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Re: [arch-releng] [arch-announce] New install medium 2012.09.07
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 08 Sep '12

08 Sep '12

On 09/08/2012 07:01 AM, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Pierre Schmitz wrote: > > As is customary by now there is a new install medium available at the beginning > of this month. The live system can be downloaded from [Download][1] and be used > for new installs or as a rescue system. Nice :) > * When booting via PXE and NFS or NBD the ISO will be copied to RAM to ensure > a more stable usage. Only needed files are copies (SquashFS images), not the ISO. -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi \cos^2\alpha + \sin^2\alpha = 1

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[arch-releng] Tagging a new archiso release
by Pierre Schmitz 07 Sep '12

07 Sep '12

Hi, I'd like to test and tag a new archiso release tomorrow so a new iso can be pushed this weekend. Any objections to this? Anything else that should be included into that release but is not yet commited to git? We should delay the systemd patches for a later release. It has some potentional problems on shutdown and with the proposed dhcpd service file. It's also a little untested for a last minute change. I also hadn't had time myself to look into this yet. This shouldn't be a big deal though as the next iso is only about four weeks away. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com

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[arch-releng] AIF bugs
by Jeremiah Dodds 28 Aug '12

28 Aug '12

I'm not quite sure if this is the right place to ask (if there's a better place, please let me know) -- I searched around a bit, but wasn't quite able to find what I was looking for. There are a *whole lot* of bugs for AIF in the bugtracker[1], some of which aren't relevant any more, and some of which I'm working on. I'd like to request ownership / assignment of the AIF bugs, if possible. I can certainly work my way through them, but figure that it makes some sense for me to be listed as "responsible" for them, and would also mean less poking and prodding from me as I attempt to figure out which ones are still relevant and which ones should be closed already. As a side note, I know dev action has been quiet on my front for AIF for a bit, but I've been making progress on figuring out the intent of parts of the code, and trying to set up things in such a way that they'll be more ensurably stable. I'm trying to avoid pushing stuff to github that's likely to be re-written, but should be making some public changes in the near future. Anyhow, if someone could either point me in the direction of who I should be poking, set me up with the issues in the bugtracker, or tell me that that's not something I should be asking for right now, I'd greatly appreciate it. Footnotes: [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?project=6&cat%5B%5D=40&status%5B%5D=op… -- Jeremiah Dodds blog : http://jdodds.github.com github : https://github.com/jdodds freenode/skype : exhortatory twitter : kaens

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[arch-releng] [RFC] Rework pxe hooks
by Thomas Bächler 26 Aug '12

26 Aug '12

The current PXE setup on the ISO has some drawbacks: 1) We still use ipconfig, as I stated in my previous mail. 2) Without changing the configuration, archiso can only guess where the NBD/NFS/http server is. In that guess, we abuse DHCP's next-server option, which is meant to identify the TFTP server. 3) Without changing the configuration, the user can choose between NBD, NFS and http, although only one option will actually work. When I tried addressing 1), I also noticed that dhcpcd does not parse the next-server option, so we cannot use it like we did with ipconfig. While that is easy to patch, it is still not the right way. I propose the following new setup to improve this: a) (Actually unchanged, just for clarification) DHCP sends next-server and filename as usual, sets DHCP options 209 and 210 so that pxelinux finds the configuration. pxelinux loads the kernel and initramfs and boots them. (BTW, this can already be done via http if ipxe is used, so we only need to put a single ipxe configuration file on the TFTP and the ISO only on http.) b) There is only one PXE option in the menu instead of three. This passes an option like 'archiso_pxe_autodetect=224,225' (option syntax to be discussed, explanation below) and omits the http/nfs/nbd-specific options. c) We run dhcpcd in the initramfs instead of ipconfig. We make sure to use BOOTIF= to identify the correct interface and pass that along to userspace using /run/archiso/dhcp_interface. We also copy the lease to /new_root/etc/dhcpcd/ after mounting to make sure we have a consistent IP setup. d) The DHCP server passes two strings as DHCP options. The options 224 and 225 as given above are "for private use". Option 224 contains either "http", "NFS" or "NBD". Option 225 contains the actual URL. The advantage of this setup is that we can just extract the ISO and configure everything via the DHCP server configuration file. There is no need to change the archiso bootloader configuration, and we only get a single option in the boot menu, instead of three. I can implement this, but I thought I'd put this up for comments first, as I didn't get a chance to do it yet.

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[arch-releng] [archiso] [PATCH] Put pacman keyring into a tmpfs and make the rc.d initialization one-shot
by Thomas Bächler 25 Aug '12

25 Aug '12

This saves space in the cow file, especially in the case of persistent cow images. In the future, when porting to systemd, this should be implemented using a oneshot systemd service. --- configs/releng/root-image/etc/fstab | 6 ++++++ configs/releng/root-image/etc/rc.d/pacman-init | 6 ------ 2 Dateien geändert, 6 Zeilen hinzugefügt(+), 6 Zeilen entfernt(-) create mode 100644 configs/releng/root-image/etc/fstab diff --git a/configs/releng/root-image/etc/fstab b/configs/releng/root-image/etc/fstab new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9b14c80 --- /dev/null +++ b/configs/releng/root-image/etc/fstab @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +# +# /etc/fstab: static file system information +# +# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> +tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0 +keyring /etc/pacman.d/gnupg tmpfs mode=0755 0 0 diff --git a/configs/releng/root-image/etc/rc.d/pacman-init b/configs/releng/root-image/etc/rc.d/pacman-init index bbbd719..20005c8 100755 --- a/configs/releng/root-image/etc/rc.d/pacman-init +++ b/configs/releng/root-image/etc/rc.d/pacman-init @@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ case "$1" in start) stat_busy "Initializing pacman keyring" if { pacman-key --init && pacman-key --populate archlinux; } &>/dev/null; then - add_daemon pacman-init stat_done else stat_fail @@ -16,14 +15,9 @@ case "$1" in ;; stop) - stat_busy "Removing pacman keyring" - rm -rf /etc/pacman.d/gnupg - rm_daemon pacman-init - stat_done ;; restart) - $0 stop $0 start ;; -- 1.7.12

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[arch-releng] [RFC] [archiso] Use a pure systemd enviroment
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 23 Aug '12

23 Aug '12

* rewrite automatic_script to work with systemd or completelly in automatic login shell. * research how to avoid systemd to stop archiso mounted filesystem and leave all the work to our special shutdown script in initramfs (just works, but shows lots of resource busy at shutdown)

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[arch-releng] [archiso] [PATCH] Makefile: Refactor hook handling
by Lukas Fleischer 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

Move all hooks into a list and create shell commands dynamically instead of specifying all of them in every recipe. Signed-off-by: Lukas Fleischer <archlinux(a)cryptocrack.de> --- Makefile | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------------- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 309f890..552d8cc 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1,5 +1,24 @@ V=1 +HOOKS = \ + hooks/archiso \ + install/archiso \ + archiso_shutdown \ + hooks/archiso_shutdown \ + install/archiso_shutdown \ + archiso_pxe_nbd \ + hooks/archiso_pxe_common \ + install/archiso_pxe_common \ + hooks/archiso_pxe_nbd \ + install/archiso_pxe_nbd \ + hooks/archiso_pxe_http \ + install/archiso_pxe_http \ + hooks/archiso_pxe_nfs \ + install/archiso_pxe_nfs \ + hooks/archiso_loop_mnt \ + install/archiso_loop_mnt \ + install/archiso_kms + all: install: install-program install-hooks install-examples install-doc @@ -9,23 +28,9 @@ install-program: install-hooks: # hooks/install are needed by mkinitcpio - install -D -m 644 archiso/hooks/archiso $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/hooks/archiso - install -D -m 644 archiso/install/archiso $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archiso - install -D -m 755 archiso/archiso_shutdown $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/archiso_shutdown - install -D -m 644 archiso/hooks/archiso_shutdown $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/hooks/archiso_shutdown - install -D -m 644 archiso/install/archiso_shutdown $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archiso_shutdown - install -D -m 644 archiso/archiso_pxe_nbd $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/archiso_pxe_nbd - install -D -m 644 archiso/hooks/archiso_pxe_common $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/hooks/archiso_pxe_common - install -D -m 644 archiso/install/archiso_pxe_common $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archiso_pxe_common - install -D -m 644 archiso/hooks/archiso_pxe_nbd $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/hooks/archiso_pxe_nbd - install -D -m 644 archiso/install/archiso_pxe_nbd $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archiso_pxe_nbd - install -D -m 644 archiso/hooks/archiso_pxe_http $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/hooks/archiso_pxe_http - install -D -m 644 archiso/install/archiso_pxe_http $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archiso_pxe_http - install -D -m 644 archiso/hooks/archiso_pxe_nfs $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/hooks/archiso_pxe_nfs - install -D -m 644 archiso/install/archiso_pxe_nfs $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archiso_pxe_nfs - install -D -m 644 archiso/hooks/archiso_loop_mnt $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/hooks/archiso_loop_mnt - install -D -m 644 archiso/install/archiso_loop_mnt $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archiso_loop_mnt - install -D -m 644 archiso/install/archiso_kms $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archiso_kms + $(foreach hook,$(HOOKS), \ + install -D -m 644 archiso/$(hook) $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/$(hook) ; \ + ) install-examples: install -d -m 755 $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/archiso/ @@ -37,23 +42,7 @@ install-doc: uninstall: rm -f $(DESTDIR)/usr/sbin/mkarchiso - rm -f $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/hooks/archiso - rm -f $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archiso - rm -f $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/archiso_shutdown - rm -f $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/hooks/archiso_shutdown - rm -f $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archiso_shutdown - rm -f $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/archiso_pxe_nbd - rm -f $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/hooks/archiso_pxe_common - rm -f $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archiso_pxe_common - rm -f $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/hooks/archiso_pxe_nbd - rm -f $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archiso_pxe_nbd - rm -f $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/hooks/archiso_pxe_http - rm -f $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archiso_pxe_http - rm -f $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/hooks/archiso_pxe_nfs - rm -f $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archiso_pxe_nfs - rm -f $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/hooks/archiso_loop_mnt - rm -f $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archiso_loop_mnt - rm -f $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archiso_kms + $(foreach hook,$(HOOKS),rm -f $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/initcpio/$(hook) ; ) rm -rf $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/archiso/ rm -f $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/doc/archiso/README -- 1.7.11.5

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[arch-releng] AIF help
by Mr Green 12 Aug '12

12 Aug '12

Hi jdodds, Am interested in helping out with AIF, have some experience with Arch and could help out with testing. You will of course need to to get the lay of the land first. Drop me an email MrG

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[arch-releng] [PATCH 1/2] [configs/releng] Add usb_modeswitch and wvdial to live-env
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 10 Aug '12

10 Aug '12

Implements FS#31054 Signed-off-by: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386(a)yahoo.com.ar> --- configs/releng/packages.i686 | 2 ++ configs/releng/packages.x86_64 | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/configs/releng/packages.i686 b/configs/releng/packages.i686 index f3683d3..3d30971 100644 --- a/configs/releng/packages.i686 +++ b/configs/releng/packages.i686 @@ -43,8 +43,10 @@ smartmontools speedtouch systemd tcpdump +usb_modeswitch vpnc wireless_tools wpa_actiond +wvdial zd1211-firmware zsh diff --git a/configs/releng/packages.x86_64 b/configs/releng/packages.x86_64 index 6654e28..76d0854 100644 --- a/configs/releng/packages.x86_64 +++ b/configs/releng/packages.x86_64 @@ -44,8 +44,10 @@ smartmontools speedtouch systemd tcpdump +usb_modeswitch vpnc wireless_tools wpa_actiond +wvdial zd1211-firmware zsh -- 1.7.11.4

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[arch-releng] Setting up a development envrironment for working on AIF
by Jeremiah Dodds 09 Aug '12

09 Aug '12

I just wrote a blog post[1] on what I've ended up setting up for making working on and testing AIF a bit nicer than what I started with. There's definitely room for improvement. Anyhow, I'm posting about it here in the hopes that it can help people who'd like to contribute to AIF get set up to do so in it's current state, and to see if anyone has any suggestions / tips for working with and testing on vms. If you don't want to read the blog post, the TLDR of the stack I've set up is: + qemu + git-daemon for repo-access in-vm + pacserv for avoiding network hits when running installs Footnotes: [1] http://jdodds.github.com/blog/2012/08/09/setting-up-a-development-environme… -- Jeremiah Dodds github : https://github.com/jdodds freenode : exhortatory twitter : kaens

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