This profile enables the symlink-usr USE flag and target profiles have a
new variable COREOS_DISK_LAYOUT_SUFFIX that allows the profile to switch
to a different set of disk layouts. By default no suffix is used but the
usr profile uses layouts with the suffix "-usr" such as "base-usr".
This provides firmware from linux-firmware but excludes everything not
explicitly required by coreos-kernel. Note that firmware installed by
this will only be available on the root filesystem, the initrd still
uses the smaller set of firmware the linux repo provides.
The current 3.12 kernel wants a few files missing in the July snapshot:
* Missing firmware: ct2fw-3.2.1.1.bin (bna.ko)
* Missing firmware: ctfw-3.2.1.1.bin (bna.ko)
* Missing firmware: cxgb4/t5fw.bin (cxgb4.ko)
These files have been added to the linux-firmware repo so a newer
snapshot will be required but for now I'm sticking with what is already
in Gentoo so I don't have to generate my own tarball or whatever.
In preparation for moving to using firmware provided by the
linux-firmware repository instead of linux the kernel ebuild needs to
stop installing the files to avoid conflicts. Also to better ensure that
the firmware package gets rebuilt every time the kernel does bump to
EAPI=5 and set the subslot to the ebuild version/revision. The firmware
package can then depend on the kernel w/ a special slot operator to make
sure it gets rebuilt when the kernel version changes. The firmware
package can then scan the installed modules and only install the
firmware that is required.
(Portage automatic rebuild behavior often makes this sort of rebuild
happen anyway but using subslots makes it a strict requirement.)
This appears to be part of a scheme to set an alternative login password
in ChromeOS that we have not been using. Our solution will be to make
/etc read-write so this can just go away.
Existing behavior remains unchanged if symlink-usr is unset, otherwise
leave terminfo alone (if minimal is also unset) or prune terminfo down
to the set that would have been installed to /etc if minimal is set.
On CoreOS we use systemd to manage docker containers. Having docker
automatically start containers on reboot makes everything confused. Stop
doing this.
Some packages bundled with old gnulib fail to build, reporting ‘gets’
undeclared here. Bump the two I know of (so far) to pull in the fix from
upstream Gentoo.
This makes double sure that the symlink is never removed by INSTALL_MASK
or PKG_INSTALL_MASK. This symlink is so strictly required by random
tools we cannot allow it to ever go missing by mistake.
glibc 2.16 has been marked stable upstream. By chance it also fixes
cross compiling header files in /usr/include/rpcsvc which should resolve
rpcbind's build failure searching for rpcsvc/mount.h. This previously
was not an issue because the hacky glibc install copied the files
directly from the host chroot into the target sysroot directories.
A case of binary packages masking breakage, didn't notice this broke
because I didn't happen to trigger a build of gmerge during my testing.
This package.provided file contained the hackily installed toolchain
which is now handled via a normal emerge instead.
