For consistency with install entries (both in live-build and
official Debian install discs).
Comparing with live-build created installer entries, grub-legacy
and grub2 both favour vga-788 for GUI entries and vga=normal for
test entries, whilst syslinux uses vga-788 for everything.
Gbp-Dch: Short
apt v2.0.1 introduced support for coloured E:/W:/N: labels. this adds
support to control it based upon our own colour control.
note that with utilities like dpkg we do not do this, but apt only uses
its new colour support automatically when `apt` is used directly, it is
not automatically enabled (per isatty()) for `apt-get`/`aptitude` (the
`apt` developer responsible for adding colour support in response to my
request for it told me that it was deliberately done like this per being
customary to not change behaviour of those tools for compatibility
reasons). colour errors/warnings are useful, so we want to turn it on for
our use of these tools where we can.
Gbp-Dch: Short
this reverts commit 0cef87ffca though
retaining the 'advanced options' menu entry using a label rather than a
title.
despite having done a lot of testing back in 2015 with my bootloader
improvements, i notice now that in fact the syslinux caret fix has an
undesired side effect of modifying the title displayed above the menus. it
does not help that the text embedded into the splash overlaps with this
menu title; perhaps this explains why i missed this problem back in 2015.
purely reverting the implemented fix solves this title problem, but
restores the caret problem to the advanced options menu (in menu.cfg);
however that menu was using a caret in a title entry, unlike everywhere
else where they are only used with labels, which must have been the
original source of the problem all along. ensuring that this menu uses a
label instead of a title in this reversion leaves everything working
correctly afaict.
Gbp-Dch: Ignore
...from the `Set_config_defaults` function, to being done directly
in `build.sh` (the component which is also responsible for loading
functions, loaded at the start of every script, including the front
end).
thus the colouring decision will now correctly...
- apply to the frontend, such as to the 'root privileges needed'
error, the 'no such script' error, and the command name
colouring that I want to add (the most significant issue).
- apply to error messages generated by the `Arguments` and
`Read_conffiles` functions, which are called before
`Set_config_defaults` by scripts.
as things were, due to the comparison with "false", colour would
_always_ be used in these places (unless _COLOR_ERR=false or
_COLOR_OUT=false wrt. the new command highlight, were set in the
environment when executing a script throught the frontend).
this would not be a problem for normal terminal use of course,
besides being inconsistent where color were turned off, but would
be a bit of a problem if redirected to a file.
a re-evaluation of _COLOR is performed in `Set_config_defaults` to
adjust _COLOR_OUT and _COLOR_ERR where necessary, to correctly
respond to _COLOR being set in saved config files (disabled by
default but a user could always enable), after the point of config
files being loaded.
_COLOR can still be controlled from the environment just as before,
overriding both _COLOR_OUT and _COLOR_ERR.
note that this does not address the fact that --color|--no-color
do not work in the frontend and thus will not impact the colouring
of to-be-introduced command highlighting. this needs to be
addressed separately.
Gbp-Dch: Short
d-i removed this in commit 0917b2dde3ff73a204d27dd2f2fffc8a41175ddd
Note: There was inconsistency between grub and syslinux in use of this, with
syslinux not having it on graphical rescue and auto modes while grub entries
did. The patch to fix that has been dropped since we're removing it everywhere
anyway.
(#395040)
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
seems to have been obsolete since all the way back at v1.0~a22-1.
history:
- in 0d0de885e3 it was renamed from
LIVE_ROOT to LH_ROOT, but also seems to have become completely
obsolete at this point, and thus mistakenly not actually removed.
before this it seems to have been used to hold the base directory of
live-build from which paths were constructed, but then this use was
removed making it redundant, but it remained in the code.
- 83bc63f725 renamed to LB_ROOT.
- a79a5bea10 dropped setting the variable
only if not already set, in favour of always setting it depending upon
LB_MODE. but still it remained unused.
Gbp-Dch: Short
when the --fdisk and --losetup options were removed, the entries in the
getopt option list should have remained for backwards compatibility such
that the usage warnings can kick in instead of unknown option errors.
Gbp-Dch: Ignore
unless `LIVE_BUILD` is set in the environment when running live-build,
this var will be empty. this will result in the frontend trying to load
the file '/scripts/build.sh', which is doubtful the file intended to be
loaded, if it exists. the intention of checking the path
"${LIVE_BUILD}/scripts/build.sh" is really only to do so if the var is
actually used, so let's only do so if it's non-empty.
since we use `set -e`, if build.sh is not found in either location then
failure will occur. if it is found, presuming it is the real file that we
expect to be found, this file sets the var to a default if it was an empty
string, thus we need not worry about use of the var later in the frontend
script.
also, the var is exported prior to exec'ing the command script, so we know
that in the command scripts it is not going to be empty, and those in
themselves loading build.sh which again exports the var ensures that it
will be set for subsequent loads of component scripts (which happens to
go through the frontend again, not that that matters. so except for at the
start of execution, it should never be found to be empty.
Gbp-Dch: Short
the frontend handles -h|--help directly and correctly redirects to the
man page.
component scripts however fail to load the correct manpage because they
are being directed to `man <script>` instead of `man lb script`.
(affects the top level commands and major build stages which actually have
man pages; the low level components don't and so will always fail anyway).
this is handled for every script in build.sh. this is not stored in the
saved config or anything, so no need to re-evaluate in
`Set_config_defaults`. this just seems to completely pointless.
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
the name of the stage is already printed earlier in the output prior to
the error here being printed. so the error really does not need to include
the script name itself.
now having investigated my suspicions of the functionality and use of
Require_stagefile(), i conclude that it has been fundamentally broken
all the way back to v1.0~a8-1 (or at least usage of it since v1.0.1-2).
gah. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
----
very early on in the history of live-build this function took the name of
a _single_ stage file only and did `exit 1` should the file not be found.
this was simple and clearly accomplished "what was on the tin", so to
speak.
in bd1a5ddc82 (2007, 1.0~a8-1) things got
weird. it was modified to support a list of multiple files. but instead of
being written to cause failure if _any_ of the listed files were missing
as perhaps one might expect, it was instead written to fail only if all
files were missing!
if you jump to the conclusion that i'm talking about a simple flipped
logic from a lack or otherwise of a `!` here, you'd be mistaken; there is
a comment inside the function that could not be more clear about what was
intended by the author - "Find at least one of the required stages"! this
makes me thoroughly confused about what they were thinking.
as we'll get to, this was fundamentally flawed (or at least its later use
was), but furthermore there were other notable issues introduced at this
point (but don't worry too much about these, they've all been addressed):
- `NAME` was modified in the loop, using the existing value, but nothing
initially set it...
- the setting of `NAME` seems related to its use in the subsequent error
output, yet they are logically separated; it is only set if a file
exists, while the error is only printed if none exist.
- it is pointlessly using a messy `CONTINUE="true"` based mechanism,
when it could just `return 0`.
- it did not handle correctly the bad use case of no params having been
supplied.
it doesn't seem to have been entirely thought through, despite its
pervasive use throughout the build system.
note that no change was made in that commit to make actual use of the
new multi-param support. it would not be used until about a year later.
the function has remained largely untouched since then. in
c68c0a2708 a notable change was made to add
an initial setting of `NAME`, which partially addressed one of the above
issues. but it did not really address the issue the change was meant to
solve, since the `NAME` as printed in the error was now the name of the
script when what was really wanted was the name of the stagefile. this was
finally fixed properly in d54990695f.
however the weirdly pointless setting of `NAME` persisted in the loop.
finally i personally just refactored the function in the commit prior to
this one, retaining the same functionality but addressing the remaining
of the above minor implementation issues.
looking at usage of the new functionality introduced in
bd1a5ddc82, it does not seem to have been
until 0cbbde2b96 (2008, almost a year after
it was made possible) that changes were made to finally start making use
of the ability to pass more than one filename at a time to the function,
and it would appear that perhaps the author forgot what it actually was
that the function accomplished when used with multiple params, and failed
to double check.
in this first use of multiple parameters, this commit went from passing
single file names to individual calls to the function to passing the files
in one single call, in a commit the purpose of which was described as
simply tidying things up. it was most certainly not intended to change
stage requirements.
unfortunately, a change in requirements did occur as a result since the
new usage of the function was not accomplishing the same as before. this
change completely broke the stage requirements protection mechanism such
that only a single one of the listed stages needed to have completed for
the check to pass, rather than all as expected.
this flaw made it into release v1.0.1-2 and it has existed every since.
in the very next commit from that one,
6204dc0e6d things got even worse. here we
see the config stage being specified commonly as the first stage listed,
which is still the case today. this means that ever since this commit,
if you've already got a config before building (which you inevitably do,
especially after some later commits introduced automatically creating it
if missing), then all other stage requirements are simply ignored.
so it seems pretty damn clear that this function is accomplishing
completely the wrong objective. it _should_ be checking that _all_ files
given to it exist, not just one or more. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
this FINALLY addresses this mistake.
(not that i wish to berate the author; i've made silly mistakes of my own
before)
- count of params is available as $#, we don't need the pipe-to-wc logic.
- the whole 'CONTINUE' based logic is silly, we can just return once one
of the files is found.
- setting of 'NAME' in the loop was completely pointless.
- the error message for multiple files was not very clear just injecting
a sequence of words into a sentence.
- it did not work correctly if no arguments were given (bad usage)
note, you might question whether the functionality of this function is
correct, as did I; this is tackled in a followup commit whilst this
commit retains the existing functionality!
Gbp-Dch: Short
as suggested by Raphaël
rather than have fixed stagefile filename strings at all in the scripts,
use `$(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
Fixes the following
- Correct version (memtest86/memtest86+) shown instead of fixed 'memtest86+' text
- Ensure correct directory path always used by using replaceable placeholder
Gbp-Dch: Short
Lyndon Brown
Luca Boccassi
Raphaël Hertzog