1. 04 Nov, 2011 29 commits
    • Michael Shigorin's avatar
      prepare for multiple live images · 5569b4fc
      Michael Shigorin authored
      s,INSTALLER_KFLAVOUR,STAGE1_KFLAVOUR,g
      s,INSTALLER_KMODULES,STAGE1_KMODULES,g
      
      install2 isn't the only livecd around;
      so far all of these share the same kernel
      in m-p-d, and we'd rather need two+ kernels
      with dual-arch media or so; let's not complicate
      things too much at this point
      5569b4fc
    • Michael Shigorin's avatar
      clean.mk and friends: introduced CLEAN control variable · 878abab5
      Michael Shigorin authored
      make CLEAN=1 will prune workdirs after packing their results,
      so disk (or preferably tmpfs) usage will be lower
      878abab5
    • Michael Shigorin's avatar
      rough bootloader selection draft (grub/lilo) · 20844de7
      Michael Shigorin authored
      NB: needs installer-distro-altlinux-generic = 6.0-alt2
          as it doesn't require alterator-grub indefinitely
      20844de7
    • Michael Shigorin's avatar
      initial x11 desktop distro support · e78c62b4
      Michael Shigorin authored
      This one is pre-alpha quality and very basic but complete enough
      to crank out an icewm.iso successfully installing and booting
      into xdm ;-)
      
      (actually a week's on-and-off work including a pile of
      underlying infrastructure stuff which was planned already
      just not there yet)
      e78c62b4
    • Michael Shigorin's avatar
      actually released as free software · 386be9a5
      Michael Shigorin authored
      I hereby release this work under the terms of GNU General Public License,
      either version 2 or a later version at your option.
      
      The code is either taken from mkimage-profiles-desktop.git (available
      under GPLv2+) or written by me with some exceptions in the form of:
      - snippets from GNU make documentation;
      - stackoverflow.com and cmcrossroads.com articles;
      - random advice on the 'net
      to be strict; given the nature of such snippets being explicitly
      proposed as an example or for immediate reuse, I consider it feasible
      to redistribute those worked into this code.  If there's any concern
      regarding copyright, please contact me by e-mail to sort it out.
      386be9a5
    • Michael Shigorin's avatar
      .base rehashed, DISK_LISTS renamed, etc · 5f881522
      Michael Shigorin authored
      In particular:
      - .base is now generated from pieces (see image.in/Makefile)
      - s/DISTROS/IMAGES/g; s/CONFIGS/DISTROS/g (for clarity)
      - s/DISK_LISTS/MAIN_LISTS/g ("disk" was early m-p-d legacy)
      - introduced BASE_PACKAGES to complement BASE_LISTS
      - minor tweaks to Makefile (ARCH and DATE moved elsewhere)
      - libdistro.mk: dropped overlooked IMAGE_INIT_LIST copy
      - clean.mk: silly cleanup
      5f881522
    • Michael Shigorin's avatar
      distro.mk: altlinux-generic installer by default · a9e4934b
      Michael Shigorin authored
      installer-distro-server-light (using installer-feature-vm-server-light)
      is specifically tuned for Server Light needs, and in general we have
      different ones (regarding installer steps, autopartitioning profile,
      configured services, etc).  So here's the replacement.
      a9e4934b
    • Michael Shigorin's avatar
      README update · b69a8a63
      Michael Shigorin authored
      reword 'em, structurize 'em, facelift 'em too
      b69a8a63
    • Michael Shigorin's avatar
      features.in/lowmem: initial release · 24ce6f54
      Michael Shigorin authored
      This feature should absorb ha^Wmeasures for keeping install2
      memory footprint to minimum, and so far it drops things not
      critical for ru/uk/be users on the floor.
      
      Should be ported to a l10n support framework when there's one.
      24ce6f54
    • Michael Shigorin's avatar
      install2: split 85cleanup-legacy off 85cleanup-cjk · 0b0ad61b
      Michael Shigorin authored
      We have several categories of overhead data:
      - legacy 8-bit fonts, locales and gconv modules;
      - illegible fonts (e.g. 5x7 or 6x10);
      - obsolete vendor specific stuff;
      - CJK (which would require proper support anyways).
      
      Notes:
      - JIS and things like VISCII are 8-bit either
        and thus might be reconsidered as "legacy";
      - proper CJK support would probably include
        scalable fonts and an input method helper;
      - main target audience is rather ru/uk/be by now.
      
      (dropped wireless from install2 either)
      0b0ad61b
    • Michael Shigorin's avatar
      sub.in/install2/Makefile: enforce a kernel · 50e0779f
      Michael Shigorin authored
      A bit earlier the situation where there was a stage1 fallback
      for INSTALLER_KFLAVOUR as the last of KFLAVOURS, so we'd have
      an installer kernel or build would break; now the situration
      got somewhat twisted: there could be a vmlinuz in stage1 but
      no corresponding modules in install2 -- which can lead to
      different surprises but at least alterator-vm would complain
      about "Operation not permitted" on partition layout commit.
      
      The fallback is a copypaste from sub.in/stage1/Makefile though
      and should be redone properly somewhere.  The question so far
      is, where exactly?
      50e0779f
    • Michael Shigorin's avatar
      README updates · c4e0a249
      Michael Shigorin authored
      ...including hasher note, thx m-p-d.
      c4e0a249
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      moved stage1 scripts into feature.in/installer · 1a8d74e8
      Michael Shigorin authored
      All the three scripts depend on installer kernel presence in fact.
      When live/rescue are in place, these should be adjusted correspondingly,
      probably by moving them to some commonly used intermediate place.
      
      Changed stage1 banner too.
      1a8d74e8
    • Michael Shigorin's avatar
      syslinux: add vesamenu ui support · 1941e527
      Michael Shigorin authored
      ...and switch syslinux.iso over to it: syslinux-3.86-alt4's
      (actually opensuse's) gfxboot hackery doesn't properly init
      video mode so memdisk-started freedos has console troubles
      (and yesterday's hdt.c32 hassles could be avoided as well
      it seems).  And that's being implemented.
      
      Mid-term plan: try switching to syslinux4.
      
      PS: CLI fallback was actually a bug in hdt from syslinux <= 3.86-alt3
      1941e527
    • Michael Shigorin's avatar
      01-genbasedir: dropped dup cleanup · 006c30a9
      Michael Shigorin authored
      This was pulled from mkimage-profiles-desktop as is,
      and so far is useless (addons, ltsp are out of scope yet).
      
      When reintroduced, it'd better be done as a separate script.
      006c30a9
    • Michael Shigorin's avatar
      pass squashfs options from stage1 test to install2 · 5c571b9a
      Michael Shigorin authored
      This looks a bit weird (two subprofiles become a bit more
      tightly coupled) but in fact install2 does depend on stage1,
      and if stage1 doesn't create squashcfg.mk then install2 is
      just fine with defaults (provided they fit the installer kernel
      used).  A proper mkimage test infrastructure might be handy though.
      
      Also there:
      - 01-initfs: partial cleanup (bootsplash is obsolete anyways)
      - regarding 03-test-kernel's errorlevel test:
        if 0, 1 and 2 need to be distinguished, "!" MUST NOT be used
        as it negates so that 0 becomes 1 and the rest becomes 0
      5c571b9a
    • Michael Shigorin's avatar
      stage1/Makefile: serialize prereqs · 71c59a45
      Michael Shigorin authored
      The problem rarely manifested itself on 8-way server
      in the form of attempt to copy ./syslinux while it
      wasn't there yet.  The proper fix should include
      interdependencies but this kluge works either;
      didn't observe this with other subprofiles.
      71c59a45
    • Michael Shigorin's avatar
      image.in/Makefile: workaround for alterator-pkg · 5d2ca2ff
      Michael Shigorin authored
      It would handle regular expressions but choke with
      multiple words per line, ouch!
      5d2ca2ff
    • Michael Shigorin's avatar
      installer firmware support · e53b6acb
      Michael Shigorin authored
      Thanks go to lakostis@ (see #18047) for all the aic94xx reminders
      and the final testing of the proposed image.
      e53b6acb
    • Michael Shigorin's avatar
      README updates · faafaf12
      Michael Shigorin authored
      ...and some more cosmetic fixes
      faafaf12
    • Michael Shigorin's avatar
      kernel and BUILDDIR fixes · c2f70e5c
      Michael Shigorin authored
      - image.in/functions.mk: rework kpackage()
        + it takes two arguments explicitly now: this adds some noise
          for "generic" invocations but is rather less messy with recently
          introduced STAGE1_KFLAVOUR (which in its turn is rather cleaner
          than messing with KFLAVOURS, especially since soemthing changed
          in presumably apt and we can't rely on kernel packages being
          installed in the order formed).
      - BUILDDIR/DEBUG related fixes
        + Makefile: BUILDDIR initialization moved to distro.mk
      - build.log += git info
      c2f70e5c
    • Michael Shigorin's avatar
      server-ovz; KDEFAULT; syslinux features reworked · 3f012958
      Michael Shigorin authored
      Renamed server-light.iso into server-ovz.iso to avoid brand dilution
      and confusion (rider@'s server-light rather favours kvm, anyways).
      
      Introduced KDEFAULT: a reliable default kernel chooser knob
      since apt's regex ordering proved pretty unreliable.
      Spelling things explicitly is better anyways.
      
      SYSLINUX related features undergone pretty major rewrite
      (that includes syslinux, hdt and memtest).
      
      The problem to tackle was features.in/syslinux/generate.mk
      assuming syslinux and pciids available in build *host* system;
      this well might not be the case (or worse yet, those can be
      just different).  So now we're a bit less elegant and a bit
      more enterprise, stuffing things into chroot and working there.
      
      Bunch of other fixes along the road, including ; to name a few:
      - fixed memtest entry (overlooked while renaming SYSLINUX_ITEMS)
      - new and shiny doc/CodingStyle
      - gfxboot, stage1 target chain, hdt tweaks
      - distro.mk rehashed
      - README++
      - TODO: dropped (integer overflow anyways)
        + actually moved off-tree to reduce commit spam
      - s,\.config\.mk,distcfg.mk,g
      - doc/profiles.mk.sample: sample ~/.mkimage/profiles.mk
      - ...and assorted fixups/additions
      
      Sorry for convoluted commit, this would have been pretty hard to
      rework into some really readable shape (and you might be interested
      in the original repo's history horrors then, anyways).
      3f012958
    • Michael Shigorin's avatar
      initial logging subsystem · d93989a3
      Michael Shigorin authored
      Now we don't dump all the gory details onto thee
      but rather log them handsomely and present only
      the most important details by default; use DEBUG=1
      and/or BUILDLOG=/path/to/file to tweak.
      
      Also introduced IMAGEDIR and IMAGENAME.
      
      The rest:
      - ovz-smp is no more
      - base-l10n pkglist (suggested by Alexander Kuprin)
      - clean.mk:
        + fixed an oversight: the test result erroneously applied
          only to the first command of several ones that should be
          run iff build/ is a symlink
        + drop implicit rules (it's no C code)
      - Makefile: more reasonable iso names
      - image.in/Makefile: .disk/date too
      d93989a3
    • Michael Shigorin's avatar
      README updates · e96e2e78
      Michael Shigorin authored
      - README: concept++
      - pkg.in/README: converted to utf8
      e96e2e78
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      assorted fixups · ace5cb0f
      Michael Shigorin authored
      - more thorough build stages inline doc
      - quieter BUILDDIR instantiation
      - branding-altlinux-sisyphus by default
      - prettify installer selection somewhat
      - mkimage #24669 fixed upstream
      - sub.in/stage1/modules: +drm (as in m-p-d, for KMS)
      - tags2lists: generalize a bit
      ace5cb0f
    • Michael Shigorin's avatar
      kernel day · 16e763e9
      Michael Shigorin authored
      - drop hardwired kernel flavour from pkglists
      - today's std-ng lacks aufs, let's switch to un-def
      - second assault at KERNEL_PACKAGES_REGEXP
      - re-introduced kpackages (builds ok)
      
      PS: base lists: switch to grub, add udev, cleanup
      16e763e9
    • Michael Shigorin's avatar
      tagged lists updates · 62f7ad5b
      Michael Shigorin authored
      tags2lists was tweaked to work on the more natural word boundaries
      than explicit "_", and the lists were renamed accordingly.
      
      Dropped the borrowed pkglists by the way.
      62f7ad5b
    • Michael Shigorin's avatar
      drop autoconf, a few vars in .mk suffice · d77e1d8d
      Michael Shigorin authored
      A major change in approach largely thanks to discussions
      with Alexey Cheusov but also well aligned with my own findings:
      autoconf doesn't let the variables to form an inheritance.
      
      And data flow described at http://www.altlinux.org/WhiteLabel
      (which in its turn was born thanks to Gavin Henrick of Diva Telecom
      and to Alexander Bokovoy of SaM-Solutions) is really dependent on
      the existence of such an inheritance.
      
      Also:
      - distro.mk += try()
      - "hide" special targets
      - fixed wrt distro/.{base,init,metaconf}, thx gns@
      - README updates
        + added metaconf.mk
        + clarifications
      - updated pci.ids location for hdt
      d77e1d8d
    • Michael Shigorin's avatar
      docs day · 9c883d39
      Michael Shigorin authored
      ToC:
      - introduced doc/
      - features.in/00example/
      - READMEs and TODO for more
      - code comments clarified
      
      Some unrelated minor fixes bundled either.
      9c883d39
  2. 03 Nov, 2011 11 commits