- 10 Apr, 2012 1 commit
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Michael Shigorin authored
A pretty common issue breaking the image build is inter-package file conflict resulting in hsh-install failure down there. Let's bring that back to attention conveniently.
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- 09 Apr, 2012 11 commits
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Michael Shigorin authored
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Michael Shigorin authored
- massive squashfs tuning
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Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy authored
sub.in/stage2/image-scripts.d/99cleanup-boot, livecd-install need /boot files too
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Michael Shigorin authored
glebfm@ asked what to do with new package lists: whether these belong to features, or to distributions themselves. This question is actually open and up for discussion but there are guidelines that can and should be written down already; and so they were. Added pkgdups utility reference as well.
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Michael Shigorin authored
Multiple ARCHES won't just magically work without the ability to figure out the correct apt.conf; fortunately there's just the right example handy in profiles.mk.sample already. Thanks glebfm@ for feedback.
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Michael Shigorin authored
Looks like the 128k default block size is pretty well chosen: it saves ~6% of image size compared to 64k, and subsequent differences are ~3% per doubling the block size up to 1M (thanks led@ for carrying out the tests). So we'll stick with 256k for "normal" xz compression (inodes uncompressed) and get 512k back for "tight" one (compressed). The runtime performance issues are to be examined yet when bootchart or the like is deployed, nothing drastic though. With "fast" (gzip/lzo) squash compression inodes go unmolested. For the record, tight live-webkiosk builds as 95M image in 3:40, and tight live-flightgear.iso builds as 669M image in 6:34. Nice. There's no much sense going for 1M block size: e.g. live-webkiosk would drop to 93M (3:46) but its load time would increase up to 2:07 as compared to 1:48 for -b 524288 and 1:42 for -b 262144 -noI on a Duron 500/512M system given the very same DVD+RW media.
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Michael Shigorin authored
If there's no dot(1) then its input file should just be stored; thanks glebfm@ for reminding about this.
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Michael Shigorin authored
Should be removed when console autologin is there (mind the live-builder).
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Michael Shigorin authored
The existing implementation would handle kernel differences just fine but a bit too automatically: if it sees xz support, that's what will end up being used (and if there's -Xbcj binary compression filter available for the target platform, it will be applied unequivocally either). It's perfectly suitabe for getting fine-tuned release images but is also a bit too resource-consuming while developing the image configuration which has no business with its compression. The one and only knob is SQUASHFS (see doc/variables.txt); to give an idea of the differences, here are some numbers for a mostly-binary (43% as per 99-elf-stats) webkiosk livecd and a rather less so (18%) flightgear one on a dual quad-core X5570 node (each mksquashfs run used up all the cores): SQUASHFS | live-webkiosk.iso | live-flightgear.iso ---------+-------------------+--------------------- fast | 3:30 / 130M | 5:11 / 852M normal * | 3:37 / 100M | 5:35 / 688M tight | 3:50 / 98M | 6:47 / 683M Thus if the knob isn't fiddled with, the defaults will allow for a reasonably fast build of a pretty slim image; if one is building a release or if a particular image is very sensitive being close to the media capacity then just add SQUASHFS=tight and see it a percent or two down on size. Please note that lzo/gzip-compressed images are also quicker to uncompress thus further helping with test iterations. Thanks to led@ and glebfm@ for helpful hints and questions.
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Michael Shigorin authored
APM enabled notebooks would usually hibernate to a partition of special type and special format; thus to make use of this APM BIOS feature folks might need a corresponding formatter.
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Michael Shigorin authored
This kind of test was proposed by led@ to gather statistics on chroot's contents going to become squashfs (the script optimizations lowering added overhead from ~10 sec down to a subsecond range were also proposed by him). Intentionally not documented in doc/variables.txt due to the rather lowlevel nature of the probe (at least so far). The knobs involved are SQUASHFS (the additional effort kicks in only for "tight" case) and GLOBAL_SQUASHFS_SORT (must be non-empty for this extra overhead to occur). Additional experimentation is needed to find out whether the difference in squashfs size and performance is worth the trouble (seems the impact is non-zero but pretty minor).
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- 07 Apr, 2012 2 commits
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Michael Shigorin authored
gns@ has 512k, led@ suggests that it's too much a bit; let's try 256k.
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Michael Shigorin authored
bin/ prefix tried to become a permatemp(tm). No way.
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- 06 Apr, 2012 1 commit
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Michael Shigorin authored
Thanks Chernetsky Andrey for testing and suggesting it. (NB: currently only t6 build is proper, see input-utils bugs)
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- 03 Apr, 2012 1 commit
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Michael Shigorin authored
There is at least one known deficiency for mkimage-profiles: build.log will be truncated if verbose mode is enabled and hasher version is lower than 1.3.22. The check is done here since it's where the logging is arranged, and doing it in image.in/Makefile would result in the warning about log-truncating software being truncated by the said software. Thanks Max Kosmach for reporting this inobviousity.
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- 02 Apr, 2012 5 commits
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Michael Shigorin authored
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Michael Shigorin authored
- better live-webkiosk and initial live-flightgear - cleanup, syslinux, xorg feature tweaks
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Michael Shigorin authored
Status updates and readability tweaks all over the place.
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Michael Shigorin authored
A very basic server image with sshd onboard for testing and very basic installs; thanks legion@ for the query.
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Michael Shigorin authored
The output was still somewhat ragged in 80x24 terminal window with fmt(1) which wasn't anticipating the word length difference subsequent column(1) would have to cope with later on. Thanks Loic Cattani for his shell columnizer implementation: https://github.com/Arko/Columnize
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- 31 Mar, 2012 6 commits
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Michael Shigorin authored
Thanks snejok@ for spotting the missing, I didn't get around to tests with headphones... Also fixed nouveau getting in after target shuffling, and tweaked firefox homepage to be useful in this context.
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Michael Shigorin authored
There are three more variables to adjust the redirect page: HOMEPAGE, HOMENAME and HOMEWAIT; e.g. live-webkiosk is now quite a bit more whitelabel.
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Michael Shigorin authored
- incompatible change (to fix the rather broken early style): use/syslinux/ui-% is now use/syslinux/ui/%; - default timeout changed to 9 seconds (long enough and keeps the countdown in a single figure); - added totaltimeout of 300 seconds; - provided live kiosk images with almost-instant boot by default; ...and some other assorted tweaks here and there, sorry.
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Michael Shigorin authored
Thanks to a reviewer who came with useful feedback and a goal: http://www.opennet.ru/openforum/vsluhforumID3/83728.html#136 the live-webkiosk image got forked into a separate one: - dropped DRI, virtualbox GA, mc & co, docs, rpmdb; - added Russian keyboard layout (ctrl+shift to toggle); - rebased live-webkiosk onto live-webkiosk-mini ;-) Maybe vbox guest additions will get back but rpmdb is a bit impractical on a kiosk squashfs image, even in presence of aufs rw overlay.
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Michael Shigorin authored
Now is the time for all fonts to be pulled in when needed and not along with the X server and hardware drivers; tablet support is moved to a (preexisting) specific target either. There's no need now to arch-discriminate a few older drivers too.
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Michael Shigorin authored
There's much reason for reuse instead of duplication among the different stage2-based subprofiles. In particular, the rather monolithic driver cleanup script of the ancient is better done in several clear pieces with the final depmod run. Scripts dropping apt/rpm databases will dump pkglist first. A script purging /boot/* will honour live-install if present. Minor inno^Wfixups all over the map too.
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- 30 Mar, 2012 1 commit
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Michael Shigorin authored
Folks asked to include aptitude in desktop user distros: http://www.opennet.ru/openforum/vsluhforumID3/83728.html#117
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- 29 Mar, 2012 1 commit
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Michael Shigorin authored
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.
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- 28 Mar, 2012 4 commits
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Michael Shigorin authored
Removing /boot stuff from the live root was a nice idea to spare some space except that live-install depends on it...
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Michael Shigorin authored
This one should help (erm... hope not the other way around!) testing both 3D setup and FlightGear packages I happen to maintain in a known clean environment.
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Michael Shigorin authored
The previous configuration would result in intel-only 3D being available since nouveau and radeon kernel modules are packaged separately with most kernel-images; getting NVIDIA/AMD drivers in is more tricky due to availability of both proprietary and free implementations with the choice being rather a tradeoff in each case (somewhat less so with ATI/AMD drivers). So this is a first shot at the problem: FlightGear would freeze on me with today's nouveau.
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Michael Shigorin authored
This is actually a band-aid until decent l10n is there...
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- 27 Mar, 2012 2 commits
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Michael Shigorin authored
The <html> tag wasn't closed but actually duplicated; thanks Aleksey Ilchenko for spotting.
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Michael Shigorin authored
127 is also returned by dot(1), and we're toasted if unable to create $(BUILDDIR).
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- 26 Mar, 2012 5 commits
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Michael Shigorin authored
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Michael Shigorin authored
- ISO9660 metadata support - initial alien VE image
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Michael Shigorin authored
Thanks someone for review and feedback: http://www.opennet.ru/openforum/vsluhforumID3/83728.html#136 Better cleanup and i18n controls are due but in the meantime, let's at least build something actually useful.
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Michael Shigorin authored
"Alien" rather means "CentOS-based" than "xenophilic" here; in case you still wonder: http://www.altlinux.org/Hasher/CentOS
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Michael Shigorin authored
As was noted by Alexey Shabalin in libosinfo context, current ALT Linux images tend to lack ISO9660 metadata -- which they did have back in the day of Master 2.4. Please note that the data collection occurs this way due to mkimage's config.mk resetting the values to be empty; this was worked around by using another config file, $(BUILDDIR)lib/iso.mk, and including it later but that would require a separate target with per-target CONFIG variable which isn't elegant at all given the need to actually build up the metadata set. So the variables were changed (to be more readable anyways) and then proxied back to BOOT_*. This might be cleaned up some day after the inclusion order is tweaked or mkimage defaults get set-if-unset-yet (?=).
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