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.
Cyril Brulebois
Steve McIntyre
Steve McIntyre