September 2009 - Arch-releng - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-releng] [PATCH] Fix grub lines for various encryption setups
by Thomas Bächler 06 Mar '10

06 Mar '10

The first one used a deprecated syntax and failed whenever / was not called /dev/mapper/root The second one got a cosmetical cleanup to be more consistent with what was set during the installer The third one also failed whenever / was not called /dev/mapper/root --- src/core/libs/lib-ui-interactive.sh | 9 +++++---- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/core/libs/lib-ui-interactive.sh b/src/core/libs/lib-ui-interactive.sh index 586abc9..d9f8795 100644 --- a/src/core/libs/lib-ui-interactive.sh +++ b/src/core/libs/lib-ui-interactive.sh @@ -1089,20 +1089,21 @@ generate_grub_menulst() { then debug 'FS' 'Grub kernel line? Found / on dm_crypt on raw' raw_device=`echo "$ANSWER_DEVICES" | sed -n '2p' | cut -d ' ' -f1` - kernel="kernel $subdir/vmlinuz26 root=$raw_device ro" + crypt_device=`echo "$ANSWER_DEVICES" | sed -n '1p' | cut -d ' ' -f1` + kernel="kernel $subdir/vmlinuz26 root=$crypt_device cryptdevice=$raw_device:`basename $crypt_device` ro" elif echo "$ANSWER_DEVICES" | sed -n '1p' | grep -q 'lvm-lv$' && echo "$ANSWER_DEVICES" | sed -n '4p' | grep -q 'dm_crypt$' && echo "$ANSWER_DEVICES" | sed -n '5p' | grep -q 'raw$' then debug 'FS' 'Grub kernel line? Found / on lvm on dm_crypt on raw' lv_device=`echo "$ANSWER_DEVICES" | sed -n '1p' | cut -d ' ' -f1` - vg_device=`echo "$ANSWER_DEVICES" | sed -n '2p' | cut -d ' ' -f1` + crypt_device=`echo "$ANSWER_DEVICES" | sed -n '4p' | cut -d ' ' -f1` raw_device=`echo "$ANSWER_DEVICES" | sed -n '5p' | cut -d ' ' -f1` - kernel="kernel $subdir/vmlinuz26 root=$lv_device cryptdevice=$raw_device:`basename $vg_device` ro" + kernel="kernel $subdir/vmlinuz26 root=$lv_device cryptdevice=$raw_device:`basename $crypt_device` ro" elif echo "$ANSWER_DEVICES" | sed -n '1p' | grep -q 'dm_crypt$' && echo "$ANSWER_DEVICES" | sed -n '2p' | grep -q 'lvm-lv$' && echo "$ANSWER_DEVICES" | sed -n '5p' | grep -q 'raw$' then debug 'FS' 'Grub kernel line? Found / on dm_crypt on lvm on raw' crypt_device=`echo "$ANSWER_DEVICES" | sed -n '1p' | cut -d ' ' -f1` lv_device=`echo "$ANSWER_DEVICES" | sed -n '2p' | cut -d ' ' -f1` - kernel=" kernel $subdir/vmlinuz26 root=$crypt_device cryptdevice=$lv_device:root ro" + kernel=" kernel $subdir/vmlinuz26 root=$crypt_device cryptdevice=$lv_device:`basename $crypt_device` ro" elif echo "$ANSWER_DEVICES" | sed -n '1p' | grep -q 'raw$' then debug 'FS' 'Grub kernel line? Found / on raw' -- 1.6.4.1

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[arch-releng] [PATCH] Wrong sentence was corrected
by Laszlo Papp 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

Signed-off-by: Laszlo Papp <djszapi(a)archlinux.us> --- src/core/libs/lib-ui-interactive.sh | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/core/libs/lib-ui-interactive.sh b/src/core/libs/lib-ui-interactive.sh index 586abc9..8a66522 100644 --- a/src/core/libs/lib-ui-interactive.sh +++ b/src/core/libs/lib-ui-interactive.sh @@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ interactive_filesystem () [ $part_type = raw -o $part_type = lvm-lv ] && which `get_filesystem_program dm_crypt` &>/dev/null && FSOPTS="$FSOPTS dm_crypt DM_crypt_Volume" fs_create=no - ask_yesno "Do you want to have this filesystem re(created) ? If not, make sure there already is a filesystem!" && fs_create=yes + ask_yesno "Do you want to have this filesystem (re)created ? If not, make sure there already is a filesystem!" && fs_create=yes # determine FS fsopts=($FSOPTS); -- 1.6.4.4

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[arch-releng] automated installation media builds?
by Dieter Plaetinck 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

1) should we automatically build images all the time and improve things gradually instead of releasing every 2 kernel versions? I think we should. It would be nice to have "testing" images continuously updated, and perhaps a way for users to easily provide feedback so we can have an idea on how stable the images are. and sometimes we could still build/release "stable" images. But, IIRC some people (Aaron?) said some mirror admins might not like the increased traffic caused by continuously changing images. 2) how clean are our chroots at this point? It should be safe to just run '/usr/local/bin/releng-chroots recreate' whenever we want, but afaik we had various patches. are all of these integrated now?

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Re: [arch-releng] Wondering about the lvm/dmcrypt in the new AIF
by Dieter Plaetinck 16 Sep '09

16 Sep '09

On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:01:42 -0400 Peter Constantinidis <peter(a)constantinidis.ca> wrote: > Hi: > > I have a SSD.. I was wondering if the new installer contains options > to allow for partition alignment? Alignment is critical for SSDs.. > needs to be done 3 times.. > > 1st with fdisk. we use cfdisk > > 2nd for dmcrypt the option: --align-payload (with appropriate value) > > 3rd for LVM: pvcreate --dataalignment (with appropriate value) When creating filesystems, you can optionally specify additional options for the appropriate program (mkfs, pvcreate, cryptsetup, etc) > > If it doesn't, then the need to do it all manually still exists if one > has a SSD. I'm thinking a series of questions like "do you have a > ssd?" Y -> "do you know the block size?" Y-> "512k" and then it would > enter the appropriate values for all commands based on the hardware > block size of the SSD. > I don't want to hand-hold any more then we do now. Maybe we should put a note in the installation guide to use those options. > The other thing I am thinking is, if Arch is supposed to force people > to read and do everything manually, then wouldn't this installer > script begin to venture into pre-packaged territory? Don't know what you mean with "pre-packaged territory" but there are definitely some sentiments that our interactive installer is trying too hard and is not KISS. See http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2009-August/000721.html Note that you can also do automated installations. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_Arch_Linux_Install_Guide#Autom… > > All the best, > P. > > Disclaimer: I have never installed Arch but I am very interested in it. Dieter

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[arch-releng] Assisting Chriss or adopting his CD as a separait project for Arch blind Users
by Keith Hinton 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

Hi, As one of Chris Branon's friends, and as one who has submitted valuable feedback, I'd like to see Chrisses CD get more support from the Arch team leads, etc. I also have another suggestion. Why couldn't core snapshots be automatically generated, and Chrisses CD/and the other official images could be all updated? As newer kernels came out, we could even get weekly/monthly netiso images automatically wich each core update, so that we'd never have to worry about waiting for 2 3 4 months or whatever. :) Just a suggestion, only. I don't expect that this could be automated. I'm just suggesting something, nothing more. But the fact that this CD of chirsses is unofficial isn't great. He does a wonderful job. I'd like to see him get more people who could build CDs, or whatever. That way he doesn't have to do all the work, and can focuss on maintaing Speakup/etc. Maybe an #Arch-Accessibility channel should be created with an associated mailing list. Your thoughts? I welcome anyone including Chris and anyone else who feels that Accessibility is important to comment on this. I will CC this to Arch-General as well so that the community in general can be made aware of this. Also, I wanted to ask why weekly builds couldn't be done? I'm talking about autobuilds, btw, taht use your isoscripts. I have seen other distros that offer accessibilty I.e. GRML, etc, wich have automatic CDs. Gentoo now has minimal stage3 tarballs, and automated snapshots, etc. Just curious why Arch hasn't done somethinglike this. Thanks so much all, happy arching, and have fun! :) P.s. My favorite feature of the LiveCD (I've only used Chrisses bc I can't use the others) is that you folks don't start anything we don't want. This might also be a nice way to have chrisses work ported to AMD64, not just I386. Maybe someone has an 64-bit box to test chrisses CDs on? :) Regards, --Keith

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Re: [arch-releng] kernel26-lts
by Dieter Plaetinck 01 Sep '09

01 Sep '09

On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:39:49 +0200 Andreas Radke <a.radke(a)arcor.de> wrote: > Morning guys. > > There's a discussion on the public dev list about my kernel26-lts. I'd > like to see it on the next iso snapshot release. > > We still have to decide to what repo it should go. It's right now in > testing and moving to core and extra is both an option. > > Now to you guys: please make a statement how you can imagine a kernel > choice for the iso (include it to the disc, download it from extra....) > and if the choice of repo would affect the iso creation and what your > opinion is. > > Please post to the list. It's up again and running. > > Thx. > > -Andy Sure. As long as it is maintained well and causes no problems/confusion with all the modules we ship and stuff (see discussion arch-dev-public), I'ld love to see this in core. I think it would just "belong" there. Any estimate on the size? i see that normal kernel packages are +- 33 MB. I heard that if we want to do multi-arch iso's (we do) we're pretty close to the limit of our current approach. But then again, we should be able to play with compression algo's and parameters for the squashfs. If the package is not in core, the user will always need to download it if he wants it which seems a drawback to me. On media that come with packages, we only put core. (because hey, core is the only thing you need to get a system up and running) The way i see this is not treating it specially: the user has a list of base packages which he can customize. if he wants the lts kernel he has to disable the normal one and enable the lts one. maybe, just maybe we make an extra dialog "which kernel do you want", but these are just UI details. Dieter

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