- for remove and localInstall, add support for pre- and post-
scripts like there already was for install.
This feels like there's code duplication going on, but I haven't
thought of an elegant way to distinguish the available operations
so that I can pass around functions instead.
Also make install for yum and dnf follow the documented syntax: options
(-y) before the command (install), even though yum and dnf also accept
the other order. This also makes it consistent with remove.
- Make the BCP47 value explicitly lower-case.
- Add some constness and encapsulation.
- Fix up documentation in the packages module explaining the
format of the ${LOCALE} replacement (now forced to lower-case,
but it is also only the language part, not e.g. en-UK).
FIXES#922
- Count only the packages that will be changed, given the current
locale settings.
- Preserve global storage unchanged (don't remove any locale-packages).
This, kids, is why you don't switch writing C++ and Python too often.
The C++ code isn't a syntax error in Python, although this would fail
at runtime.
Update documentation, add a new key *skip_if_no_internet* to support
systems that **recommend** having an internet connection (but don't
require it), and which also use the packages module. This prevents
a long delay while the package manager tries to access the internet
and times out (repeatedly).
Existing configurations are unchanged.
- Check for 'list' when it's actually a 'dict' is strange.
Reverse logic to consider 'str' a package name and everything
else is special.
- Refactor to handle the difference between package names and
packages-with-script-data in one place.
- Add code and config documentation.
- Switch sample configurations to dummy-backend.
if the key "install" was used, the install would crash as the backwards
compatibility checks were incorrect. Fixed a typo in the run function so
pre- and post-install hooks now work correctly
the docs do not current reflect the new net-install and packages modules
changes well. This updates them to explain the new keys in the
configuration files.
This allows for installing locale packages. This can be achieved
by adding a entry of the format packagename-${LOCALE} in the
packages configuration module.
Unfortunately, dnf treats it as an error if we try to remove a package
that already did not exist. This means that, e.g., if we try to remove
calamares itself, but calamares was not installed on the base image,
only in the overlay, we will fail with an error. So, as long as we do
not have a better solution, we ignore the exit code of "dnf remove"
entirely.
(yum does not show this behavior, it returns success when the package to
remove is already not installed.)
When removing packages with yum or dnf, pass the --disablerepo=*
(disable all online repositories) and -C (run from cache) arguments.
Package removals do not normally require network access, and this
measure saves time and bandwidth and prevents possible unnecessary
errors (e.g., if we do not have active network access, or if there is
some problem with the mirrors).
