.
Please see doc/vm.txt for the warning regarding additional
privileges and setup required. This was started back in
February but I still hoped to avoid sudo/privileged helper
(and libguestfs is almost as undistributable as can be)...
Thanks:
- http://blog.quinthar.com/2008/07/building-1gb-bootable-qemu-image-using.html
- Alexey Morarash who reworked that as https://github.com/tuxofil/linsygen
- led@, legion@, vitty@, aen@ for providing advice and inspiration
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.
This one is contributed by Max Kosmach and somewhat
streamlined/tweaked by me; a part of it rather belongs to
nodm and xinitrc packages but is not exactly trivial to get it
there due to the looming systemd-logind/consolekit disaster;
see also #27449.
Several hacks to make NetworkManager usable in a LiveCD environment
are there too (but it resists so far).
Why would anyone try to remove apt when it's needed
for package dependency tracking for the installation,
it only takes a less cursory look at the build.log
to figure out it didn't actually happen anyways...
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
It somehow managed to evade me that $(TMP) might be uninitialized;
definitely should be checked before stuffing into sed substitution
command.
NB: this could be done in pure make but my take was less readable.
Thanks shadowsbrother/gmail for hitting and reporting this.
