- This idea originates from very early in the project and was, at the
time, a very easy way to categorise things.
- Now, it doesn't really make much sense - it is fairly arbitary, often
occuring when there is a change in kernel, but not from builder-hex0
to fiwix, and sysb is in reality completely unnecessary.
- In short, the sys* stuff is a bit of a mess that makes the project
more difficult to understand.
- This puts everything down into one folder and has a manifest file that
is used to generate the build scripts on the fly rather than using
coded scripts.
- This is created in the "seed" stage.
stage0-posix -- (calls) --> seed -- (generates) --> main steps
Alongside this change there are a variety of other smaller fixups to the
general structure of the live-bootstrap rootfs.
- Creating a rootfs has become much simpler and is defined as code in
go.sh. The new structure, for an about-to-be booted system, is
/
-- /steps (direct copy of steps/)
-- /distfiles (direct copy of distfiles/)
-- all files from seed/*
-- all files from seed/stage0-posix/*
- There is no longer such a thing as /usr/include/musl, this didn't
really make any sense, as musl is the final libc used. Rather, to
separate musl and mes, we have /usr/include/mes, which is much easier
to work with.
- This also makes mes easier to blow away later.
- A few things that weren't properly in packages have been changed;
checksum-transcriber, simple-patch, kexec-fiwix have all been given
fully qualified package names.
- Highly breaking change, scripts now exist in their package directory
but NOT WITH THE packagename.sh. Rather, they use pass1.sh, pass2.sh,
etc. This avoids manual definition of passes.
- Ditto with patches; default directory is patches, but then any patch
series specific to a pass are named patches-passX.
The gap between the chroot and non-chroot bootstrap modes started in,
7ecad37 because BuildStream's sandbox was missing some device nodes.
With the latest version of buildbox-run-bubblewrap, a few of the
missing devices were made available to BuildStream's sandbox and
there is no longer a need to keep this gap. In fact, compatibilty
with newer BuildStream versions now requires these devices to be
present.
This change also partially reverts d0a5221, which had to remove
/dev/ptmx as a consequence of the aforementioned gap.
A tiny bootloader bootstrap has been added to compile the builder-hex0 kernel from hex0 source.
The boot compiler is builder-hex0-x86-stage1.hex0 and builder-hex0-x86-stage1.bin.
The builder-hex0 kernel is now named builder-hex0-x86-stage2.hex0.
The inclusion of a binary seed resolves the problem with the previous strategy which used an
architecture-specific hex0 compiler.
If sysb detects a full disk (i.e. DISK=sda) it now partitions the disk unconditionally because
previously fdisk was reporting existing but empty partitions which resulted in no
parititions being created.
e2fsprogs is now built with --disable-tls because musl was built on Fiwix without full threading
support and mkfs.ext4 was crashing without disabling thread local storage.
kexec-linux writes the linux kernel and initramfs to a RAM drive on Fiwix which ensure
a pre-allocated contiguous memory block. The following is written to the ram drive:
a 32-bit number which is the size of the kernel in bytes, a 32-bit number which is the size
of the initramfs in bytes, followed by the Linux kernel image, followed by the initramfs.
kexec-fiwix invokes a sync syscall to ensure all writes are flushed to
the ram drive and then initiates the kexec by shutting down Fiwix with a reboot syscall.
Fiwix knows whether and how to perform the kexec based on kernel parameters passed to it.
- Rather than using part-by-part build of Binutils, use autogen and full
./configure, make build.
- Enable some other modern features, including the gold linker, threaded
linking and 64-bit linking.
- This allows GCC 12 to build unhindered by binutils.
The motivations for this are complicated, but on musl systems, musl
will use its own libssp implementation, so GCC's libssp is not required.
Not to mention that GCC's libssp implementation is questionable at best.
This is the approach taken by the two major musl distributions - Alpine
Linux and Void Linux.
This is achieved by transplanting 3.0.7's psyntax-pp.scm into 3.0.9
which works flawlessly.
This is required for parallelism, since <3.0.8 is irreproducible when
-jN is used.
The source tarball is provided as part of sysa distfiles and copied to sysc, which resolves the issue of finding a reliable plain HTTP mirror for curl.
Splitted from https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/pull/253.
* get_files produces list without extra ./ between extra subdirectories.
* Emtry directories are also included.
* Simplified src_pkg function.
* Use local variables instead of unsetting global variables in src_apply.
