There's still an annoying problem (a race?) manifesting itself
as installer bailing out between packages installation and lilo
setup with X segfault in logs; while the culprit is not known yet,
let's avoid that for most images by moving the bootloader request
from the former "leaf" target (which noe became a "node") into an
experimental server-systemd one.

Thanks Leo-sp50 for bringing that to my attention again; see also
http://forum.russ2.com/index.php?showtopic=3310&pid=31364&st=0&#entry31364

As was duly noted by Leo-sp50, both server.mk and desktop.mk
duplicate a few bits layered over bare distro/installer which
happened to be both a dependency (thus should reduce redundancy)
and a "real distro" target (well, it doesn't just work yet, need
to provide networking and sources.list in install2 by hand).

Fixed by moving a "node" to distro/.installer along with typical
additions and leaving a bare installer as is by now; there's a
need to get it working at least for DHCP/ftp.altlinux.org case.

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.

So far the tagged scripts concept is too fragile,
and these were used unconditionally anyways.

features.in/Makefile is broken regarding copying
tagged scripts right now...

Was broken during dot-base introduction
by wrong recipe split...

This is to fit base/extra separation better
and to avoid lvm2 creeping into VE images.

- live-related tweaks (including live.hooks support)
- terminal server and webkiosk images

xorg-drv-intel doesn't pull it in at the moment:
https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/25044

Rather convenient for native flash images but can also be
beneficial with usual ISO by editing one before burning it.

The implementation builds upon liveflash.eeepc by gns@;
thanks <sol/codis.ru> who suggested adding it to live-webkiosk

This one starts up a Firefox session in kiosk mode
(there are several extensions, I find hsv@'s one
preferable) and tries to browse /image/index.html
which corresponds to index.html in the image root
(could be edited by means of e.g. isomaster).

It's rather unexpected that someone would do an X11 LiveCD
without user autologin -- but even if that's the case,
then this waypoint is just not used for it.

Thanks ildar@ for the reminder:
http://www.altlinux.org/Talk:ALT_Linux_5.0_Rescue

Document the one-way nature of bootloader type switching.

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

That way it's at least marginally useful...

Courtesy of prividen@, there's actual x86_64 client support in ALTSP.
Although led@ tells that it's i586 optimization that hurts on i686+
and should be replaced with either i486 or i686 for that matter...

Sort of builds on current Sisyphus with ltsp-related packages
fixed up in a pocket but the latter are rather in need of some
proper face-lift.

A larger block size was recommended by led@;
gns@ seems to concur as the 512k value was borrowed
from liveflash.eeepc profile (along with -noI).

The other issue is with binary specific compressors:
x86 was clearly assumed while the data for an educated
guess are pretty handy.  Please note that using filters
incurs additional compression attempts for the utility
to choose the best result.

Spotted /boot/vmlinuz* in a live environment,
and wondered why waste a few megs of potentially
precious space...

- better diags for initial deployment

There was a somewhat subtle Makefile->main.mk rename leftover
lurking in "everything" target: the default Makefile got used,
not the supposed main.mk -- which resulted in an attempt to
get way too much job done (the number of builds per target
became $ARCH squared, not just $ARCH).

Huge thanks to led@ for being an inspiring pedantic!

A minimal chroot supporting extension via apt-get;
vitals if built on Sisyphus as of Jan 16, 2012:

  i586: 13M tar.xz, 58M chroot (33M w/o /usr/share/{doc,locale,man})
x86_64: 14M tar.xz, 60M chroot (35M w/o /usr/share/{doc,locale,man})

Trivial fixups (extra checks) added to two script hooks.

mkisofs can use hints on file disposition; this needs some
support on mkimage side but that's pretty trivial (hope to
see it in 0.2.2+).

Referring to install2 subprofile after it got generalized
and renamed to stage2 is an omission, better fix it late
than never.

It's burdensome for testing but at least the result
is somewhat useful then.

The point is to give Colin S. Miller the credit for
a hack to get the current goal's word-in-a-list position:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-utils/2010-05/msg00004.html

The dependency is actually long gone since the current hack
is to just replace hardwired "grub" in an installer-steps
with whatever got configured...

As was found out by Vladimir Karpinsky (thanks for patience!),
the autochosen directory might still have too restrictive mount
options -- nodev and/or noexec.  Hopefully the diags are a bit
better and faster by now.

It happens that if the host environment isn't particularly
tuned up for package builds already then bin/mktmpdir might
come up with a directory outside hasher-allowed prefix list;
now that's a shame and not a Christmas gift, clearly.

Thanks Vladimir Karpinsky for pointing this problem out too.

It was briefly mentioned in QUICKSTART but somehow managed
to evade the commandlines provided.  And while at it, let's
make errors like this more explicit to avoid extra lookups.
Oh, and fix QUICKSTART so that readers miss the hassle. :)

Thanks Vladimir Karpinsky for pointing this problem out.

Avoid extra files where a variable would suffice; and use
the more specific "syslinux.list" rather than a "files.list".

We can do textmode live images, after all.
Some sort of autologin would be useful there too
but doing it right is less obvious to me at the moment...

- multi-target, multi-arch, single-job builds

doc/variables.txt was missing the already-existing BUILDLOG
variable description, and ARCHES got added during multi-target
toplevel rewrite.  Other minor fixes come as appropriate.

The fallback case of building in a brother directory moved
from the last line of code to the first one becoming more
explicit along the way.

Support for slash-containing argument (being a tmpdir name
template prefix) has been added.

The former toplevel Makefile is now toplevel main.mk;
this change allows for multi-target, multi-arch processing
in the current toplevel Makefile.

As the "build" symlink semantics change quite considerably
when one is doing bulk builds (several pruned builddirs might
be useful for comparison), BUILDDIR is now much more likely
to be recreated: the cases when it will persist are when it's
either a single-image build or when the prefix hasn't changed.

There are some more or less subtle bugfixes and enhancements
all over the map as well.

Done within 20111230..20120102 timeframe, actually...