The sideload command runs the supplied names through the pmbootstrap
buildsystem to make sure they're up-to-date, then uses scp from the host
to copy the built apks to /tmp on the phone and installs them through
ssh.
If the --install-key option is set then it will also copy over the apk
key that's used for signing the packages built by pmbootstrap in case
the postmarketOS install on the device isn't build by the same machine
as you're sideloading from.
Let tail attempt to open the file again, if it becomes inaccessible.
This is useful, when writing a reproducer that deletes pmbootstrap's
log.txt while at the same time running 'pmbootstrap log'.
(027724) [17:57:34] Done
tail: '/home/user/.local/var/pmbootstrap/log.txt' has become inaccessible: No such file or directory
tail: '/home/user/.local/var/pmbootstrap/log.txt' has appeared; following new file
(003493) [17:57:35] % cd /home/user/.local/var/pmbootstrap/cache_git/pmaports; git remote -v
This is likely to fail with the new default cryptsetup cipher of
aes-xts-plain64, as many downstream kernels used in recovery OS (like
TWRP) do not have CRYPTO_XTS set.
Add initial support for the on-device installer in pmbootstrap. Let
pmbootstrap create a regular split image, then prepare a new installer
rootfs and copy the previously generated rootfs image into the installer
rootfs. Put the installer rootfs into a new image, with reserved space.
There is more to do from here, such as disabling the generation of the
user account when using --ondev. But this requires support in
postmarketos-ondev first, so let's build that iteratively.
Related: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/On-device_installer
Related: https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/postmarketos-ondev/-/issues
Prepare for a future patch, that adds reserved space in MiB, by changing
size_boot and size_root from bytes to MB everywhere. This is what we need
most of the time and allows to drop some /1024**2 statements.
Previously these two commands would both print the current value:
pmbootstrap config extra_packages
pmbootstrap config extra_packages ''
With this change, the second command will instead set the given config
value to the empty string.
The kconfig check searches the aport with the "linux-" prefix to the
package name passed as argument. This is not working with the full
package name like linux-device-name because it searches a
linux-linux-device-name and fails.
In the future, device ports will be located in a subdirectory
below device/... (e.g. device/testing/device-...).
Replace all occurrences of device/* with a glob that checks the
subdirectories instead.
Note: To ensure that this always works properly we should also add some
checks that all devices are indeed located under one of the supported
subdirectories (i.e. testing/community/main).
Change the glob for pmaports to <aports>/**/APKBUILD.
This allows using subdirectories for organization outside of device/
as well.
Add new "pmbootstrap status" command, which does a quick health check
for the work dir. As first health check, verify that the chroots are not
too old. Replace the reminder text at the end of "pmbootstrap init" to
tell users to run "pmbootstrap status" instead of "pmbootstrap zap" once
a day before working with pmbootstrap.
Related: #1829
While at it, also remove unnecessary "#!/usr/bin/env python3" in files
that only get imported, and adjust other empty/comment lines in the
beginnings of the files for consistency.
This makes files easier to read, and makes the pmbootstrap codebase more
consistent with the build.postmarketos.org codebase.
The gist of this action is upgrading the specified aport to the latest
version. There are implementations for both stable packages (which check
via the release-monitoring.org API for new versions) and git packages
(which check the GitLab/GitHub API for new commits on the main branch).
There's also the possibility to pass --all, --all-stable & --all-git to
the action which either loops through all packages, or just stable or
git packages and upgrades them.
The --dry argument is also respected.
Note, that the implementation does update the variables pkgver, pkgrel
and _commit but it doesn't update the checksums because that would slow
down the process a lot, and is potentially undesirable.
asus-me176c has a Fastboot interface that can be used for flashing,
but in postmarketOS we do not use Android boot images for it.
This is because is it not very practical - the boot partition is
quite small and there is a (custom) EFI bootloader that can boot
directly from any other FAT32 partition.
At the moment the installation process is manual:
1. pmbootstrap install --split to have separated boot (FAT32)
and rootfs images
2. pmbootstrap export
3. Flash boot and rootfs images manually using Fastboot
The "fastboot-bootpart" flasher implements that process in a more
convenient way. When a device uses the "fastboot-bootpart" flasher:
- We generate --split images on "pmbootstrap install" by default.
(This can be disabled using --no-split instead.)
- pmbootstrap flasher flash_kernel flashes the raw boot partition
(not an Android boot image) using Fastboot, just like the rootfs.
There are some limitations that could be improved in the future:
- "fastboot-bootpart" is not offered in the device wizard.
I think it is special enough that no-one will be starting with it,
and the difference to normal "fastboot" might be confusing.
- Support "pmbootstrap flasher boot". asus-me176c does not support
"fastboot boot" properly, but theoretically we could still generate
Android boot images to use when booting an image directly.
- At the moment the boot partition image is not regenerated when
using "pmbootstrap flasher flash_kernel" (unlike when using Android
boot images). "pmbootstrap install" needs to be run manually first.
At the moment, pmbootstrap updates the kernel and the initfs whenever
using the flasher or export. This is useful, but sometimes you just want
to boot exactly the same kernel several times. In that case, having to wait
several seconds for the (redundant) update to complete is quite annoying.
Add a --no-install option that allows skipping the kernel/initfs update.
Add a shortcut for "git pull --ff-only" in all repositories cloned by
pmbootstrap (currently pmaports and aports_upstream, new pmdevices
repository coming soon).
'pmbootstrap pull' will only update the repositories, if:
* they are on an officially supported branch (e.g. master)
* the history is not conflicting (fast-forward is possible)
* the git workdirs are clean
Otherwise it shows the user a descriptive message about what to do. The
list of supported branches is only "master" right now, and will be
extended in later commits, so we can have a stable branch for pmaports
based on Alpine's releases. More about that in the project direction
2020 issue.
Closes: #1858
Rust packaging is new and still a bit weird in Alpine and postmarketOS.
As of writing, we only have one package (squeekboard), and use cargo to
download the source of all dependencies at build time (several git
repositories!) and compile it. Usually, this is a no-go, but at least
until this is resolved properly, let's cache the downloads as suggested
in: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/guide/cargo-home.html
Related: #1861
This allows for example for me to call the kconfig check function on the
.config file in my Linux tree: $ pmbootstrap kconfig check --file
.config and it reports me which kconfig options I need to enable.
Download all sources and verify their checksums.
This will be used in pmaports.git CI, if ci:skip-build is set in the
commit message (currently it just skips the build, and we don't test if
the source checksums are valid or not).
Ignore APKBUILDs that have "!pmb:kconfigcheck" in their options by
default in "pmbootstrap kconfig check", but print a note that they have
been skipped. Check all kernels with "pmbootstrap kconfig check -f".
This is necessary, because the Librem 5 devboard kernel's config does
not have CONFIG_DM_CRYPT enabled in their config, and we check for
that. As the device is still under heavy development, we will make our
lives easier by just using the upstream kernel config without any
changes and ignoring it in our check by default.
Provides a quick way to incrementally compile a kernel and push it to
device.
Example usage.
Compile the kernel:
$ cd /src/linux/
$ source /src/pmbootstrap/helpers/envkernel.sh
$ make tegra_postmarketos_defconfig
$ make -jX
Package kernel and flash to device:
$ pmbootstrap build --envkernel linux-samsung-p4wifi
$ pmbootstrap flasher flash_kernel
Modify kernel source then incremental compile, package, and flash:
$ make -jX
$ pmbootstrap build --envkernel linux-samsung-p4wifi
$ pmbootstrap flasher flash_kernel
Add a new action that lists all aports, for which no binary packages
exist. Only list packages that can be built for the relevant arch
(specified with --arch). This works recursively: when a package can be
built for a certain arch, but one of its dependencies
(or their depends) can not be built for that arch, then don't list it.
This action will be used for the new sr.ht based build infrastructure,
to figure out which packages need to be built ahead of time (so we can
trigger each of them as single build job). Determining the order of the
packages to be built is not determined with pmbootstrap, the serverside
code of build.postmarketos.org takes care of that.
For testing purposes, a single package can also be specified and the
action will list if it can be built for that arch with its
dependencies, and what needs to be built exactly.
Add pmb/helpers/package.py to hold functions that work on both pmaports
and (binary package) repos - in contrary to the existing
pmb/helpers/pmaports.py (see previous commit) and pmb/helpers/repo.py,
which only work with one of those.
Refactoring:
* pmb/helpers/pmaports.py: add a get_list() function, which lists all
aports and use it instead of writing the same glob loop over and over
* add pmb.helpers.pmaports.get(), which finds an APKBUILD and parses it
in one step.
* rename pmb.build._package.check_arch to ...check_arch_abort to
distinguish it from the other check_arch function
Move find_aport() and find_aport_guess_main() from pmb/build/other.py
to the new file pmb/helpers/pmaports.py.
Finding aports is not only needed when building packages, hence it
makes sense to move it out of pmb.build. The pmb/helpers/pmaports.py
file will have more pmaports related functions in a follow up commit.
* change "pmbootstrap kconfig_check" to "pmbootstrap kconfig check"
* change "pmbootstrap menuconfig" to "pmbootstrap kconfig edit [-x|-g]"
(with legacy alias, because the first syntax was referenced to a lot)
* enable X11 interfaces: -x: xconfig, -g: gconfig
* new function to copy the xauthority file:
pmb.chroot.other.copy_xauthority()
* remove menufconfig() function from the kernel template and all kernel
aports ([skip ci] because it would rebuild all kernels and run out of
time). Alpine has dropped this as well, and it wouldn't work with the
new code anyway.
Changes:
* `helpers/envkernel.sh`:
* installs everything needed for kernel compilation in the native
chroot
* mounts the kernel source to `/mnt/linux` inside the chroot
* creates `/mnt/linux/.output` and chowns it to the `pmos` user, that
folder will be used for the kernel build output
* sets up aliases for `make`, `pmbootstrap`, `pmbroot`, `kernelroot`
* new action `pmbootstrap work_migrate`: does the interactive work
folder migration if necessary, otherwise it doesn't output anything
* when calling this first, we can safely use all other commands
non-interactively without showing the output
Benefits:
* Fast setup (especially for people who are new to kernel
compilation
* No need to figure out distribution specific package names
(cross compilers!)
* No need to do a test build just to verify that the right
packages are installed
* Less error prone
* The right dependencies are always installed
* `ARCH` and `CROSS_COMPILE` variables always get set automatically
and based on `deviceinfo_arch`
* If the build environment is broken for some reason, just zap and
start over
* Easy to reproduce problems
Notes:
* `make menuconfig` works as well
* Sourcing was tested with `zsh`, `bash` and `fish`, it should be easy to
extend for other shells
* As discussed in IRC/matrix, we're removing `linux-postmarketos-lts`
for now. The kernel isn't used right now, and we save lots of
maintenance effort with not updating it every week or so.
* new config option `"kernel"` with possible values:
`"downstream", "mainline", "stable"` (downstream is always
`linux-$devicename`)
* ask for the kernel during `pmbootstrap init` if the device package
has kernel subpackages and install it in `_install.py`
* postmarketos-mkinitfs: display note instead of exit with error when
the `deviceinfo_dtb` file is missing (because we expect it to be
missing for downstream kernels)
* device-sony-amami:
* add kernel subpackages for downstream, mainline
* set `deviceinfo_dtb`
* device-qemu-amd64: add kernel subpackages for stable, lts, mainline
* test cases and test data for new functions
* test case that checks all aports for right usage of the feature:
* don't mix specifying kernels in depends *and* subpackages
* 1 kernel in depends is maximum
* kernel subpackages must have a valid name
* Test if devices packages reference at least one kernel
* Remove `_build_device_depends_note()` which informs the user that
`--ignore-depends` can be used with device packages to avoid building
the kernel. The idea was to make the transition easier after a change
we did months ago, and now the kernel doesn't always get built before
building the device package so it's not relevant anymore.
* pmb/chroot/other.py:
* Add autoinstall=True to kernel_flavors_installed(). When the flag
is set, the function makes sure that at least one kernel for the
device is installed.
* Remove kernel_flavor_autodetect() function, wherever it was used,
it has been replaced with kernel_flavors_installed()[0].
* pmb.helpers.frontend.py: remove code to install at least one kernel,
kernel_flavors_installed() takes care of that now.
* Change `pmbootstrap flasher flash_system` command to
`pmbootstrap flasher flash_rootfs`
* The old command still works, but all references have been changed to
the new command
* Remove obsolete `pmbootstrap flasher export` (that was changed to
`pmbootstrap export` a few months ago)
* Update `README.md` and ZSH auto completion
* Change the description of the generated rootfs image (not talking
about a system image anymore, mention that it has subpartitions)
* Better description of `pmbootstrap flasher flash_rootfs --partition`
* pmbootstrap newapkbuild: Properly parse arguments
The `pmbootstrap newapkbuild` action wraps Alpine's `newapkbuild`. We
used to directly pass all arguments to `newapkbuild` without verifying
in Python whether they make sense or not. However, as `newpakbuild`
doesn't do strict sanity checks on the arguments, it is easy to end up
with unexpected behavior when using the command for the first time.
For example, `newapkbuild` allows either specifying a PKGNAME or SRCURL
as last parameter, and also allows setting a PKGNAME with the `-n`
parameter. It only makes sense to use that option when passing a
SRCURL.
With this commit, we duplicate the optins that should be passed through
to `newapkbuild` and use argparse to fully sanitize the options and
display a help page (`pmbootstrap newapkbuild -h`) that is consistent
with the other help pages.
Details:
* The `-f` (force) flag does not get passed through anymore. Instead we
use it in Python to skip asking if an existing aport should be
overwritten (the aports are outside of the chroot, so `newapkbuild`
can't handle it in a way that makes sense for pmbootstrap).
* Output of `newapkbuild` gets redirected to the log file now, as we
don't need it to display a help page.
* Don't verify the pkgver while creating the new APKBUILD. When passing
a SRCURL, the pkgver gets extracted from the end of the URL and may
not have a valid format yet (but we want the APKBUILD anyway).
* Stored options passed through in `pmb/config/__init__.py` and use it
in both `pmb/parse/arguments.py` and `pmb/helpers/frontend.py`.
* Only allow `-n` with SRCURL
* The postmarketOS aports folder gets specified with `--folder` now.
That way the generated help page is much closer to the original one
from `newapkbuild`. The default is `main`.
* Made the package type flags (CMake, autotools, ...) exclusive so only
one of them can be specified
In order to get cross-compilers, we generate a few aports (e.g.
binutils-armhf, gcc-armhf) automatically from Alpine's aports.
pmbootstrap was already able to perform a git checkout of Alpine's
aports repository. But it needed to be manually updated. Otherwise
the `pmbootstrap aportgen` command could actually downgrade the aport
instead of updating it to the current version.
After thinking about adding a dedicated pmbootstrap command for
updating git repositories, I thought it would be better to not open
that can of worms (pmbootstrap as general git wrapper? no thanks).
The solution implemented here compares the upstream aport version of
the git checkout of a certain package (e.g. gcc for gcc-armhf) with the
version in Alpine's binary package APKINDEX. When the aport version is
lower than the binary package version, it shows the user how to update
the git repository with just one command:
pmbootstrap chroot --add=git --user -- \
git -C /mnt/pmbootstrap-git/aports_upstream pull
Changes:
* `pmb.aportgen.core.get_upstream_aport()`: new function, that returns
the absolute path to the upstream aport on disk, after checking the
version of the aport against the binary package.
* Use that new function in pmb.aportgen.gcc and pmb.aportgen.binutils
* New function `pmb.helpers.repo.alpine_apkindex_path()`: updates the
APKINDEX if necessary and returns the absolute path to the APKINDEX.
This code was basically present already, but not as function, so now
we have a bit less overhead there.
* `pmbootstrap chroot`: new `--user` argument
* `pmb.parse.apkbuild`: make pkgname check optional, as it fails with
the official gcc APKBUILD before we modify it (the current APKBUILD
parser is not meant to be perfect, as this would require a full shell
parsing implementation).
* Extended `test_aportgen.py` and enabled it by default in
`testcases_fast.sh`. Previously it was disabled due to traffic
concerns (cloning the aports repo, but then again we do a full KDE
plasma mobile installation in Travis now, so that shouldn't matter
too much).
* `testcases_fast.sh`: With "test_aport_in_sync_with_git" removed
from the disabled-by-default list (left over from timestamp based
rebuilds), there were no more test cases disabled by default. I've
changed it, so now the qemu_running_processes test case is disabled,
and added an `--all` parameter to the script to disable no test
cases. Travis runs with the `--all` parameter while it's useful to
do a quick local test without `--all` in roughly 2 minutes instead of
10.
* `aports/cross/binutils-*`: Fix `_mirror` variable to point to current
default Alpine mirror (so the aportgen testcase runs through).
`-m` is for deleting local compiled packages, for which there is no
aport with the same version. Prior to this change, this only worked
for packages where no aport exists, or for packages that are newer
than the aports.
That is, because we used the usual APKINDEX parsing logic, which
ignores old packages in the APKINDEX and only returns the one with the
highest version (that makes sense during dependency resolution).
Changes:
* New `pmb.parse.apkindex.parse_blocks()` function that returns a raw
list of blocks, instead of the dict with removed duplicates with
lower version you get from the usual `.parse()` function.
* Renamed each of the zap flags and their descriptions to make clear
what they are doing now.
```
short long (old) long (new)
-p --packages --pkgs-local
-m --mismatch-bins --pkgs-local-mismatch
-o, --old-bins --pkgs-online-mismatch
```
### Only download APKINDEX for relevant architectures
We're downloading the APKINDEX files for all architectures supported by
postmarketOS currently (x86, x86_64, armhf, aarch64). Most of the time,
we only need it for the native and device arch, so this PR reduces the
downloaded files to what is really necessary.
### Intuitive pmbootstrap update logic
* pmb.helpers.repo.update():
* Default is updating all arches where the APKBUILD files exist
* Add existing_only parameter
* Return True when files have been downloaded
* Properly print which arches will be updated
* Print update reason only in verbose log
* Add and improve comments
* pmb.parse.arguments(), update action:
* Add --non-existing parameter
* Default for --arch is None (instead of arch.native)
* pmb.helpers.frontend.update():
* Inform about --non-existing if no APKBUILDs have been updated
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