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The logic is pretty much the same as with live.mk,
even somewhat extended as this has actually been
the driver of this change: some images like icewm
or lxqt-based ones might show off other browsers
explicitly (in addition to zerg@'s request).
Firefox was the very reasonable default for initial livecd
implementation but now that at least initial browser chooser
infrastructure is in place it's time to un-hardwire its use.
It's _the_ default but switchable now so that images providing
a comprehensive browser can avoid feature duplication.
This should better lurk here unless someone (including myself)
either forgets or doesn't realize the inobvious chain of the
assumptions made for the read-only warranty to actually work.
This is actually downplaying: the net effect is that
a few images continue to carry krb5-ticket-watcher
and have avahi service enabled by default while most
of the images have one "weird" item less on their menus
and a few hundred kilobytes less in total RSS.
These are not really needed by default in lightweight
distros sporting reduced application and services set,
and the heavier ones will take relatively less hit
by default while being more ready as ALT Domain clients
(which was the whole motivation behind adding the feature
and the corresponding pkglist).
A virtual machine lacking DHCP client seems much less useful,
and being able to shut one down via emulated ACPI button press
seems like no luxury either.
led-ws kernel flavour has gained kernel-modules-vmware
recently, let's add this to the appropriate targets.
It's used in regular-jeos already but THE_ part was missing.
This should provide the fix for #30024 (thanks ildar@):
vmware relies on mptspi.ko by default and that's been
split out into scsi and not guest subpackage for led-ws.
BTW use/install2/vmguest instead of a bunch.
plasma-applet-networkmanager has been superseded by a bunch
of kde4-plasma-nm* packages; only the main one has been included
in regular-kde4 flavour since the switch resulting in the lack of
VPN/mobile connectivity options.
My opinion still is that plasma-applet-networkmanager should be
returned as a metapackage for p7/branch timespan so that images
could be built no matter whether it's sisyphus or p7 at hand.
Oh well.
Package has been prepared by shaba@ and sem@,
and it looks like ALT Linux with un-def kernel
is one of the few (or just the one) distribution
running on Hyper-V Gen.2 rather flawlessly
thanks to efforts by boyarsh@ and vitty@.
Just a convenient knob for a few things done previously
to help spare the interesting bits from being overrun.
NB: live_rw isn't added although it might be useful
since that would yield too many boot targets overall;
this is likely to change some day, hopefully when
media type detection/handling is implemented.
Let's bump syslinux timeout to 20 seconds either
so that iKVM users have a chance to select anything
and not just see the default booting after a few
screen area size changes.
cvltonemap is no more available in sisyphus/p7;
xsane and usbutils were sorely missing (thanks dd@).
NB: fim is currently i586-only, need to fix or drop it.
server-zabbix.iso is ready for deployment,
and live-zabbix.iso is zabbix agent + firefox
(needs at least Server to be specified properly
within zabbix_agentd.conf when booted).
It used to be added in server-ovz but it really belongs to
the underlying server-mini already as more images built
upon that one should perform correct shutdown given ATX
compatible case/mobo or a VM that can do ACPI.
This reverts commit fd8f375573.
xdg-su is broken (some would say beyond repair) regarding DE
detection and handling of various GUI helper utilities,
especially in graceful fallback department; only a few images
can get imagewriter until this is fixed, let kde4 be the one.
The whole story with this installer has been due to a query
at #altlinux whether there's a distribution image similar
to altlinux-p7-rescue.iso which appears to be booting under
Hyper-V Gen. 2 without a hitch; changing just the kernel
towards the newer one made the user rather happy since
everything worked out-of-box for him, even unimportant bits.
Of course it's mostly due to boyarsh@'s preceding work :)
NB: there's no use to build i586 version as that hypervisor
lacks CSM (BIOS implementation) and would only boot UEFI
compatible operating systems with pretty strict requirements.
It has dawned on me that gdm2.20 is more widely useful
within sysvinit based builds: lightdm with gtk greeter
would fail to poweroff/reboot while this one would not.
aen@ asked to ship this one as well; no problem given mixins,
still being able to *switch* the init instead of regrafting
would be very beneficial.
NB:
- wdm can't do autologin;
- wdm can poweroff/halt;
- wdm+autologin won't work under systemd (via prefdm.service);
- nodm will work under systemd;
- nodm will ruin consolehelper -> livecd-install by root's PATH;
- gdm2.20 is lightweight, feature complete and sovereign enough.
The reason for an explicit cleanup is that VNC installation support
is now left in by default (see #29901); thus this commit is only
keeping the status quo for this image.
It's still a GUI installer but pretty much barebone one by now...
in particular, it needs no xorg-drv-$hardware being mostly targeted
at VMs and demo appliances where fbdev is rather enough.
Cleanup extra kernel drivers too.
The mixin concept and name has been borrowed from Ruby
language -- it's a kind of thing that can be added to
more or less whatever suitable; the problem it tries
to solve is that incrementally building up the image
configuration breaks when one would like to change
something that's been configured in early enough so that
grafting early will warrant a lot of duplication later on
but inheriting too much things that need to be changed
gets too much hackery in.
It started while trying to build an installer image
using configuration bits and pieces collected while
bringing an installable LiveCD together: there are
just too many livecdish things in a LiveCD to try
and rebase the actual desktop configuration things
onto an installer, so putting these into a mixin
to be reused within both livecd and installer
seems the way to go.
This time it autostarts using livecd-fgfs and primus
if possible; firefox and GUI mixer are the notable loss
but the clarity of "boot into FlightGear" should sort of
compensate for that.
Ah, and Tu-154 by default.
Current Sisyphus' xorg-drv-intel works somewhat better
with recent kernel drivers on my HD4000 GPU, and icewm
is not compositing at all; providing another test/backup
image fitted with newer kernel should do no harm.
This package has been built and recommended by cas@;
it requires Qt5 which hasn't been needed for anything else
included in regular builds so far so let's extend kde4 one
to begin with.
lightdm isn't going to turn off the system properly
with no systemd-logind around ("for no good reason",
that is); good ol' wdm for installed system and the
similarly ol' autologin just work though.
nodm is not gonna cut it since user PATH is weird
within the session breaking livecd-install by putting
/usr/sbin before /usr/bin while it shouldn't be there
in the first place.
As it happens regular-rc testing has shown that cinnamon,
gnome3 and kde4 flavours included NM via their pkglists
and dependencies (which used to result in live feature
enabling NetworkManager service wholesale when found);
now when handling default services has become more strict
it became apparent that these images have got their LiveCD
mode running without network by default (installation does
set that up though).
It looks like an easy way to just stick +nm into .regular-desktop
dependencies but then razorqt, sugar, xmonad would get NM which
is not what they're gonna handle; e17/e18 too.
Well actually it shouldn't -- except for rEFInd the boot manager:
branding graphics within the build environment are used to add
a single background image to EFI/refind/icons/ thus the change.
Wonder how this got lost though as this screenshot:
http://en.altlinux.org/File:Altlinux-rescue-uefi-memtest86.jpg
clearly illustrates it was working back in December indeed!
TDE images are pretty modest regarding resource consumption
thus suitable for older hardware; a slower flash drive can
stall indefinitely showing slideshow and not going any further
with actual package installation so let's put a cap on that.
This change is done to reduce ambiguity in some cases;
the previous intention has been to ease navigation when
staying in a particular directory, now it's been changed
in favour of convenient toplevel `git grep' in fact.
Both variants have their pros and cons, I just find myself
leaning to this one by now hence the commit. Feel free to
provide constructive criticism :)
Some path-related bitrot has also been fixed while at that.
Well, some of the maintainers clearly prefer t7/branch
to publish their works; at least GNUstep and TDE packages
are updated there and might migrate to p7/branch later.
No need to fight that, really.
KVM and VirtualBox support packages are pretty tiny
but essential when these images get deployed within
virtual environments for any reason, let's add 'em.
It's been gfxboot-free but no user visible facility to select locale
has emerged through these years; it's been decided to put gfxboot
until some text chooser is available (thanks aen@ for discussion).
This is a minimalistic ALT-based system installer tailored
for those who know how to bring up networking and apt-get
the packages they actually need; thanks frbrgeorge@ for
proposing the specification as well as sem@ and glebfm@
for discussion.
No mc, no glibc-locales, even no man and interactivesystem!
Packages included: apt basesystem openssh vim-console
PS: Sisyphus-based regular build is not the main goal though
thus the p7/branch {bri,klu}dge.
This image is largely a rebase of server-ovz.iso onto regular-server;
it's not feasible to provide a single image that would install either
"mini" server or openvz/kvm one based on user choice during boot alas
(even if both ovz-el and std-def kernels are provided within "ovz" ISO
and vzctl&co could be stuffed into a package list/group).
Maybe this is fixed some day...
OpenVZ related part is now a reusable use/server/ovz target,
and service related groups which have been largely taken from
rider@'s server-light project are now use/server/groups/base.
TerraSync might come handy (just as online manuals) but one's
going to need internet access for that so let's put at least
DHCP-over-Ethernet configuration preset in.
There's a beautiful airliner model out there thanks to the guys
at flightgear.ru, and it was asking to be included but its unclear
licensing status; now that 3.0 is GPLed I'm glad to add this package.
This might belong to test.mk actually but it's been instrumental
in getting bumblebee support operational within these LiveCDs;
icewm and sysvinit are a commonplace among those currently
but aren't set in stone for that matter.
I'm fed up with graphical software occasionally making it
into regular-rescue.iso and bloating it for no good reason
given that window managers or xinitrc aren't included.
Dank Bagryantsev asked if it could be added to available packages
at least; well it is there now but not in default install
as aptitude is currently unsupported.
This kernel can help save almost 50 megabytes of image size
and shave off several megs of RAM consumption as well which
is important after the installation has been through.
Adding rescue image was requested by Speccyfighter (in Russian):
http://lists.altlinux.org/pipermail/community/2013-December/681045.html
...and it seems hard but doable if one doesn't mind barebone rescue;
still efi-shell shouldn't spoil x86_64 build as that one won't fit CD-R
and doesn't have to anyways.
un-def got unsuitable due to initial ramdisk migrating from
initramfs to tmpfs by default in newer kernels, and propagator
was using pretty kludgy way to determine that /dev has been
mounted already; led-ws (and supposedly lks-wks) have stumbled
upon this earlier.
20130822 version has been fixed regarding that.
...instead of installer-distro-desktop which pulls in
alterator-auth which breaks things big time for sysv-tde
installer image due to avahi-daemon lazy to run.
Of course it's the last step of installation that has to fail.
And I've been considering this for several months already anyways.
It's proprietary now but still very useful with no free software
alternatives for UEFI platform so far; let's include efi-memtest86
into the rescue image at least.
distro/.regular-install depends on use/luks now too;
this isn't a hard decision but so far looks good
given the overall functionality range and balance
within regular builds.
I've been considering a way to avoid confusion between:
- a tde based livecd with systemd;
- a tde based livecd with sysvinit;
- a tde based installer with sysvinit
and finally came to conclusion that regular-sysv prefix
will be common for installers with sysvinit within regular.mk
and p7.mk; this might be not perfect but should be good enough.
Note that while regular-sysv-tde.iso is buildable and installs
just fine at the moment I don't plan to publish Sisyphus based
installer builds as a rule since these require extra knowledge
regarding daily use (starting with http://altlinux.org/changes
and/or https://lists.altlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/sisyphus ML
subscription).
Sisyphus-based rescue image is fine as well as LiveCDs are;
installable LiveCDs (most of regular-*.iso) are actually
risky in case user actually installs *and* updates those
having ignored the red "unstable" status in the branding,
and that's the line I'm not going to cross that often.
This image family doesn't inherit from distro/.installer
and thus could miss the bootloader setup with no problems
(at least until an installed system would attempt booting
without a bootloader).
The whole thing requires some more thinking over and probably
moving more bits to mixins but in the mean time let's make sure
the bootloader *is* configured.
distro/.regular-install is now factored out to be reused in
tde based installer (and potentially more images later on).
This implies sysvinit at the moment which might change too
but looks just fine right now.
What was added for networked desktop installers is now needed
for regular desktop installers as well; moved to a mixin.
These will probably get reshaked at some point.
- speech-ru and speech-en features are added;
- speech-related things removed from homeros features;
- speech/ directory for package lists added and other corresponding changes.
I considered these two to be either close forks differing in init system
used (and things involved too much like NM at the moment), or to bring
some more choice along; this commit sticks with the former approach,
namely "let's only toggle the init system and let the rest be the same"
so that choosing the particular implementation can be based on this very
difference and not any other ones added along with it.
...so that locale is selectable at boot (unfortunately there's no
way to do that with text menu so far as cmdline is only changed
in its entirety there and generating it from the bits involved
is Not Implemented Yet as usual).
distro/.regular-sysv{,-gtk} intermediate targets are factored out
to form the base for more image targets as at least e17, icewm,
tde and wmaker are fine without systemd-logind. These represent
both GTK and Qt based environments hence the two footholds.
LUKS seems like a worthwile addition to this particular image;
it's also switched to use installer-distro-altlinux-server
for both LUKS support (until installer-steps are dynamic)
and server-oriented partitioning presets.
Make it automatically start in desktop ones,
and let it be available in rescue too (there's
a risk of gpm picking up a wrong protocol and
selecting/pasting at random which is not exactly
the right thing for rescue environment with root
shells all around).
It was a desperate kludge to warrant fallback localization
for cases when livecd-setlocale failed to work out properly;
"thanks" to systemd paralizing startup the order was chaotic,
see #28991 for some details.
Now that livecd-setlocale >= 0.3.1 looks like working this
should be dropped for good.
And the proper preset solution will be l10n feature.
That one requires part of alterator-sysconfig backend
factored out into a standalone package along with its data.
Setting up apt configuration in every container
is pretty annoying, let's enable it by default.
Some provision to add/enable local mirror would
be beneficial but not there yet...
etckeeper was suggested by george@ along with vim-console;
the latter should come by server,base tags but so far does not
(splitting server-base list into common, bare metal and virtualized
parts in haste looked suboptimal).
So the autobuilds were failing for these two weeks since
commit e43386c1fe was *totally*
braindead: there's no "arm-e17" target neither "arm-kde4" one.
Fixed while awake and adjusted (in sync with build node)
to reference particular nexus7 and not just "arm".
The sad thing is that it should now read "nexus7old" TBH,
2013 model is not Linux friendly at all at the moment...
This one was asked for and is pretty reasonable common base
to play with cubox from scratch (being ALT); the intermediate
targets had to be refactored with:
- vm/.cubox-bare becoming *that* bare (it doesn't even
warrant an init anymore, let alone xorg);
- vm/.cubox-desktop accomodating most of desktop bits;
- vm/.cubox-base becoming vm/.cubox-oem as it should be.
The just-introduced tty feature is employed either.
This one was replaced by the net feature completely
and has been declared obsolete since 1.1.1 (a month ago).
A few remaining users trivially adjusted.
There was no need to split carrying over the pubkey
and tightening up permissions on the file and its parent
directory to be done in two separate scripts; this should
be more generic now as a bonus.
Users adjusted accordingly.
The automated build relies on particular names
to be buildable and this broke during some sync;
http://nightly.altlinux.org/sisyphus-arm/snapshots/
were empty as autobuild was failing since 20130710.
p7 aliases go in too.
Thanks glebfm@ for nudging me to do this; initial draft
was the very firsh armh distro target successfully built
and tested but the effort has refocused onto nexus7 ones
with cubox images joining the party a bit later.
Now it's the time for all good servers...
It was sitting next to the wrong line after refactoring
of cubox related target and was referring to "king"
instead of "kind", very kind of me but not so kingly.
It's old, it uses consolekit (even if not neccessarily),
it borders obsolescence *but* removal of udev-alsa has caused
massive regressions (e.g. regular-gnome3 had soundcard mixer
levels dropped to zero from the start, regular-razorqt added
inability to poweroff to that...).
Just get it back.
Thanks boyarsh@ and cas@ for pointing out that the branding
that takes MATE peculiarities (e.g. background settings)
into account is in Sisyphus/armh already.
This one is IMHO best suited DE for cubox' meagre performance
(especially on I/O side due to microSD) as it incurs quite modest
I/O, CPU and RAM footprint quite suitable for PII-300 times
(cubox feels quite like that but has lots of RAM compared to
even maxed-out Pentium II workstation).
The image includes OpenSCADA as a nice and unique feature
which has been developed with TDE environment in mind
and was used on ARM hardware like N900, incidentally;
thanks aen@ for this suggestion.
Most of these are slated to employ oem feature by now,
no sense to call it in almost every dependency chain;
the only image left with predefined locale and credentials
is cubox-xfce-ru.
Few things:
- extend feature specification
+ SysVinit can be chosen explicitly via init feature,
no need to keep sysklogd in yet another pkglist;
+ power management should be included too
(both cpufreq setup and power button handling);
+ LILO seems to be heavily preferred among the
target audience :)
- use desktop installer for regular-server
+ the seeming controversy is explained easily:
installer-distro-altlinux-generic has very few
modules to the point of being inconvenient for
anything but quick rounds of basic testing,
and distributions rather do need network setup
along with a non-privileged user.
This bunch of commits was done so these can be
mixed and matched (or even reverted) later if needed;
it was tempting to just revamp things wholesale again
but coarse grained approach is worse to maintain.
This script hook used to lurk in live feature but was deemed needed
in cubox images too; thus it's time to move it into a standalone
feature (maybe a configurable one, even).
Thanks glebfm@ for initial shot and sem@ for discussion.
regular-xfce managed to lack NM somehow (so it even lacked
network after being installed since some build which wasn't
identified right away unfortunately); let's fix that either
during this small refactoring.
Some of those were long asking to be done but cubox project
managed to actually get them done at least to the extent
needed for it; so let's land those and prune things up a bit.
XFCE seems fine on that device while E17 has segfaulted on me so far
(specifically on Cubox and not on e.g. Nexus 7).
In a nutshell, cubox-xfce is an experiment into OEM-like flashware
while cubox-xfce-ru strives to become something more or less ready
for actual use.
lib/*.mk aren't going to be parsed for build targets
in the near future; and the early placement of those
targets was superseded by a dedicated configuration
snippet directory so just move these bits there.
Those based on x86 ones but pruned according to armh repo
presence; most notably, these are missing:
compiz compiz-gtk
java-1.6.0-sun mozilla-plugin-java-1.6.0-sun
libreoffice
remmina
xfcalendar
yagf
It was implemented in a pretty quick-and-dirty way
for regular-mate back then, clean things up a bit.
Package lists should be deduplicated either but
that's another story.
This has had several goals:
- a target suitable for x86 and armh providing a rather
minimal set of base xorg packages and generic drivers;
- task-oriented targets for graphics use cases:
+ "desktop" means rather 2D focus with 3D being welcome
or even essential but not performance critical, thus
"a slower driver is fine as long as it does work";
+ "3d" means specific 3D performance being critical,
that is "no 3D means no use at all".
Regarding the free and proprietary 3D-capable drivers:
the previous idea was to split out some common ground
and then add the contenders on top of that; the current
approach is based on the observation that the live images
requiring proprietary NVIDIA/AMD drivers *by default*
are usually of not much use with hardware that lacks
proper 3D acceleration (like Tseng cards) or the driver
support for that (like Matrox these days).
Intel videodriver makes for a special case though:
it is both free and top-notch performer.
Thanks sem@ and boyarsh@ for discussion.
PS: xorg-drv-{keyboard,mouse,void} dropped;
those who need these can usually help themselves.
These handle only VE-like products (think TWRP on Nexus 7);
the proper image support should be backported later on.
An experiment in layered configurations is still in its
early stages regarding ARM zoo...
The feature officially introduces the "engineering passwords"
including empty ones which have been around since forever but
weren't properly managed (and still are not, at least until
there are no stray passwd/chpasswd/usermod calls in both the
profile, installer-features and all the other related parts).
It is based on an m-p-d init3-users script by stanv@ but was
cleaned up and restructured in a pretty severe manner; thanks
glebfm@ for additional discussion.
This also cleans up the kludge previously stuck into build-vm.
Note that vm/icewm sports graphical autologin now as well as
the default root password (which can be overridden by passing
ROOTPW=... to make but it is a change from the previous state
of affairs indeed).
...and switch to cinnamon-regular metapackage in general:
the remaining blocker being gdm required by that and not
actually going to work (it used to start gnome-shell which
wouldn't work in that configuration either) is now fixed,
thanks cow@.
PS: plymouth is moved upstream, drop the dup.
This one is a part of a larger rewrite to move away from
distro-centric build-up to configuration-centric one with
the particular packaging being of secondary importance
compared to actual functionality.
The installed livecd would lack fstab entries for the filesystems
other than those mounted explicitly during partition step; while
this might be considered either bug or feature, let's try that
and see.
The regular images became a bit too fat and rescueish
with all the good stuff going into rescue+extra pkglist;
that stuff does belong to dedicated rescue images but not
to each and every one.
The base+rescue pkglist has been tailored to take this
into account so we can now make regular-*.iso more fit too.
It might benefit the existing users to be able to configure the
build node persistently across reboots; though the need for something
like NFS overlay or repo settings piggybacked over DHCP is still there
(just ask ildar@).
Thanks to Baurzhan Muftakhidinov's efforts along with help
from cas@ and zerg@, regular images should now support Kazakh
fairly well at least in terms of translation; this commit amends
these images with Ukrainian too and adds an experimental razorqt
based distribution that boots in kk_KZ by default.
There's no NetworkManager or connman in this lightweight image
so let's put at least the lightweight connection specific GUIs
like this one; proposed on the forum by Speccyfighter and
acked by squire as useful for traffic-metered plans:
http://forum.altlinux.org/index.php/topic,28619.msg201159.html#msg201159
A syslogd is required by interactivesystem and we definitely
don't want any extra systemd on a sysvinit image.
Thanks Speccyfighter on the forum for the observation.
A duplicate has formed while factoring out bare target;
as currently only the rescue image uses it in a special way
and that one benefits from additional crypto packages as well,
let's put LUKS related packages into bare for the time being.
The persistent storage is a nice addition to LiveCD images;
it doesn't come for free though in terms of performance
(especially for the first boot), so it should stay optional.
Note that use/live/rw belongs to base and not bare since
otherwise rescue becomes rescue+live which is superfluous;
hence the special use/rescue/rw.
Added sysklogd and udev-rule-generator-net there too; if someone
needs to inherit a systemd based image from distro/.desktop-network
don't break the existing behaviour please.
Rebased tde flavours to .desktop-network as these were the actual
target to fix.
There's some peculiarity causing Sisyphus' initrd
(namely led-ws and make-initrd{,-propagator} of today
to die with this message while booting the resulting ISO:
initrd: Running /scripts/pre/prepare/000-propagator
FATAL ERROR IN INIT: mkdir
I can't recover from this,please reboot manually and send bugreport.
Whoops, and I was mildly wondering where are alterator modules...
thanks Speccyfighter again for bringing attention to the issue
which has turned out to be ultimately caused by an overlooked bit
being missing.
This one was just asking to be built for quite a long time;
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/LiveCDs
specifically accenting use of smartmontools 6.0 has finally
persuaded me to roll out yet another rescue livecd, that is
on the regular basis.
