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diff --git a/app-misc/calamares-config-redcore/files/modules/packages.conf b/app-misc/calamares-config-redcore/files/modules/packages.conf index 8d45706b..52ef498e 100644 --- a/app-misc/calamares-config-redcore/files/modules/packages.conf +++ b/app-misc/calamares-config-redcore/files/modules/packages.conf @@ -8,10 +8,38 @@ # - urpmi - Mandriva package manager # - apt - APT frontend for DEB and RPM # - pacman - Pacman -# - portage - Gentoo package manager -# - entropy - Sabayon package manager +# - portage - Gentoo package manager +# - entropy - Sabayon package manager +# - apk = Alpine Linux package manager +# - dummy - Dummy manager, only logs # backend: portage + +# +# Often package installation needs an internet connection. +# Since you may allow system installation without a connection +# and want to offer OPTIONAL package installation, it's +# possible to have no internet, yet have this packages module +# enabled in settings. +# +# You can skip the whole module when there is no internet +# by setting "skip_if_no_internet" to true. +# +# You can run a package-manager specific update procedure +# before installing packages (for instance, to update the +# list of packages and dependencies); this is done only if there +# is an internet connection. +# +# Set "update_db" to 'true' for refreshing the database on the +# target system. On target installations, which got installed by +# unsquashing, a full system update may be needed. Otherwise +# post-installing additional packages may result in conflicts. +# Therefore set also "update_system" to 'true'. +# +skip_if_no_internet: false +update_db: false +update_system: false + # # List of maps with package operations such as install or remove. # Distro developers can provide a list of packages to remove @@ -22,19 +50,121 @@ backend: portage # packages that need to be installed or removed can run before # this one. Distro developers may want to install locale packages # or remove drivers not needed on the installed system. -# This job will populate a list of dictionaries in the global -# storage called "packageOperations" and it is processed -# after the static list in the job configuration. +# Such a job would populate a list of dictionaries in the global +# storage called "packageOperations" and that list is processed +# after the static list in the job configuration (i.e. the list +# that is in this configuration file). +# +# Allowed package operations are: +# - *install*, *try_install*: will call the package manager to +# install one or more packages. The install target will +# abort the whole installation if package-installation +# fails, while try_install carries on. Packages may be +# listed as (localized) names, or as (localized) package-data. +# See below for the description of the format. +# - *localInstall*: this is used to call the package manager +# to install a package from a path-to-a-package. This is +# useful if you have a static package archive on the install media. +# The *pacman* package manager is the only one to specially support +# this operation (all others treat this the same as *install*). +# - *remove*, *try_remove*: will call the package manager to +# remove one or more packages. The remove target will +# abort the whole installation if package-removal fails, +# while try_remove carries on. Packages may be listed as +# (localized) names. +# One additional key is recognized, to help netinstall out: +# - *source*: ignored, does get logged +# Any other key is ignored, and logged as a warning. +# +# There are two formats for naming packages: as a name or as package-data, +# which is an object notation providing package-name, as well as pre- and +# post-install scripts. +# +# Here are both formats, for installing vi. The first one just names the +# package for vi (using the naming of the installed package manager), while +# the second contains three data-items; the pre-script is run before invoking +# the package manager, and the post-script runs once it is done. +# +# - install +# - vi +# - package: vi +# pre-script: touch /tmp/installing-vi +# post-script: rm -f /tmp/installing-vi +# +# The pre- and post-scripts are optional, but you cannot leave both out +# if you do use the *package* key: using "package: vi" with neither script +# option will trick Calamares into trying to install a package named +# "package: vi", which is unlikely to work. +# +# The pre- and post-scripts are **not** executed by a shell unless you +# explicitly invoke `/bin/sh` in them. The command-lines are passed +# to exec(), which does not understand shell syntax. In other words: +# +# pre-script: ls | wc -l +# +# Will fail, because `|` is passed as a command-line argument to ls, +# as are `wc`, and `-l`. No shell pipeline is set up, and ls is likely +# to complain. Invoke the shell explicitly: +# +# pre-script: /bin/sh -c \"ls | wc -l\" +# +# The above note on shell-expansion applies to versions up-to-and-including +# Calamares 3.2.12, but will change in future. +# +# Any package name may be localized; this is used to install localization +# packages for software based on the selected system locale. By including +# the string `LOCALE` in the package name, the following happens: +# +# - if the system locale is English (any variety), then the package is not +# installed at all, +# - otherwise `$LOCALE` or `${LOCALE}` is replaced by the 'lower-cased' BCP47 +# name of the 'language' part of the selected system locale (not the +# country/region/dialect part), e.g. selecting "nl_BE" will use "nl" +# here. +# +# Take care that just plain `LOCALE` will not be replaced, so `foo-LOCALE` will +# be left unchanged, while `foo-$LOCALE` will be changed. However, `foo-LOCALE` +# **will** be removed from the list of packages (i.e. not installed), if +# English is selected. If a non-English locale is selected, then `foo-LOCALE` +# will be installed, unchanged (no language-name-substitution occurs). +# +# The following installs localizations for vi, if they are relevant; if +# there is no localization, installation continues normally. +# +# - install +# - vi-$LOCALE +# - package: vi-${LOCALE} +# pre-script: touch /tmp/installing-vi +# post-script: rm -f /tmp/installing-vi +# +# When installing packages, Calamares will invoke the package manager +# with a list of package names if it can; package-data prevents this because +# of the scripts that need to run. In other words, this: +# +# - install: +# - vi +# - binutils +# - package: wget +# pre-script: touch /tmp/installing-wget +# +# This will invoke the package manager three times, once for each package, +# because not all of them are simple package names. You can speed up the +# process if you have only a few pre-scripts, by using multiple install targets: +# +# - install: +# - vi +# - binutils +# - install: +# - package: wget +# pre-script: touch /tmp/installing-wget +# +# This will call the package manager once with the package-names "vi" and +# "binutils", and then a second time for "wget". When installing large numbers +# of packages, this can lead to a considerable time savings. # operations: - remove: - - app-admin/calamares - - app-misc/calamares-config-redcore - - app-misc/calamares-runtime - - app-misc/redcore-live - - x11-themes/redcore-artwork-calamares -# - install: -# - pkg1 -# - pkg2 -# - localInstall: -# - /path/to/pkg1 + - app-admin/calamares + - app-misc/calamares-config-redcore + - app-misc/redcore-live + - x11-themes/redcore-artwork-calamares |