casync allows to sync files and disk images over the network, similar to rsync.
But it is better optimized for these cases than rsync.
https://github.com/systemd/casync/
Size is about 390 kB.
tk contains the tool "wish" which is used by the x11vnc.desktop file we provide.
So tk is a dependency of this and was accidently removed due to requirements changes
upstream.
Fixes#316
It's output is better structured than hwinfo and has been requested a
few times by users. Now it is finally packaged in Arch, so include it.
About 1 MB.
Fixes#260 and part of #115
- call yay through a wrapper to take care of root/sudo handling
- add yay-prepare to reinstall everything that was stripped for size (like /usr/include)
- yay-prepare creates a yay user and sudo rights
- the wrapper is installed in /usr/bin/yay, we want it to clash with yay-packages that aren't adapted to SystemRescue
mkpasswd is finally available packaged on Arch, so add it to allow
manually replacing a password in /etc/shadow, for when chroots or
pam don't work as wanted. Also supports advanced hash algos like
yescrypt that can't be set via the pam stack yet.
Because the source for mkpasswd is part of the whois package, it
is currently packaged as part of whois. But it might get it's own
package in the future, so add a check for /usr/bin/mkpasswd during
build time.
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.
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/
Do not include the firmware for Q-Logic Fibrechannel/Infiniband HBA firmware anymore,
as it is a similar category as the Mellanox firmware which is already not included
for some time without anyone complaining. This saves about 12 MB space on the ISO.
Implements #256
rdiff-backup and borg backup are two popular backup solutions for Linux.
Restoring backups is in scope for SystemRescue. While one could install
these packages via pacman, I consider being able to restore a backup too
important to rely for it on an external online repository. So I think it
really makes sense to have these included in SytemRescue.
rdiff-backup requires about 400 kB, python-llfuse about 200 kB.
This implements feature requests #211 and #215.
Recently SystemRescue had two regressions due to packages going missing silently (inetutils and net-tools).
This happened because these packages where pulled in through groups or dependencies and Arch decided to
either reduce the dependencies or drop them from the group. This might happen again in the future.
To reduce the possibility of this, explicitly add packages to the package list that contain tools deemed
wanted and are currently only pulled in through dependency or group. Which packages are deemed
wanted is obviously a bit subjective and could be discussed or changed if necessary.
This commit doesn't add any new packages that weren't already in SystemRescue.
inetutils contains programs like telnet and ftp.
It was previously part of SystemRescue. It was not explicitly listed, but pulled in
as dependency from openssh. Now openssh dropped the dependency listing, so it
silently disappeared from SystemRescue.
