The QEMU 'tablet' input device reports absolute positions instead
of relative mouse pointer movements. This can be used to automatically
grab/release the mouse pointer when entering/leaving the QEMU window,
instead of having to release it with CTRL + ALT + G manually.
This is quite convenient and should be the default option normally,
but at least on my PC the mouse pointer is reported with some vertical
offset for some reason (you can't reach the top and it extends below
the QEMU window...). Let's add it as an optional --tablet option for now.
When using pmbootstrap, you usually select the device you want to work
on using 'pmbootstrap init', generate the rootfs and can then run more
commands in the context of the device.
The same needs to be done before using QEMU (to generate the rootfs).
But for some reason 'pmbootstrap qemu' requires setting the --arch
parameter when running QEMU for a foreign architecture, even when the
device is still selected in pmbootstrap.
Even more confusing is that setting "--arch arm" always selects
device-qemu-vexpress, but this is not immediately clear from the name.
Let's make this a lot more intuitive by making sure there is a QEMU
device selected when running 'pmbootstrap qemu'. We can then use the
device information to infer the architecture automatically.
At the moment, the --display argument is a bit complicated to use.
A common use would be to switch between the UIs (sdl, gtk, none)
or to enable the software rasterizer. Split the two use cases
to separate arguments to make it more intuitive.
The SPICE UI option tends to be broken (see #1836), and even when it is
working, it is not working particularly well. QXL requires special handling
in our QEMU packages, when now virtio-gpu (virgl) is working quite well overall.
Apparently it is possible to use virgl with SPICE; but only when using
a Unix socket instead of a TCP port. That again is a bit complicated
because we run QEMU outside the chroot and the SPICE client within.
Overall it does no longer seem to be worth the effort.
The default QEMU UI is working just fine (for the purposes of testing
postmarketOS at least).
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.
Create add_packages_add() function, so we don't need to write the three
lines for adding the "packages" argument to an action with proper
autocompletion.
Remove in favor of similar, but more visible "--no-install" option for
"pmbootstrap flasher" and "pmbootstrap export".
It seems that the option wasn't really used by anybody, so let's just
remove it without a deprication period. If dear reader thinks otherwise
after this is merged, and is not happy with "--no-install", please state
your reasoning in a new issue, so we can discuss it.
Related: !1863
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.
At the moment, sparse images are generated if the device sets
deviceinfo_flash_sparse="true". But for testing purposes it can be
useful to specifically enable or disable the default behavior.
Add a --sparse and --no-sparse option that enables or disables
sparse image generation.
At the moment we assume that everyone running QEMU is either using
ALSA, or has the ALSA PulseAudio plugin configured on the host system.
(Since we run QEMU outside of the chroot at the moment, configuration
files are read from the host system instead of the chroot...)
Other distributions have much wider support for PulseAudio,
so not everyone will actually have the ALSA PulseAudio plugin configured.
In that case, it is better to use QEMU's PulseAudio backend since that
does not require any configuration. It also lets us drop the alsa-lib
fork, since that was only needed for loading the ALSA PulseAudio plugin.
In general, it seems difficult to detect which audio backend the user
wants to run (if any). Selecting the wrong one results in ugly warnings
when running QEMU. So let's not assume any by default, and add a
--audio option instead which accepts one of QEMU's audio backends
(alsa, pa or sdl).
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
Linking big libraries may take more than five minutes, so change the
default timeout to fifteen minutes to save users from frustration.
This is the same value that I'm using to build binary packages for the
repository.
Pushing directly to master without making a merge request, because this
is a trivial change.
This MR add the --fork-alpine argument to the pmboostrap aportgen
command, which downloads the APKBUILD and related files and copies them
into the pmaports/temp folder.
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).
Launch native cross compilers inside foreign chroot. Enable by default,
but allow disabling with --no-crossdirect for now. This option and the
distcc-sshd related code will be removed in the future.
Aborts the build if any dependencies would have to be build first. This
is useful for build.postmarketos.org, because we want to build exactly
one package in one build job. If dependencies would need to be built, we
made a mistake earlier, and not aborting the build makes it harder to
find that orginal mistake.
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
Test with flake8: *.py
./test/check_checksums.py:13:13: E117 over-indented
./pmb/config/init.py:97:8: F632 use ==/!= to compare str, bytes, and int literals
./pmb/parse/arguments.py:229:13: E117 over-indented
Allow changing the kernel partition for fastboot and heimdall in
deviceinfo and on the fly while doing "pmbootstrap flasher
flash_kernel". Also allow changing the partition for
"... flash_rootfs" with fastboot (this was only possible with
heimdall so far).
Introduce two new deviceinfo variables:
* flash_fastboot_partition_kernel
* flash_fastboot_partition_system
This is useful for devices with dual partitioning that have boot_a
and boot_b.
Properly replace ~ with $HOME in all paths. Fix tab completion when
passing a path starting with ~ to pmaports:
$ pmbootstrap --aports ~/src/pmaports/ build linux-<TAB>
Make tab completion work again for packages, if the default pmaports
dir is used. In the last "args" code refactor, the variable replacing
code was moved into its own function. We did not call it in the
packagecompleter() yet, so it could not replace the $WORK variable in
the default pmaports path.
Show all config keys that can be queried and set in the
'pmbootstrap config -h' output and make tab completion work for the
key names.
I've set "metavar" and placed the variables in the helpstring. That
way, argparse will not generate a huge "positional arguments" string
that blows up the layout of the help output:
[{ccache_size,device,extra_packages,hostname,jobs,kernel,keymap,...
Multiple -mp arguments can be used to list multiple mirrors:
$ pmbootstrap -mp=first -mp=second chroot -- cat /etc/apk/repositories
This is needed for the new build infrastructure, so we can have a WIP
repository to which we push packages until all of them are up to date,
and then publish all of them at once. Software like KDE/Plasma Mobile,
which expect a lot of packages to be updated from one version to
another will not end up with a half-way through upgrade that way.
-m is the Alpine mirror, -mp is the postmarketOS mirror. Use "URL" as
metavar and add help text that explains how to disable the postmarketOS
mirror (so all pmaports get built locally).
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
With this patch, "pmbootstrap flasher" will fail with "the following
arguments are required: action_flasher". Without it, it just prints
"Done" and quits.
Overview:
Since Alpine updated to distcc 3.3 last week, pmbootstrap wasn't able to use
distcc for cross compilation anymore. It always falled back to running the
compiler in QEMU (which works, but is a lot slower). The reason for that is,
that distcc requires all compilers that are being used in a whitelist now.
This partially fixes CVE-2004-2687 in distccd, which allowed trivial remote
code execution by any process connecting to the distccd server. We only run
distccd on localhost, but still this can be used for privilege escalation of
sandboxed processes running on the host system (not part of pmbootstrap
chroots).
Because the CVE is only partially fixed (see the comment in
`pmb/chroot/distccd.py` for details), we make sure that only the building
chroots can talk to the distcc server by running distcc over ssh.
Details:
* Completely refactored `pmb/chroot/distccd.py` to run distcc over ssh
* Store the running distcc server's arguments as JSON now, not as INI
* Make debugging distcc issues easy:
* Set DISTCC_BACKOFF_PERIOD=0, so the distcc client will not ignore the
server after errors happened (this masks the original error!)
* New pmbootstrap parameters:
* `--distcc-nofallback`: avoids falling back to compiling with QEMU and not
throwing an error
* `--ccache-disable`: avoid ccache (when the compiler output is cached,
distcc does not get used)
* `--verbose` prints verbose output of the distcc too
* New test case, that uses the new pmbootstrap parameters to force
compilation through distcc, and shows the output of distcc and distccd in
verbose mode on error (as well as the log of sshd)
Follow-up to !1373, where `pmbootstrap flasher flash_system` was
replaced with `pmbootstrap flasher flash_rootfs`. We still had used
terms like "system partition" in a lot of places.
This commit replaces it everywhere, so it's clear that we're talking
about the pmOS rootfs (which may or may not be installed to Android's
system partition).
Minecrell
Oliver Smith
Luca Weiss
Danct12
Drew DeVault
Daniele Debernardi
Idan Horo
Oliver Smith
Zhuowei Zhang
Robert Yang
Grant Miller
Ion Agorria