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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.
