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When ve/ support was introduced, a simple "make icewm.iso"
had to turn into the more elaborate "make distro/icewm.iso".
This latter one involves several keystrokes more, which is
not even (environ)mentally friendly.
This was supposed to get fixed somewhere down the road with
a fallback but the elegance of IMAGE_* setup waterfall barred
me from tweaking IMAGE_TARGET at once (and the downstream fixup
would imply re-tweaking the consequent variables as well which
is blatantly anti-mkimage-profilic being a brute fork).
OTOH testing for a "directory" part of the goal is going to
either deadlock on IMAGE_CLASS or duplicate its assignment.
So now when I've had enough typing an extra "distro/",
I'm going to just bite the bullet and tweak IMAGE_TARGET
with a test duplicating IMAGE_CLASS assignment indeed
(testing for e.g. "/" results in a different test,
which would be worse yet).
Please suggest a more elegant solution if you invent one!
As was (quite reasonably) asked by someone and me too,
why should a successful build yield a *red* line
(a grep's default)?
So now it's new and improved, 25% free and so forth:
with a successful build you get a green line, while
errors from a broke one result in red ones.
Clinically tested in both b/w and w/b colour schemes;
in case you're not satisfied, please return original
ANSI_OK and ANSI_FAIL values to the colour dealer
and pass your favourite ones instead.
It's now possible to:
- make distro/server-ovz.iso;
- make distro/server-ovz-netinst.iso;
- publish the former image's contents on ftp.linux.kiev.ua;
- boot the latter (~17M) image and enjoy the netinstall ;-)
The catch is that the stage2 (altinst file) location has to be
hardwired into syslinux config snippet for things to happen
automatically -- even if it can be specified manually in case
of failure.
The other catch is that currently a netinstall image is somewhat
tied to the particular image it installs since stage1 kernel and
stage2 modules must correspond strictly (the typical symptoms of
the glitch would be missing mouse driver and weird "permission
denied" errors during an attempt to partition the hard drives).
It might be desirable to provide multi-distro netinstall image...
The features might get copy-pasted (or even copied-and-pruned)
when initialized; there's an unneccessary duplication of the
function name in the line adding it to FEATURES list, thus
prone to being forgotten and causing some havoc later on.
It was wrong in the first place but tackling this with some
double-colon rules ran into terminality issues, and further
tortures were considered unneccessary.
The current solution isn't perfect (no completely transparent
function name registration upon corresponding target being called)
but at least it is an improvement...
It appears that features.in/Makefile functioned a bit
differently by now than was described back then: after
loops and pushds got rearranged for robustness, it stopped
to pick up a cleanup feature tagged script.
That particular script is now better de-tagged and simply
placed as a script to be merged into install2 subprofile.
The tagged scripts still require a bit more comprehension
to understand the use cases (e.g., do we need per-subprofile
tagged script subdirs or just a toplevel one should be looked
at, with script names telling where to put them).
README used to mix up subprofiles and features; fixed.
We've got some parts of it in build-distro feature,
and some went to dev feature for no real reason.
But a bare installer might go without package base,
and LiveCDs other than live-builder might find local
repository useful given aufs2 root overlay.
Now the overall scheme is more straightforward:
- a distro:
+ asks that a package repo be included
+ cares to further add the packages to it
- a repo feature:
+ pulls in sub/main for it to happen
+ provides genbasedir script to create repo metadata
+ supplements live feature with repo configuration
This is a base for "media check" to become available:
using this feature will implant a checksum into the image
so that it can be verified during install.
Also added a test/demo distro/live-isomd5sum target.
For real distros an alterator module is probably due.
This might be needed to install onto an SD card in a "native"
(non-USB-mediated) SD/MMC cardreader; thanks Vladimir Karpinsky
and gns@ for going over it for liveflash.eeepc case.
This feature was handling powersave already, so the name
should be changed already. Thanks sem@ for cpufreq-simple,
there's now a compelling reason for that rename.
Tweaked a few distro recipes accordingly.
There's a recommended version (0.2.0+ currently) and also
the minimal version, 0.1.7, which received the important fixes.
It was proposed by nice antique@ folks IIRC.
Unfortunately the "suboptimal version" warning is pretty modest,
and "minimal version" error will be apparent with DEBUG enabled;
still the latter will terminate the downstream build and leave
a clear message in build.log at any rate.
CLEAN is so useful and fiddling with .work chroots does
demand knowledge (hsh-shell is handy btw); so unless we
really get our hands dirty, let's spare ours preciouss
tmpfss.
- enhancements to logging
- NICE variable: employ nice(1) and ionice(1) if available
- features.in/syslinux: banner tweaked to include target name
- features.in/live: set up unicode locale/consolefont
- toplevel README received some long-needed refactoring
+ lowlevel detail moved, well, to lowlevel READMEs
- reflected more thoroughly that m-p is not about distros anymore
- dropped features.in/00example/README.en: it's already out-of-date
a bit, and there's no perceived need in thorough English docs so far
- wiki article got split into parts and somewhat rewritten, links updated
- mv doc/{CodingStyle,style.txt}
The bigger goal was being able to set up build in a way
that would allow for images (with configs and logs) be
deposited in per-IMAGE_NAME subdirectories of IMAGEDIR;
that's not done yet but a part of it is ready.
NB: in BUILDDIR, symlinking the just-built image is now
replaced with symlinking the IMAGEDIR since its location
is then predictable thus .gitignore-able for further work
on a generated profile, and more documentable as well.
It's not a hard change though, if you miss the image link
just drop me a note (or a commit).
Essentially some more polishing:
- image path extracted from downstream build log;
- extended error/warning regexp a bit so those with
color grep options get even prettier output.
Notes:
- "1024" a magic number (briefly explained when introduced)
moved to a sort of variable;
- "100 lines" for tail(1) is a rule-of-thumb taking into account
typical amount of hasher/mkimage exhaust given GLOBAL_VERBOSE.
Preferences might be somewhat interesting too: while the official
ones shouldn't influence the build result at all, there's no whitelist
so all kinds of weirdness can be stuffed into local config in principle.
That should be diagnosable at least.
This one regulates the build wrapper: if the value is non-empty
then nice(1) and ionice(1) will be attempted so that the build
behaves better in regard to other tasks running on the system.
A few doc/variables.txt updates along the way.
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.
Thanks torabora@ for yet again seemingly obvious feature request
which strangely managed to evade implementation before.
On an afterthought, mass builds would suggest too much coffee
instead of a progress indicator -- so implemented the latter.
NB: the actual downstream-make-calling rule would expand the "naive"
$(shell date) too early: the rule is evaluated before starting its
execution, and as it's the time consuming one the shell evaluation
was in need, not make's. The result is less generally available
(needs to be double quoted and won't work inside e.g. awk programs)
but way more precise.
Also added to the live-builder ISO which is now self-hosted
(sans full repo): one can build an image capable of rebuilding
itself (which is not that useful) and of building other goodies
on some temporarily unused RAM-filled hardware (which is the goal).
If you make distro/live-builder.iso, the result is an image
containing almost everything (short of actual full enough
repository) to rebuild itself. It will attempt to configure
eth0 with DHCP and reach http://ftp.altlinux.org for packages.
RAM requirements start with 2Gb, self-build is accomplished
on a 4Gb host with "make CLEAN=1 distro/live-builder.iso".
Packages required for "make distro/syslinux.iso" get included.
(some due fixups all over the place too)
With not-that-recent mkimage-profiles development,
it's no longer apparent that at least a gigabyte
of free space is required to build something useful
(at least for the tests, like syslinux.iso).
In short, the guesser cutoff margin is now 256M.
Unfortunately apt configuration is not straightforward at all
regarding being overridden: one can't just provide sources.list
but needs a corresponding apt.conf along with it, and that apt.conf
must disable the SysV-style snippet directories to avoid interesting
side effects of all the things getting overlaid.
So it's not surprising that torabora has asked for an example...
(thanks go to boyarsh@ since I asked him for an example long ago)
Implemented opportunistic alarm support as proposed by torabora;
the actual result depends on readline and/or terminal settings
(read up on "visual bell" vs "audible bell" in case it's wrong).
TODO: this ought to be shifted downstream when proper logging
framework is there.
This was asked for by Leo-sp50 and torabora, and seems quite reasonable:
let's provide means to keep at least some distribution configurations
a bit apart, so that these can be considered more standalone in terms
of hard warranted functionality but at the same time enjoying the common
infrastructure.
Considering lib/distro.mk: it's now experimentally pulled apart so that
parallel development of different distro families can go on without
major merge hassles. *Please* don't abuse with massive copy-paste.
And before you ask: this might get extended to allow for "private"
out-of-tree configurations being included since apparently there
are goals with no meaning outside of some very particular context...
but otherwise I'd like to encourage getting reusable bits in-tree.
The same change as in m-p-d f1c5dd0 (discussed in #22486).
Seems it wasn't the culprit regarding the "BIOS won't boot
off this DVD" but is also recommended in README.gfxboot.
src/dst tags might have been empty confusing tags2lists;
the current implementation is more robust (along with
slightly better debug within bin/tags2lists itself).
pushd/popd spam tamed too (replaced by nice log messages).
If the build is (re-)run withing generated profile directory,
the makefiles no longer have ARCH passed by upstream -- the
upstream might be unreachable at that point indeed.
This is unfortunate but we should cope with that.
NB: might be revisited when architecture-specific packagelists emerge
since currently there's no difference in package lists so we can just
re-run the build for a different architecture but this might change...
Typical (to-be-refactored when having settled down)
"cd/git .../cd -" sequences are tweaked to safeguard
against changing back without having actually changed to,
just in case.
features.in/Makefile left with pushd/popd due to its
three-level diving course (which somewhat asks to be
refactores in functions either but is intrinsically
somewhat complex OTOH).
This is quite a large-scale change since mkimage-profiles got used to
baking distributions over the last year, and virtual environments are
quite different, so e.g. image.in/Makefile had to be split in two with
the main part of it moved into features.in/iso/lib/.
Short overview:
- features.in/Makefile: lib/ support
(supporting VE images requires dynamic modifications
to image.in/Makefile before starting the build;
the most natural way to achieve that seems to use
features mechanism along with makefile include dir)
- packaging format related part moved into features.in/pack
(should be better prepared for diversity either)
- features.in/iso renamed to features.in/build-distro
- features.in/ve renamed to features.in/build-ve
+ NB: these could not be merged as e.g. features.in/build
due to completely different script hooks
- lib/image.mk renamed to lib/build.mk
- image, config, log postprocessing moved downstream
- added a sort of a topping in the form of lib/sugar.mk
- assorted style fixups (like ifeq usage)
- clean.mk: reliability fix (the problem was observed by Oleg Ivanov
and me too but finally it did get the attention quantum)
- reviewed, updated and extended docs
+ QUICKSTART: should be[come] a step-by-step guide
(thanks Leo-sp50 for prodiving feedback)
install2 cleanups:
- functionally indifferent ones: particularly, install2/*/98system's
"mkdir -p /image" was superfluous as it was done by that time already
by sub.in/stage2/image-scripts.d/00stage1
- taken apart, prepared for tags: so far it's a mostly moot change
since the installer cleanup scripts themselves are mostly the same as
preceding 90cleanup was (with some additions corresponding to recent
kernel development); it's still unclear what the mechanism for
configuring the cleanups in effect will be, either directory/package
regex lists or tagged scripts excluded from execution by yet another tag
fixes:
- image.in/Makefile: fix metadata related test; the actual test was
assuming that stage1 kernel means installer, which is not the case
since generic stage2 introduction; oh well
- 85cleanup-lowmem: a "_" too much was the culprit in destroying the
needed translations along with those deemed superfluous; thanks go to
Oleg Ivanov and Lenar Shakirov for finding the bug and proposing the
fix altogether
additions:
- features.in/Makefile: reworked help target; it was rather inaccessible
due to BUILDDIR normally undefined at the time of direct make
invocation, and BUILDDIR is normally defined during normal builds
anyways so let's try it this way.
- README++
daydreams:
- 01-genbasedir: we should drop bzip2 compressed pkglists some day
but see genbasedir and apt-cdrom first, 90-pkg.sh (alterator-pkg)
will fail miserably otherwise
Just in case the build.log will be inobvious, and it's easy to diagnose
automatically. Thanks Andrey Stroganov for this use case.
Thanks for improving the initial implementation go to raorn@ for kind
commit lynch and to Yuri Bushmelev for actually suggesting something
more concise.
BTW the "1024" magic number was taken out of thin air:
the "no free space" errors are most likely to happen while
forming/populating a chroot (apt/rpm errors out) and chroots are
roughly two orders of magnitude heftier than a megabyte.
