ukify is part of systemd-experimental on OpenSUSE and not its own
package. Because the OpenSUSE systemd maintainers do not want to
introduce a python dependency for systemd-experimental, we have to
install python3-pefile manually to make sure ukify works properly.
By always cloning the latest branch commit, we can't bisect properly
using mkosi as when bisecting wildly different packaging sources will
be used compared to when the commit was merged. By using submodules, we
track individual commits which means when bisecting the same packaging
sources will be used.
We use git submodules as dependabot has support for automatically making
PRs to update git submodules. This commit also includes the necessary
dependabot configuration to enable this.
We make ubuntu/debian use the same submodule instead of adding the debian
packaging sources twice by introducing a new $PKG_SUBDIR environment variable
and using it instead of $DISTRIBUTION.
Instead of running meson install and hoping for the best, let's build
distribution packages from the downstream packaging specs. This gets
us the following:
- Vastly simplified mkosi scripts since we don't need a separate initrd
image anymore but can just reuse the default mkosi initrd.
- Almost everything can move to the base image as its not the basis
anymore for the initrd and as such we don't need to care about the
size anymore.
- The systemd packages that get pulled in as dependencies of other
packages get properly uninstalled and replaced with our packages that
we built instead of just installing on top of an existing systemd
installation with no guarantee that everything from that previous
installation was removed.
- Much better testing coverage as what we're testing is much closer
to what will actually be deployed in distributions.
- Immediate feedback if something we change breaks distribution packaging
- We get integration with the distribution for free as we'll automatically
use the proper directories and such instead of having to hack this
into a mkosi build script.
- ...
dnf5 does not download filelists metadata by default anymore as this
consists of a pretty big chunk of the repository metadata. Let's make
sure the filelists metadata doesn't have to be downloaded by dnf5 by
removing any usage of file provides from our package lists.
The integration tests use /etc/rc.d/init.d if it exists
or falls back to /etc/init.d,
while the mkosi.build.chroot script dereferenced /etc/init.d.
This produces inconsistent results, as sometimes an image can be made
that has systemd built to expect /etc/init.d but /etc/rc.d/init.d
also exists.
- Use mkosi.images/ instead of mkosi.presets/
- Use the .chroot suffix to run scripts in the image
- Use BuildSources= match for the kernel build
- Move 10-systemd.conf to mkosi.conf and rely on mkosi.local.conf
for local configuration
