glibc recently changed how dns name resolution is implemented. It now
needs additional .so files that are loaded dynamically. Include these
files in the initramfs image.
Firefox doesn't use the system CA database but has it's own. Use the
policies.json file to let Firefox trust the entries from the
sysconfig.ca-trust of the YAML config too.
There is no dependency on NetworkManager being actually online when
sysrescue-initialize.py calls load-srm to honor the late_load_srm config
option. So without this patch this can fail when the network takes a
few seconds until the link is actually up.
Fixes#288
syslinux: this is already installed, but only through a dependency.
syslinux is essential to build a bootable image. So this should be
explicitly listed and not just as a dependency.
fatresize (10 KB): allows to resize FAT filesystems. Helpful for
example when you have to grow a EFI System Partition because it
ran out of space.
kexec-tools (70 KB): allows to directly boot into a given kernel +
initramfs without going through the BIOS or bootloader before.
Useful when the bootloader is broken, you can't immediately fix
it but want to boot the original system.
When the lua script parses the YAML config, it converts a `1` to `1.0` because in
lua all numbers are floats. So it writes out `1.0`, which is then loaded by the
python scripts later. Make the type conversion for booleans aware of this.
This allows to write something like `ar_disable: 1` in the YAML and have it
acted upon as expected.
The recently implemented type casting code doesn't work intuitively for
booleans: for example it treats a string "0" as False and doesn't show
an error message for it. So the user might be unaware of this.
So add a dedicated conversion function for booleans.
Also add checks for conversions from dicts and lists, forbid to cast them
to strings because that is most probably not what the user wants.
With the new config file merging the user could accidently overwrite the
config values with wrong types, for example a boolean with a dict or list.
This could lead to the script aborting with an exception.
Use explicit type casting and default values to ensure correct operation
in this case. This is the same as recently implemented for autorun.
Implement a dedicated conversion function for booleans to for example
treat a string "0" as False, python by default would interpret it as True.
implement autoterminal: automatically started scripts that take over a virtual terminal for user interaction
See merge request systemrescue/systemrescue-sources!196
As described in #279, systemd does not re-evaluate the dependencies of changed units and
targets when daemon-reload is executed. It just continues it's transaction as it was
configured when starting the transaction.
So a late-loaded SRM can't autostart a service.
To work around this, add an extra call to "systemctl --no-block start multi-user.target"
after the daemon-reload. This will create a new transaction after the current one and
allow new services to be added to multi-user.target in a late-loaded SRM.
This means of course that this workaround only works for multi-user.target, not other
services or targets.
serial consoles have separate systemd services (serial-getty@.service). We need to adapt
the handling and also need some different options for them than for regular gettys.
To allow sysrescue-initialize.py to differentiate between regular consoles and serial ones
they must be configured with the prefix "serial:" in the yaml, for example like this:
autoterminal:
"serial:ttyS0": "/usr/bin/bash"
moreutils (about 200k): several small shell utilities
I want to use lckdo for improving mountall. Also ts is helpful when you have a
datastream (like from a serial console) and add timestamps to it. But there are
more helpful utils in there.
https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
python-pythondialog (about 60k): allows to easily use python to create
simple shell UIs, based on the "dialog" utility (like used for example in setkmap).
I want to use it to create menus to be used with autoterminal.
https://pythondialog.sourceforge.io/
Before this patch sysrescue-configuration.lua was executed twice each boot:
(1) during initramfs stage (2) in the regular system as sysrescue-configuration.service
While in theory both runs should create the same output, this isn't guaranteed and
differences could appear for example because of network issues. Finding and debugging
these is difficult because the output of sysrescue-configuration.lua created during
initramfs isn't available anymore when the final system is running.
This patch lets sysrescue-configuration.lua just run once during initramfs. The
output JSON file is then written to the new tmpfs mounted dir /run/archiso/config/.
This dir is also made the new default location for sysrescue-effective-config.json.
A symlink from /etc/sysrescue/sysrescue-effective-config.json to the new location
is created for compatibility with previous releases.
