We need to ensure that anna always auto-loads live-installer when running d-i
to install a live system, regardless of the presence of a udeb_include to copy.
* The ISO volume is constructed similar to Debian 11
* The file .disk/info can be overridden
* The file .disk/info does not contain 'Official' per default
* Overrides that are required for live-setup are now explicit in
rebuild.sh
* New .disk/generator contains tracable information to the rebuild.sh
script
* The ISO volume is unique for each desktop environment
no backwards compatibility hack for reading the old var from existing
saved config used because this was previously stored in the alternate
format config/build file.
Gbp-Dch: Short
this was previously not done in 8b109ffb96
to keep the renaming simple, but leaving the variable plural is a cause
for confusion.
since this property is stored in the INI style config/build config file
rather than a shell script based one, at the property there is already
singular, there was no need for a backwards compatibility hack.
Gbp-Dch: Short
whilst some parts of the codebase were set up to work with multiple types
specified, others did not work with it and would not necessarily be easy
to adjust. this thus makes some tweaks to adjust things accordingly.
- option renamed to singular form (maintaining backwards compatibility)
- a validation check has been added
- unnecessary glob style type references fixed
- checks with In_list changed to a direct singular comparison
- typo of type "netboot" written as just "net" fixed (though unreachable
so of no consequence; really the code could be removed but it's trivial)
Gbp-Dch: Short
progress-linux, as discussed in MR #142 ([1]) is a little known distro,
which appears to be little more than a personal project of the original
author of live-build.
given that, the expense of maintaining all of these old hacks for it
cannot be justified. it is not known whether or not live-build is even
used with respect to it since the author abandoned live-build some
years ago.
also, at least one past change in live-build possibly broke progress-linux
compatibility anyway, which would have required progress-linux users of
live-build to use a custom progress-linux config, or a progress-linux
fork of live-build, and there is no knowing how much of the hacks in this
"upstream" codebase any user of progress-linux currently relies upon.
and again, progress-linux appears to just be a personal project of
Daniel's, with afaik very little userbase. (Daniel seems to be the only
developer working on the project which speaks to how small it is).
[1]: https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/live-build/-/merge_requests/142
Gbp-Dch: Short
this function takes one or more required stage fileS _plural_, and exits
if any are missing (or at least it does now after the refactor).
let's rename it to make things more clear
Gbp-Dch: Short
as suggested by Raphaël
rather than have fixed stagefile filename strings at all in the scripts,
use `$(basename $0)` to use the name of the script (which is the same for
almost all cases anyway, and the stage files are supposed to be almost
exclusively unique per-script). we can thus simplify things by determining
the filename for most use cases within the functions themselves.
this does change the file used by a couple of scripts, affecting backwards
compatibility of executing live-build upon an existing partially or fully
completed build:
- binary_grub-pc used "binary_grub"
- chroot_includes used "includes.chroot"
care had to be taken for the following cases:
- there are some cases like bootstrap_cache, source_debian and
bootstrap_debootstrap which are dealing with more than one file, and/or
otherwise a filename that is not specific to the script itself exactly,
or should not be based upon its name.
- some cases like chroot_cache, bootstrap_cache and
chroot_install-packages need to append something to the end of the name
depending upon which pass/action mode the script is being executed with.
- furthermore in the bootstrap_cache case one of the filenames is used
within the bootstrap_debootstrap and thus needs very careful handling
to be certain that a change in filename of bootstrap_cache does not
break bootstrap_debootstrap.
Gbp-Dch: Short
- avoid all need to pass ".build/" path in stage file names into the
functions
- add a helper to remove a stage file (required to complete the above
properly)
- avoid duplicating filenames within scripts which makes them prone to
mistakes (some instances of which I've actually encountered and had
to fix)
Gbp-Dch: Short
Combine the check+create done in each script. (The original functions
are still callable as before, but a new combined `Aquire_lockfile`
function can be called instead, as now used).
Note, a further simplification could be done in removing the passing of
the lock filename in as a parameter since every use of the functions is
with ".lock". The lock functions already have a fallback to ".build/lock"
though. Checking the history, the fallback used to be for a system wide
lock, which was then replaced with this config-tree specific one. As long
as that is not used implicitly by 3rd-party hooks then surely we are free
to change the fallback to ".lock" and further remove passing in a name as
a param...?
history:
db5d2b0dcd0aa8289a37
Gbp-Dch: Short
Closes: #952918
Current versions of the project files are built upon versions published
and licensed by Daniel Baumann, but are modified copies of those files and
thus need to be marked as such per licensing requirements (afaik he did
not pass along ownership / licensing rights to anyone when he left the
project). We should also be careful to not be misrepresenting such
modified copies as being attributed to Daniel.
Adding a new copyright line referring to "The Debian Live team" should
suffice for this.
The authorship block in man pages has also similarly been updated.
Notes:
- tweaked a copy of daniel copyright lines stating 2014 instead of 2015.
both of these cases were in files that i had personally introduced in
some of my past merged commits that moved some code around. i don't know
why they stated 2014.
- binary_onie was introduced in 2018, so that has a 2018 date instead of
2016 unlike the rest.
- 'efi-image' is a 3rd-party (Canonical Ltd) work that we bundle, but it
has been modified by 674794a8f4 and
36a3ba7634 so I similarly added a
debian live copyright line.
- 'grub-cpmodules' is similar. it was only changed by the indentation fix
of 36a3ba7634 but modification is
modification, and this does help cover any possible future changes that
might be made.
Avoid all of the duplication for each installer case
Note, what is done for the netboot case (which was previously missing)
still needs addressing
Gbp-Dch: Short
Closes: #952865
`false` and `none` make no sense as choices for this option. Here we
replace `false` with `none`, and remove `true`.
Note that `true` was treated as an alias for netinst (see the changes to
source_disk and and binary_disk).
For backwards compatibility we still allow `true` and `false` by converting
them to `netinst` and `none` respectively, whilst printing a warning to
encourage users to move to `netinst`/`none`.
Gbp-Dch: Short
Closes: #952864
The specifics of what whould be done for it, beyond the disk info
label, needs addressing. (fixme comment left). (#952854).
Partial fix for #952846
Gbp-Dch: Short
Closes: #952846
This makes it possible to build an image against a first distribution
(--distribution-chroot) and have the resulting image point to another
distribution (--distribution-binary). We can use this to build against a
snapshot and have the result use the original distribution that was
snapshotted.
Closes: #888507
Future live-build versions will still allow to use casper,
but its configuration will be done differently by a custom
config tree, rather than embedded and maintenance intensive
code in live-build itself.
Future live-build versions will still allow to use casper,
but its configuration will be done differently by hooks
in the config tree, rather than embedded and maintenance intensive
code in live-build itself.
Previously, we needed to keep the lb_* prefix as the scripts
could also be executed standalone. Since the lb wrapper is
mandatory since squeeze, we can drop this now.
Emanuele Rocca
Roland Clobus
Lyndon Brown
Raphaël Hertzog
Daniel Baumann
Daniel Baumann