pmbootstrap netboot command exposes the generated vendor-codename.img
rootfs through nbd interface so that device can mount it and boot
postmarketOS without having any storage medium at all.
Co-authored-by: Luca Weiss <luca@z3ntu.xyz>
Replace "args.cache" with a global variable in order to
avoid passing "args" to all functions. This is a step to get rid of this
args-passed-to-all-functions pattern in pmbootstrap.
The provider selection for "pmbootstrap init" added in this commit
is a flexible way to offer UI/device-specific configuration options
in "pmbootstrap init", without hardcoding them in pmbootstrap.
Instead, the options are defined entirely in pmaports using APK's
virtual package provider mechanism. The code in pmbootstrap searches
for available providers and displays them together with their pkgdesc.
There are many possible use cases for this but I have tested two so far:
1. Selecting root provider (sudo vs doas). This can be defined entirely
in postmarketos-base, without having to handle this specifically in
pmbootstrap.
$ pmbootstrap init
[...]
Available providers for postmarketos-root (2):
* sudo: Use sudo to run root commands (**default**)
* doas: Use doas (minimal replacement for sudo) to run root commands
(Note: Does not support all functionality of sudo)
Provider [default]: doas
2. Device-specific options. My main motivation for working on this
feature is a new configuration option for the MSM8916-based devices.
It allows more control about which firmware to enable:
$ pmbootstrap init
[...]
Available providers for soc-qcom-msm8916-rproc (3):
* all: Enable all remote processors (audio goes through modem) (default)
* no-modem: Disable only modem (audio bypasses modem, ~80 MiB more RAM)
* none: Disable all remote processors (no WiFi/BT/modem, ~90 MiB more RAM)
Provider [default]: no-modem
The configuration prompts show up dynamically by defining
_pmb_select="<virtual packages>" in postmarketos-base, a UI PKGBUILD
or the device APKBUILD. Selecting "default" (just pressing enter)
means that no provider is selected. This allows APK to choose it
automatically based on the "provider_priority". It also provides
compatibility with existing installation; APK will just choose the
default provider when upgrading. The selection can still be changed
after installation by installing another provider using "apk".
Note that at the end this is just a more convenient interface for the
already existing "extra packages" prompt. When using pmbootstrap in
automated scripts the providers (e.g. "postmarketos-root-doas") can be
simply selected through the existing "extra_packages" option.
At the moment, "provides" are only checked in the root package and not
in subpackages of APKBUILDs. Fix this by looking through the subpackages
as well.
At the moment we have to parse all APKBUILDs to find subpackages,
even if they are guessed easily shortly after. To speed this up,
let's guess first but verify the guess by only parsing that particular
APKBUILD. If the subpackage/provides is in there we seem to have found it.
iwd seems like a promising alternative to wpa_supplicant. It uses crypto
implementations from the kernel, so let's make kconfig check aware of
the options it needs.
Replace "args.arch_native" with the direct function call in order to
avoid passing "args" to all functions. This is a step to get rid of this
args-passed-to-all-functions pattern in pmbootstrap.
Replace "args.logfd" with "pmb.helpers.logging.logfd" in order to avoid
passing "args" to all functions that only use it to write to logfd. This
is the first step to get rid of this args-passed-to-all-functions
pattern in pmbootstrap.
With this option you can run
$ pmbootstrap kconfig migrate --arch <arch> linux-postmarketos-xxx-xxx
to perform safe kconfig upgrades between kernel releases.
"make oldconfig" will ask question for every new/renamed kconfig option,
so you have no chance to miss anything.
Before this commit, package folders were copied into the chroot one by
one in order to run apkbuild-lint on them. This logic is replaced by
mounting pmaports.git into the chroot and using a single apkbuild-lint
invocation to lint the supplied packages.
Both of these changes result in a performance improvement, especially
when linting multiple packages at once.
Before this change:
$ time ./pmbootstrap.py -q lint $(cd ../pmaports/cross; echo *) \
> /dev/null
real 0m5,261s
user 0m7,046s
sys 0m1,842s
Using the pmaports.git mount but calling apkbuild-lint in a loop:
$ time ./pmbootstrap.py -q lint $(cd ../pmaports/cross; echo *) \
> /dev/null
real 0m4,089s
user 0m6,418s
sys 0m1,219s
After this change:
$ time ./pmbootstrap.py -q lint $(cd ../pmaports/cross; echo *) \
> /dev/null
real 0m3,518s
user 0m5,968s
sys 0m0,959s
Additionally, running apkbuild-lint from the pmaports.git mount point
has the benefit that every printed violation contains a nice source
identifier à la "./cross/grub-x86/APKBUILD". This makes it possible to
differentiate between different packages even though only a single
apkbuild-lint invocation is used.
Relates: postmarketOS/pmaports#564
kernel is named /boot/vmlinuz now, looking at the filename will no
longer tell us what flavor it is. This now will look at
/usr/share/kernel, which has always contained the kernel 'flavor', and
since we currently only install 1 kernel these days, guarding this with
pmaports.cfg should be unnecessary. In the worst case (if there are
multiple kernel 'flavors' installed), it'll just grab the first one and
return it.
Allows user to choose one of the mirrors from
https://mirrors.postmarketos.org.
Example:
[1] Mirror 1 (Location 1)
[2] Mirror 2 (Location 2)
[3] Mirror 3 (Location 3)
Select a mirror [1]: 2
Co-Authored-By: Alexey Min <alexey.min@gmail.com>
The default completer suggests files from the file system which we
really don't want here.
This can be tested with the 'Manufacturer' field for new devices.
Setting it to a custom lambda instead of None disables the completion
instead of using the default completer.
This can be used for example to sideload packages to
pmbootstrap's QEMU which is running on the port 2222
by default, as follows:
pmbootstrap sideload --host localhost --port 2222 --user user <pkg>
This adds a `--port` parameter to sideload subcommand.
If not specified, port defaults to 22.
Do not attempt to install with a filesystem that is not supported by the
initramfs code in the checked out pmaports branch.
Previously we would have increased the pmaports.cfg version and require
that new version by pmbootstrap, however this will break compatibility
with release branches where we won't roll out this feature (v20.05).
Therefore don't change the version, but add a new
"supported_root_filesystems" key to pmaports.cfg, which defaults to
"ext4".
Related: https://postmarketos.org/pmaports.cfg
Translate the pmaports channels "stable" to "v20.05" and "stable-next"
to "v21.03", so these have the same channel name as the pmaports.git
branch name.
The original plan was to switch the "stable" channel from the "v20.05"
branch to the "v21.03" branch when the release is done. However, now
that we are close to that, I'm realizing that this would not be useful.
It would lead to conflicts in the dir with locally built packages
(default: ~/.local/var/pmbootstrap/packages/$CHANNEL). And it would make
it awkward to go back to a previous branch (we may name it old-stable
for the time being, but what after that, old-old-stable?).
Unmaintained devices are device packages that:
- Are known to be broken in some way without an active maintainer
who can investigate how to fix it, or
- Have not received any updates for a very long time, or
- Are discouraged from using because they are just intended for testing.
An example for this are ports using the downstream kernel for devices
which have a mainline port that is working quite well.
Unmaintained devices are still built by bpo (otherwise it would not make
sense to keep them), but they do not show up in "pmbootstrap init".
However, it is possible to manually select them by entering the name.
pmbootstrap will warn in that case.
Unmaintained packages should have a # Unmaintained: <reason> comment
in the APKBUILD, this comment is displayed in "pmbootstrap init"
so that the user knows why the device should not be used unless they
know what they are doing.
Support branches, so pmbootstrap won't fail if v20.05 is selected:
ERROR: You have an outdated version of the 'apk' package manager installed
(your version: 2.10.5-r1, expected at least: 2.12.1-r0).
Move the logic for this check to pmb.helpers.apk.check_outdated and
adjust the test.
This fixes the CI failure in test_crossdirect_rust, which uses the
stable channel. (My bad for not creating this patch earlier, while at
the same time explaining in the creating pmbootstrap release instructions,
that this minimum apk version should be adjusted.)
Hide progress bars if --details-to-stdout is used, which redirects all
output that would land in the pmbootstrap log to stdout. This caused the
progress bar output to get mixed with the apk output. A new progress bar
would get drawn whenever a new package was installed, without removing
the previous progress bar.
Many of pmbootstrap's actions require root rights. When after requesting
sudo access pmbootstrap takes longer than the sudo timeout interval to finish
execution, the password will have to be entered again on the next sudo
action.
This change adds an opt-in feature to run sudo -v in a background loop
in order to prevent having to enter the password more than once for a single
pmbootstrap run. The loop runs as a daemon timer which automatically gets
canceled when pmbootstrap exits.
Closes: #1677
Oliver Smith
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Alexey Min
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Luca Weiss
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Johannes Marbach
Clayton Craft
Maxim Karasev
Anri Dellal
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