Mimic what make_disc_trees.pl does, making it possible for hw-detect to
spot not only the /firmware/dep11 directory in netinst images, but also
on installation images with firmware added manually.
Rename pseudo-option to clarify it returns filenames and indices.
Keep generation disabled for bullseye (as an extra safeguard, even if we
have separate, per-release branches anyway): That's helpful information
but bullseye is a stable release, and changing even unofficial material
might not be the best idea. Be cautious by default, it's easy enough to
enable if desired.
The next step for make-firmware-image is to use generate_firmware_patterns
for each firmware package that was detected. That command requires DEP-11
metadata, so needs to know which Packages file each firmware package comes
from.
Instead of building long $pkgfiles and $bp_pkgfiles strings, and passing
them to catz, build lists instead and iterate over them. This means a few
more catz calls, but that also means being able to derive the DEP-11
directory from Packages paths.
There should be no functional changes.
Treat the output file argument specifically when it's “--list-filenames”:
instead of actually generating a task file with a list of packages (and a
few comments), output the Filename field for each firmware package
matching our criteria.
Move some status messages to STDERR accordingly.
This makes the “find suitable firmware packages” reusable, e.g. by
make-firmware-image.
We have a few fully-free firmware packages in main, and a few downloaders
(e.g. b43-installer and b43legacy-installer) in contrib; the latter might
not be really interesting without an alternative connectivity during the
installation process.
Regarding non-free vs. non-free-firmware, we started moving packages[1] from
the former to the latter so that we could build official installation images
based on main and non-free-firmware only.
1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2023/01/msg00150.html
At the moment, NON_FREE_COMPONENTS still lists both, but the plan is to move
to non-free-firmware only once all the packages we want are available there.
The relevant variables regarding components include:
- CONTRIB
- NONFREE
- EXTRANONFREE
- FORCE_FIRMWARE
This commit implements:
- using main all the time;
- using contrib if CONTRIB=1;
- using NONFREE_COMPONENTS if NONFREE=1 or EXTRANONFREE=1 or FORCE_FIRMWARE=1.
At the moment it seems the only existing caller is the top-level Makefile,
only when FORCE_FIRMWARE is set. But it seems to make sense to match what
tools/apt-selection does, to avoid any surprises.
Steve McIntyre
Cyril Brulebois
Steve McIntyre