artools 0.12.6-1 - discussion

19 March 2019, 04:55:38

To be clear, buildiso works just fine. There are only some iregularities that may need a simple ironing out and maybe a feature request or three.

- Two switches have changed or maybe are somewhat inaccurate:

1)

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buildiso -h

/snip/

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-x Build images only

This seems inaccurate; The -x switch only builds boot images. It doesn't build the .sfs files or a bootable image

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artools/buildiso/$profile/iso/
        boot  efi  efi.img

Maybe instead the help for -x could read:

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-x Build boot images only

The .sfs images are never built if -x switch called or until a second run with -zc switches added

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buildiso -p $profile -zc

2)
-q switch was at one time very verbose (profile mine):

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 buildiso -p plasma -vq
==> ARTOOLS
  -> VERSION: 0.10
  -> config: ~/.config/artools/artools.conf
==> OPTIONS:
  -> PROFILE: plasma
  -> INITSYS: openrc
  -> REPOSITORY: buildiso
==> ARGS:
  -> clean_first: true
  -> images_only: false
  -> iso_only: false
  -> persist: false
==> ISO SETTINGS:
  -> ISO_VERSION: 20181103
==> BUILD:
  -> iso_file: artix-plasma-openrc-20181103-x86_64.iso
  -> AUTOLOGIN: true
  -> HOST_NAME: acer14
  -> USER_NAME: artix
  -> PASSWORD: artix
  -> ADDGROUPS: video,power,storage,optical,network,lp,scanner,wheel,users,log
  -> SERVICES_LIVE: artix-live pacman-init
  -> SERVICES: acpid bluetooth cronie cupsd syslog-ng NetworkManager xdm

Artools 0.12.6-1 on the other hand seems very tight lipped ( and -v switch is gone

)

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]$ buildiso -p base -xlq
==> OPTIONS:
  -> PROFILE: base
  -> INITSYS: openrc
==> ISO SETTINGS:
  -> ISO_VERSION: 20190318-2004
==> BUILD:
  -> iso_file: 
  -> AUTOLOGIN: 
  -> HOST_NAME: 
  -> USER_NAME: 
  -> PASSWORD: 
  -> ADDGROUPS: 
  -> SERVICES_LIVE: 
  -> SERVICES:

Note that this does not seem to have any effect on the final output - buildiso still works and respects your options.

3) Feature request:- New switch!
- s (for .sfs) switch to delete and rebuild live, desktop or root.sfs images as per your need.

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-sD (desktopfs.sfs)
-sL ( livefs.sfs)
-sR (rootfs.sfs)

It seems unclear that if you want to rebuild a second time after -zc switches you must delete .sfs files (and sums) yourself.

In the end - there are no problems to report - only some suggested changes or additions. Maybe even a useful discussion comes about?

Re: artools 0.12.6-1 - discussion

Reply #1 – 21 March 2019, 19:14:05

Thanks for your extensive testing and reporting. You should upload plasma profile somewhere, other users might find it useful.

Re: artools 0.12.6-1 - discussion

Reply #2 – 11 April 2019, 00:42:36

As of artools 12.7-3 the -q switch is again back to verbose. This is good!

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$ buildiso -p base -q
==> OPTIONS:
  -> PROFILE: base
  -> INITSYS: openrc
==> ISO SETTINGS:
  -> ISO_VERSION: 20190410-1537
==> BUILD:
  -> iso_file: artix-base-openrc-20190410-1537-x86_64.iso
  -> AUTOLOGIN: false
  -> HOST_NAME: artix
  -> USER_NAME: artix
  -> PASSWORD: artix
  -> ADDGROUPS: video,power,optical,network,lp,scanner,wheel,users,log
  -> SERVICES_LIVE: artix-live pacman-init
  -> SERVICES: acpid bluetooth cronie cupsd syslog-ng NetworkManager