Package mkimage-profiles: Information

  • Default inline alert: Version in the repository: 1.4.29-alt1

Source package: mkimage-profiles
Version: 1.4.10-alt1
Build time:  May 13, 2021, 04:12 AM in the task #271629
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License: GPLv2+
Summary: ALT based distribution metaprofile
Description: 
mkimage-profiles is a collection of bits and pieces useful for
distributions construction: it contains package lists, features,
and whole subprofiles (like "rescue" building block) for you
to choose from, and some ready-made image recipes as well.

Make no mistake: constructing distributions isn't just fun, it takes
a lot of passion and knowledge to produce a non-trivial one.  So m-p
(the short alias for mkimage-profiles) is complex too.  If you need
-- or want -- to make a few tweaks to an existing recipe, it might
be easier to comprehend the generated profile (aka builddir) which
contains only the needed subprofiles, script hooks and package lists
and is way more compact.

The main deliverable form for x86 is a (hybrid) ISO; virtual environment
template caches (OpenVZ/LXC) can be made either as well as VM disk images.

In short, setup hasher (http://en.altlinux.org/hasher) and here we go:
  cd /usr/share/mkimage-profiles
  head README
  make syslinux.iso

But if you're into regular distro hacking and are not afraid of make
and modest metaprogramming (some code generation and introspection),
welcome to the metaprofile itself; read the docs and get the git:
http://altlinux.org/m-p (NB: these are mostly in Russian with translation on demand).

List of rpms provided by this srpm:
mkimage-profiles (noarch)
mkimage-profiles-doc (noarch)

Maintainer: Anton Midyukov

List of contributors:
Anton Midyukov
Michael Shigorin


    1. rsync
    2. /proc
    3. fonts-ttf-dejavu
    4. fop
    5. java
    6. asciidoc-a2x

Last changed


April 26, 2021 Anton Midyukov 1.4.10-alt1
- build propagator and copy kernel in mkimage-profiles
- copy kernel to boot/ directory on iso image
- multiple kernels support for iso with grub
- add support initrd.img instead full.cz in stage1 with grub, syslinux
- use method:cdrom,fuid instead method:disk,uuid in uuid-iso feature
  (thanks jqt4@)
- vmguest: Drop virtualbox-addition kernel modules
- fix make distclean
- reports.mk: Generate rpm and srpms lists
- add hdt for grub-pc (floppy disk image)
- add items boot with local drive for grub-pc (iso)
- oem: use/deflogin/root
- add switch sddm|lightdm for kde5
- education 9.2 beta
April 5, 2021 Anton Midyukov 1.4.9-alt1
- build-distro: BOOT_TYPE = BOOTLOADER
- Add the ability to override BOOTLOADER
- grub: restrict graphics mode to architectures i586, x86_64, aarch64
- Add grub-efi support for riscv64 (thanks arei@)
- New feature uuid-iso for create UUID for ISO image (thanks jqt4@)
- Disable sort subprofiles (build stage1 first)
- fonts: Set SYSTEM_FONTS for use/fonts/install2 again
- stage2: Add cmac.ko for use SMB2 and newer
- live.mk: Add distro/grub, fix allowed targets for architectures
- init: Add mount-efivars for sysvinit
- alt-server: fix missing packages in p9
- education: pull new commits
March 15, 2021 Anton Midyukov 1.4.8-alt1
- Set BOOT_TYPE, BOOTLOADER to efiboot for aarch64
- 'Simply Linux 9.1 (beta)' commits contained (Thanks sem@)
- mipsel-bfk3: Switch to 5.4 kernel, other changes (Thanks iv@)
- oem: Add use/oem/distro
- uboot: Drop BOOTARGS cma=192M
- net: Added switch between NetworkManager (etcnet) and NetworkManager (native)
  Assigned by default NetworkManager (etcnet)
- x11: Not add use/drm to use/x11
- efi: Add check EFIVAR_FS option
- sound/base: Add test-audio
- armh-mcom02: set screen resolution 1366x768
- realtime.mk: Refactoring, drop live with session support
- engineering.mk: Switch to MATE
- x11: Reduce size of kde5
- regular-vm.mk: Set as default un-def kernel flavour, drop lts kernel flavour