Categories: Development

TODO list for CRUX 3.7

• Flyspray tasks for CRUX 3.7

General

• consider to replace /var/run with a symlink to /run. Note: rc-script modification might be necessary if the daemon needs special directories below /run and these directories must exist at daemon start. (Done)
  • To do: handle run dir /run/user (Done)
  • adjust ports to use /run instead of /var/run and create directories as needed
• consider wayland support - a lot of ports already support it, a few crucial ports would still need changes. (Done)
  • this is a two sided blade, thinking one step further x11 might also be an optional dependency for mesa, as people might want to run pure wayland session without X11 support
  • basic wayland support landed 21/09/19 in 3.6 repo, defaulting to X11 and wayland as an option
  • this can be regarded as done. We default to X11, but it's easy to install wayland. A pure wayland desktop is possible, but harder to archive as of now, let's keep this in mind for future releases.
• consider exchanging sudo with opendoas
  • Any thoughts?
• consider moving iptables to opt, nftables can translate iptable rules with just a few edge cases

Ports

core

• move cmake, meson, ninja and python3-setuptools to core (Done, including system libs)
• replace pkg-config by pkgconf (Done)
• move libpcre2 to core, try to build at least all core ports with it, libpcre is EOL (Done)
• postponed updates because of changed API/ABI:
  • libffi (Done)
  • openssl (Done)
    • problematic with curl, wget, rust and probably a few more; needs more testing
    • these issues seem resolved, moving on…
• Adjust glibc to call a user configurable script to generate locales for a system via post-install (Done, base script from archlinux, feedback welcome)
  • the script will generate and store locales in /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive, while the C.UTF-8 locale will be stored as /usr/lib/locale/C.UTF-8

opt

xorg

• use meson/cmake wherever possible

Pkgutils

• consider a patch for renaming distfiles after pulling, git services like sourcehut do not offer named distfiles (Done)
• consider a function to disallow pkgmk to unpack source files, and to handle them in a neater way. Currently the go to solution is to rewrite unpack_source()
• consider the possibility to handle git sources natively
• pkgmk currently defines LC_ALL=POSIX, we should change this to LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 to avoid errors like: bsdtar: Pathname can't be converted from UTF-8 to current locale (done)
  • we have to install C.UTF-8 with localedef within glibc and probably in rc.fix too if not already installed
  • a pre/post-install for pkgutils with 'localedef -i POSIX -f UTF-8 C.UTF-8' should work as well (Done, included in glibc footprint)
• use curl to download files as default instead of wget. Latest wget version (2.0) doesn't work reliable (done)

prt-get

Iso

• add to packages.opt
  • inih (done)
  • itstool (done)
  • libpcap (done)
  • python3-libxml2 (done)
  • nettle (done)
  • dracut (done)
  • liburcu (done)
  • wget
  • glslang, spirv-headers, spirv-tools (done)
• remove from packages.opt
  • atk, at-spi2-atk (done)
• add to packages.xorg
  • xorg-libxcvt (done)
• setup-helper
  • rename packages
  • remove packages
    • atk, at-spi2-atk -> replaced by at-spi2-core (done)
    • pkg-config (done)
  • inject packages
    • pkgconf (done)
    • cmake, meson, ninja -> moved from opt to core (done)
    • inih, liburcu -> xfsprogs (done)
    • libpcap -> ppp (done)
    • itstool, python3-libxml2 -> shared-mime-info (done)
    • nettle, xorg-libxcvt -> xorg-server (done)
    • jsoncpp, libnghttp2, libuv, lzlib, rhash -> cmake (done)
    • nftables, libedit, jansson, libnftnl -> iptables (done)
    • glslang, spirv-headers, spirv-tools -> mesa (done)

Documentation

• documentation of new locale generation
  • /etc/locale.gen to define locale and charset combinations, the script will run in post-install and is available to elevated users under /usr/sbin/locale-gen
• lilo is dropped, docs should reflect that