Suggested by zerg@, aen@ and myself upon testing.
Happens to work these days, hooray!

The reason is that the most interesting live images by now are
installable ones, and while configurable boot order is not there yet
the "classic" livecd images will require manual choice to boot.

Thanks sem@ for reminding of that FR (which is still open).

Thanks aen@ for suggesting this.

It would be great to have #28289 fixed either so that aris@
could approve the image as usable (I totally agree that it's
a major piece of real world functionality currently missing)
looks like there's sense to prepare a starter iso for tests.

Seems working.

Currently done for 40-autologin script only but might be
more widely useful: when describing an action to be done
while forming the LiveCD image, also prepare the one that
undoes the effect so that an installed LiveCD doesn't
(mis)behave as if it were young again.

NB: livecd-install provides 50-{gdm,kdm}-autologin-off.sh
hooks which can collide with ours, so let's override those
until things are sorted out properly at both sides.

PS: some half-year old nodm hacks are still in place for t6/branch
(and #27451 should be re-examined when dropping those).

- added destination homeros-nano.iso yields   minimal
  speaking image;
- added "homeros" feature contain scripts appropriate
  for general Homeros functions but need further development.

- restricted boot

The variables are best influenced by targets and not directly
to avoid architecture dependent clashes.

The current refind support implementation doesn't boot
with either USB Flash or CD-ROM for me (due to the different
actual volumes, FAT vs El Torito, accordingly).

And when it does, a host with Secure Boot present and not
disabled yet would turn the unsigned kernel down unlike ELILO
(due to rEFInd using "natural" calls to boot it).

Both issues are reported upstream; in the meanwhile let's
migrate a single test image but build the rest with elilo.

mkimage > 0.2.5 should have received enhanced UEFI support
including the ability to setup refind (#28349);
make the feature ready for that.

Let's switch the UEFI SecureBoot (aka RestrictedBoot) shim on
for all the regular images.

The implementation goes the shim[1] way as described here[2];
many thanks to Matthew Garrett and Rod Smith.

[1] http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/20303.html
[2] http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/secureboot.html

All of these individual packages should get sorted out
and shifted to pkglists at some time.

Suggested by rom_as@; see also #25713 at the moment.

Thanks aris@ for advice again.

It's not e17-default alone right now, gnome-icon-theme package
appears requisite at the moment so that menus and IBar aren't
half-empty regarding graphics.

Thanks aris@ for the advice and lots of patience with me.

ifconfig(8) was requested by rom_as@ and someone at opennet too.
It's legacy but habits are valuable nevertheless.

...instead of preliminary "statically linked" bits.

The creeping wireless bits should be thrown together,
including kernel modules, firmware, CLI/GUI controls,
and any plumbing required.

So far it's what should be tested, after all...
and #27941 is not so clearly about the kernel.

This should really be done in e17-default but until it's there...
(thanks aris@ for advice)

The things like fdisk are very useful on a livecd/liveflash
to carry in one's pocket indeed.

Just drop it from this pkglist.

Thanks someone for feedback:
http://www.opennet.ru/openforum/vsluhforumID3/88025.html#285

UEFI support is pretty requisite by now;
and el-smp hasn't seen updates for almost
half a year by now so an actively maintained
one is clearly preferred.

- regular images

See http://www.altlinux.org/Регулярные_сборки_образов
for the idea behind this set of images; in short, it's
*not* a bunch of polished end-user distros in a moment
but rather to facilitate Sisyphus package base testing
in as-is state during branch pre-release time.

It shouldn't overwrite the pre-existing configuration
but should fire if there's none.

Was long overdue already but let's leave that in 2012. :)

This one provides apt configuration for the LiveCD itself
as well as extra hooks for a livecd-install made system.

Installable live systems can have LUKS as well
and it's welcome addition to rescue images too.

This time it's

  xorriso : FAILURE : -volid: Text too long (33 > 32)

and todo-- as well.

It's a separate installation step to set the LUKS password;
see also #28200 for (terse) discussion and instructions on
getting this actually working for a distro.

For MATE regular images right now
but should be more widely useful.