This option allows to make smallest images even smaller by reducing
amount of installed locales.

Use it in the image filename, so we'll know what version of a distro
it is.

This is a fix to previous failures of
ve/vm + use/repo/main build attempts
(in fact, any non-distro/ targets).

SUBDIRS were just optimized away...

This isn't a warning cause, this is a error cause!

Weird but the last round of image builds on e2k started complaining:

  Makefile:95: *** target file `debug' has both : and :: entries.  Stop.

Looks like these should have been fixed indeed.
But why didn't this surface before then?

NB: PKGDIR might be overridden now so that these functions
can be used within both metaprofile and generated profile
contexts; this isn't clean but I couldn't come up with
anything better so far.

These are alike to lists/groups ones.

Bring the stage/step prefix into line for those greppin' through.

The issue at hand is that:

/etc/tcb/USER/shadow gets USER:auth ownership (OK);
/etc/tcb/USER/shadow- backup file is root:root (broken);
/etc/tcb/USER/shadow.lock file is also root:root (broken).

This is observed for all pseudousers created by package installation
process within working chroots as well as for users created by deflogin
feature; the problem is that e.g. echo USER:PASS | chpasswd will break.

Looks like the cuplrit might be fakeroot/faked.

(rather cosmetic changes)

Looks like there's some issue with fakeroot as pseudousers
created with useradd during package installation have their
/etc/tcb/*/shadow files with proper permissions ($user:auth)
but shadow- and shadow.lock belong to root:root which makes
passwd(1) fail.

Aimed at live images at first but should cover installers as well.

This has been brewing for quite some time and while the proper
implementation is considerably more complex (and hard to do)
looks like there's demand for the particular important use case,
namely LiveCDs for Russian users, so this code has been shared
with a few people before merge.

This function's got its argument order chosen for "aesthetical"
reason of $(2) following $(1) in the macros but the logical order
is exactly the opposite: we care for kernel flavour much more than
for module set (which is dependent upon it).

So while silent dropout of kernel-image if KFLAVOURS is set
but KMODULES is empty could be fixed by testing for $(2) only,
it looks like a good time to fix this discrepancy altogether.

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.

These have been proofread somewhat to correspond
to the current state of affairs; a missing one
was added for fonts feature.

These generated directories aren't part of a profile itself.

It appears that manually specified IMAGEDIR, e.g. by adding

  IMAGEDIR = ~/out/$(shell date +%Y%m%d)

to ~/.mkimage/profiles.mk, might be problematic due to
missing globbing.  Let's make sure the paths are globbed
and directories are created -- since make's wildcard()
returns an empty string when there's nothing there [yet].

0.2.6 has fixes for xorriso and support for refind.

The initial approach required some quite involved postprocessing
as described in http://www.altlinux.org/UEFI#HOWTO; after having
ironed out the kinks so that initial EFI support could be merged
into mkimage proper we're better off just using it, eh?

The issue actually hit image.in/Makefile: "metadata" target
in features.in/metadata/lib/50-metadata.mk wasn't reached
even if features.in/build-distro/lib/90-build-distro.mk
would ACK that the "whatever" actions included "metadata";
thus Metadata/pkg-groups.tar wasn't created and the installer
silently failed to install the .base system.

Let's armour the rest of the cases where the order of inclusion
might be important as well.

hsh-initroot leaves the chroot's root directory permissions
as 1775 while these should really be 755 at most; let's fix it
(important for both VE and VM images, useful for rescue/livecd
ones as well -- especially those with an installer onboard).

Another feature suggested by Michael Radyuk (torabora):
some images are known alpha/beta quality, it's more handy
to just state this at the build time than to rename by hand.

As it happens, adding another architecture required almost no changes;
native 32-bit ppc build took only ARCH and a repo, qemu-ppc one still
has problems (/.host/entry hangs while unpacking setup for fakedata).

Proof of concept on a QS22:

  $ make ve/bare.tar.gz
  ** ARCH: ppc
  /bin/sh: rpmvercmp: command not found
  21:41:01 cleaning up
  21:41:03 initializing BUILDDIR: build/
  21:41:03 preparing distro config
  21:41:05 starting image build (coffee time)
  21:42:48 done (1:42)
  ** image: $TMP/out/bare-20120716-ppc.tar.gz [21M]

There was some extra duplication, just clean it up.

mkimage and hasher can make use of qemu to run
non-native binaries while working on the chroots;
thanks kas@, manowar@ and sbolshakov@ for implementing
this functionality as well as providing nice examples
through mkimage-profiles-arm and mkimage-profile-armrootfs.

This required the architecture check to be added since baking
a tarball with "arm" as its specified arch and x86_64 inside
isn't particularly good thing to let slip through; however
the implementation is quite fragile, bugreports and patches
are seriously welcome.

NB: APTCONF evaluation order between lazy make and nimble shell
turned out to be quite a delicate issue in this particular case.

The only thing to be fixed was setarch(8) symlinks assumption
that is correct for x86 but not for ARM.

There's also some hasher(7) setup to be done:

  mkdir -p ~/.hasher
  echo >> ~/.hasher/config <<-EOF
  def_target=arm
  #cache_dir=$HOME/tmp	# depends on RAM/storage configuration
  EOF

...and of course apt(8) should be properly set up too.

An example PoC build on a CM-A510 board (tmpfs):

  $ make BRANDING=altlinux-centaurus ve/bare.tar.gz
  ** ARCH: arm
  18:10:45 initializing BUILDDIR: build/
  18:10:45 preparing distro config: build/distcfg.mk
  18:10:46 starting image build: tail -f build/build.log
  18:14:49 done (4:02)
  ** image: $TMP/out/bare-20120706-arm.tar.gz [23M]

$(IMAGE_NAME).$(IMAGE_TYPE) -> $(IMAGE_NAME)-latest-$(ARCH).$(IMAGE_TYPE)

Allow to put the log files and reports in a custom directory instead
of IMIGEDIR.

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

This further refines the modular build by making
metadata being a clearly separated feature rather
than having to rely on runtime tests, and also by
moving the code which cares for kernel bits of base
installation (.base list) in a feature of its own.

There's more to it but let's get the ball rolling first.

As duly noted by glebfm@, branding issues need more attention
by now since only stage1/install2 got some of it so far in this
regard.  Hence the dedicated feature comes to the rescue
(well no, it doesn't actually mess with rescue!).

Following m-p-d, a more involved default output directory
structure is feasible now:

  ~/out/name/date/name-date-arch.type

instead of plain

  ~/out/name-date-arch.type

This particular behaviour can be achieved by passing
SORTDIR='$(IMAGE_NAME)/$(DATE)'; note the single quotes.

Reports are also saved in this resulting structure
albeit the place is still highly debatable.

Status updates and readability tweaks all over the place.

Checking the image size is one of the usual things
after building it, and there's some media related
testing to be ported from m-p-d as well.

Mostly multiline compactions, but also use/install2/net
got factored out from distro/server-ovz for future reuse.

From now on, non-empty SAVE_PROFILE variable will indicate
the need to carry the particular generated profile inside
the image built from it.

Thanks gns@ for this feature in liveflash.eeepc.

MKI_VERSION was tested against even before the config.mk
that defines it got included.  Ouch.