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Subject This week in KISS (#15)
From Dylan Araps <dylan@k1ss.org>
Date Tue, 16 Mar 2020 15:07:09 +0100
Hello.
It's been a weird week.
All stores (excluding Super Markets, Pharmacies, etc) have been closed here. People are keeping their distance and most people have decided to not leave the confines of their homes/yards (me included).
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The repositories are now ready for GCC 10. Each package has been tested and fixes have been made to any with issues. GCC 10 snapshots are available in the testing repository for those wanting to dive in early.
The perl dependency has been removed from libvpx. Perl was required solely for the generation of four header files. The package now simply includes these header files in generated form.
Firefox is now the only package with a dependency on perl. This is also only a build dependency meaning that there is no runtime dependency on perl anywhere in the system.
Our gzip implementation has been changed to pigz which is a parallel version of gzip. Expect speedups when working with large gzipped sources (depends on your core count of course).
The compression method used for KISS packages is now configurable via the KISS_COMPRESS environment variable. The current valid values are gz, xz and bz2.
This same code is shared by the source extraction function which has the upside of making our tar command usage more portable between tar implementations.
The final step for maximal tar portability is the removal of the '--strip-components' flag which limits our compatibility to busybox tar, libarchive tar (bsdtar) and GNU tar. This is tricky to solve, any suggestions welcome.
I added two new utilities which aid in the forking and linking of packages between repositories.
'kiss-fork <pkg>' will copy the package's repository directory into your current directory.
'kiss-link <file>' will link a package's repository file to the next repository in KISS_PATH.
Example:
-> ls
LICENSE.md README.md libsass mesa pp sassc st wine
-> kiss-fork libdrm
forked package to /home/goldie/dylan-repo/libdrm
-> cd libdrm
-> ls
build checksums depends sources version
-> kiss-link checksums
linked checksums to /home/goldie/projects/kiss-new/extra/./libdrm
-> kiss-link depends
linked depends to /home/goldie/projects/kiss-new/extra/./libdrm
-> kiss-link sources
linked sources to /home/goldie/projects/kiss-new/extra/./libdrm
-> kiss-link version
linked version to /home/goldie/projects/kiss-new/extra/./libdrm
-> lsl
build
checksums -> /home/goldie/projects/kiss-new/extra/./libdrm/checksums
depends -> /home/goldie/projects/kiss-new/extra/./libdrm/depends
sources -> /home/goldie/projects/kiss-new/extra/./libdrm/sources
version -> /home/goldie/projects/kiss-new/extra/./libdrm/version
The result is a fork of the libdrm package to the user's repository with every file (except for build) symlinked to the repository containing libdrm.
This allows the user to make changes to the build process of libdrm without having to maintain the entire package. The rest of the files are linked to the official libdrm so any version updates trickle down.
First some context. The KISS repositories (excluding community) have the requirement that no package require an internet connection during the build process.
What this means is that all network connections made by the package manager should only be to the static list of sources defined for the package.
This allows the sources list to be signed via GPG and further allows the package manager to verify the checksums of everything downloaded. This finally allows the sources to be cached.
In short, no package should download random stuff during builds. The package manager should handle this.
Enter cbindgen.
Some packages make this a very difficult thing to pull off. Most notably Rust and cbindgen. The latter being the package I will talk about in this post.
The cbindgen package requires a total of 35 crates. This results in 35 additional source downloads we need checksums for. I've come across packages requiring 200+ crates in my travels.
The process looks like this:
Yes. This is the only way to remove the network requirement from a build of anything using cargo.
If you'd like to see what the resulting package looks like, the source is available below (comments included!).
NOTE: The maintainer of the software _could_ distribute tarballs which include all of the crates via 'cargo vendor' though this isn't a common practice from what I've seen.
Source:
https://github.com/kisslinux/repo/tree/master/extra/cbindgen
I posted a while ago about my fork of iwd called 'eiwd'. What it is, is a fork of iwd with the dbus requirement removed. I decided to start again this week with the intention of handling things differently the second time around.
The new eiwd touches as little existing code as possible and is merely a series of '#ifdef HAVE_DBUS' throughout the codebase. I've also added the '--disable-dbus' configure flag.
It is now possible to use the eiwd sources as a drop-in replacement for iwd in distributions wanting to optionally enable dbus based on some kind of conditional (Gentoo USE flags as an example).
The daemon is fully functional and I will _eventually_ get around to writing a new client to work without dbus.
Source:
https://github.com/dylanaraps/eiwd
A KISS user has successfully run Bedrock Linux with KISS as a strata.
Bedrock's handling of the system boot/shutdown also uncovered two minor issues with KISS' init process which have now been fixed.
A big thank you to Bedrock Linux creator Paradigm for helping myself and the mentioned user to solve any issues.
A full album of images can be seen here:
kiss-games is a user repository for KISS which includes a long list of games and emulators. Any user can add the repository to gain access to its list of packages.
Source:
https://github.com/sdsddsd1/kiss-games
This repository brings Wayland to KISS. It includes Sway, wlroots and other required packages. Same as above, any user is able to enable this repository to start running Wayland.
Source:
https://github.com/sdsddsd1/mywayland
This is what I was hoping for when creating the repository system and the imposed limits to the size of the official repositories.
An "ecosystem" of repositories (by users!) which complement and extend the base system.
I can't wait to see where this will go.
KISS has attracted a lot of new users recently. As distributions are more or less centred around trust, I thought I'd end this week's post by taking a moment to introduce myself.
It's been a wild ride so far, full of its ups and downs. I've omitted quite a lot as I'll probably write something more in depth elsewhere (at a later stage). Some things should also probably be left unsaid.
This wasn't meant as a sob story or anything of that nature. Just a loose and rough timeline of events somewhat related to my Open Source work. I'm very happy and wouldn't have my life any other way.
I hope this gave you a clearer picture of who I am and more importantly, why I am.
Dylan
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Dylan Araps (55):
atk: Don't build tests
firefox: Fix error in dash
eiwd,openresolv: Move to extra
eiwd: bump to 1.5-1
curl: bump to 7.69.1
firefox-bin: Fix update issue
eiwd: bump to 1.5-2
eiwd: bump to 1.5-3
glib: bump to 2.64.1
eiwd: bump to 1.5-4
openesolv: Fix sysconfdir @konimex. Closes #168
kiss: bump to 1.7.8
gcc: latest snapshot
nodejs: bump to 13.11.0
cbindgen: Remove network requirement
kiss: bump to 1.7.9
gcc: bump to 9.3.0
rust: bump to 1.42.0
libdrm: GCC 10 fix
flex: Fix depends
flex: Make m4 make
binutils: Fix depends
binutils: Fix depends
bison: Fix depends
grub: Fix depends
cmake: Remove unneeded configure flags
glib: Don't build fuzzing stuff
libxkbcommon: Fix depends
xcb-util-wm: Fix depends
xcb-util-cursor: Fix depends
xf86-video-ati: GCC 10 fixes
xf86-video-amdgpu: GCC 10 fixes
xf86-video-intel: Fix LDFLAGS
xf86-video-nouveau: GCC 10 fixes
gcc: Fix depends
perl: bump to 5.30.2
baseinit: bump to 0.7.1
kiss: bump to 1.7.10
kiss: bump to 1.8.0
gzip: swap implementation to pigz
sudo: bump to 1.8.31p1
binutils: Fix depends
glib: Fix no libelf
firefox-bin: Fix naming issue. Closes #172
kiss: bump to 1.8.1
ccache: bump to 3.7.8
pfetch: bump to 0.5.0
ne: drop from community
eiwd,openresolv: Move to extra
gmp: new package at 6.2.0
mpfr: new package at 4.0.2
pfetch: bump to 0.6.0
icu: bump to 66.1
icu: Fix url. Closes #528
imagemagick: bump to 7.0.10-1
Adam Schaefers (1):
libcap: add perl dep, closes #544 (#546)
Anirudh Oppiliappan (1):
radare2: new package at 4.3.1 (#538)
Cem Keylan (2):
boost: don't link statically (#525)
libsoup: bump to 2.70.0 (#531)
Dilyn Corner (1):
extra-cmake-modules bumped to 5.68.0 (#519)
Eudald Gubert i Roldan (5):
btpd: new package at 0.16 (#520)
ledger: new package at 3.1.3 (#526)
font-awesome: new package at 5.12.1 (#530)
sc: new package at 7.16_1.1.2 (#535)
sc-im: new package at 0.7.0 (#536)
James Davies (1):
Fix qemu (#539)
Kiëd Llaentenn (1):
hexyl: v0.6.0 => v0.7.0 (#532)
Kris Heck (1):
jbig2dec: bump to 0.18 (#540)
M. Herdiansyah (2):
cryptsetup: update to 2.3.1 (#534)
lvm2: patch the bashism @ioraff (#533)
dzove855 (1):
dump xtrlock to 2.13 (#545)
