* maybe use apt ^ trick to install tasks
<https://askubuntu.com/q/252056>
* Add option --dirty-licensing (and deprecate option --nonfree)
* Add option --dirty-config (and skip tweaks if unset)
* Add option --dirty
* Include report with/in generated material, including dirt warnings
* Only optionally (not by default) include tweaks.
* Include README on whether it is a Debian Blend or Debian Pure Blend.
* Isolate package auto-install flagging only relevant for upgrades.
* Modernize package auto-install flagging to call "apt-mark minimize-manual".
* Fail (or optionally warn) if both installing and avoiding a package.
* Handle bugs as parameters, and extend data documentation.
* Resolve default suite from system, favored over hardcoded string.
* Resolve named suites (e.g. stretch) from relative (e.g. testing).
* Resolve fallback to stabler suite when known less stable is missing
+ oldoldstable < oldstable < stable < testing < unstable < experimental
+ foo < foo-security < foo-updates < foo-backports
* Resolve suite from addon, and extend apt sources to include addon
+ foo-security
+ foo-updates
+ foo-backports
* Resolve suite from snapshot, and tweak apt sources to only use snapshot
* Support passing suite as URL, and then extract apt protocol too
* Use Throwable with Moo, and else Exception::Class or failures (not Carp)
* Use IPC::PrettyPipe
* Introduce compose option --nodepath (and maybe deprecate --nodedir)
+ nodepath is colon-separated lookup list for node
+ dirs without *.yml files are silently skipped
+ default nodepath is environment variable BOXER_NODE_PATH
+ BOXER_NODE_PATH internal default is .:${XDG datadir + suite/nodes}
* Resolve skeleton template variables in Boxer::File::WithSkeleton
(not in Boxer::Task::Serialize).
* Introduce compose option --style with default "preseed,script",
and warn if omitted that the option will become mandatory
+ Deprecate compose formats preseed script.
+ Deprecate skeleton template variable tweaklist.
* Introduce compose style bootstrap
+ Include skeleton files for debootstrap, multistrap, mmdebstrap, bdebstrap.
Initial release:
* Reimplement commands and classes from current make-based boxer:
+ install
+ Bootstrap::Multistrap
+ Install::Device
Later releases...
* Use Object::Remote
+ Add subclass to use Rex::Inline
+ Add subclass to use debootstrap/cdebootstrap/multistrap
* Limit coercion and type checks
<http://blogs.perl.org/users/joel_berger/2013/05/typetiny-rescues-moo.html#comment-1104703>
* Implement additional commands and classes to create a system:
+ bless
+ Bootstrap::Debootstrap
+ Bootstrap::Live-build
+ Bless::Extlinux
* Implement commands and classes to interact with an existing system:
+ refresh
+ detect
+ distill
* Implement commands and classes to interact with config classes:
+ list
+ enable
+ disable
* Implement commands and classes to echange config classes:
+ push
+ pull
+ publish
* Implement trojan" functionality for install and bless classes, to
embed as trigger unfolding at first boot in target environment.
* Implement alternate CLI shim tools which mimic conventional tools,
to bring boxer flexibility to existing unmodified scripts.
* Implement web export and/or service usable with debian-installer for
static/live boxer-driven "Hands-off" <http://www.hands.com/d-i/>.
* Implement commands and classes to interact with bug trackers:
+ triage
* Implement PXE target - i.e. DHCP+TFTP services serving preseed file.
+ <https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=IPXE>.
+ <https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=FOG_on_a_MAC>
* Improve testsuite
+ Test implicit --skeldir (by setting ENV variable instead)
* Check for items in both @pkgs and @pkgs_avoid
+ Fail by default
+ Warn and remove from @pkgs when --force
misc.
* Borrow boilerplate patterns from https://metacpan.org/pod/Sympatic
* Maybe implement warning field.
Examples:
+ Reference <https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2018/05/msg00250.html>
when including package unattended-upgrades.
+ Tweaking conffiles
(known to fail later upgrade: See bug#311188).
* Track unit testing code coverage:
<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/533553/perl-build-unit-testing-code-coverage-a-complete-working-example>
* Ask for node(s) interactively if not provided
* But fail if not on an interactive terminal
* Refactor modularity
+ Minimize dependencies of core binary package boxer
- Introduce (and have core package recommend) binary package boxer-reclass
+ Add core option --features
- Space-delimited feature sets, each colon, declared and comma-delimited
- Each feature set shadows defaults of same feature set
- Defaults: --features "gui-desktop:xfce gui-widgets:gtk3,gtk2,xfce"
+ Optionally store defaults compatible with apt-config
- Introduce (and have core package recommend) binary package boxer-apt
- boxer::Feature::ui "tui,gui,cli"; # wui
- boxer::Feature::gui-widgets "xfce,gtk,sdl,wxgtk,xlib"; # mate,gnome,wx-gtk2,qt5,qt4,lxqt,kde,fltk,gnustep,glut,tk,athena,motif
- boxer::Feature::gui-widgets::gtk "gtk3,gtk2"
- boxer::Feature::gui-widgets::sdl "sdl2" # sdl1.2
- boxer::Feature::gui-widgets::xlib "xcb,xlib"
- boxer::Feature::gui-protocol "x11" # wayland
- boxer::Feature::tui-widgets "whiptail,dialog,newt,slang,cdk,ncurses,wxbase";
- boxer::Feature::script-lang "perl,python3"; # python2,tcl,ruby
- boxer::Feature::network::attitude "extraverted"; # introverted
- boxer::Feature::network::framework "systemd" # nm,ifupdown
- Add commands to show/change features (similar to apt-mark?)
+ Have Boxer::World::Flat support dump, and others support load, of sets
- Track features
+ Have Boxer cache Boxer::World::Flat set for system default features
- Ship build-time generated default set with package boxer-apt
- If non-flat world exist (e.g. boxer-reclass is installed),
(re)generate and cache sets (and use only cache sets: ignore default set)
- If only flat world exist and system features match features of default set,
warn about missing package boxer-reclass and use default set
- If only flat world exist and system features are different from features of default set,
fail with error that features are customized and package boxer-reclass is needed to resolve them
+ Introduce pkg-exempt for conditional avoidance
listing packages tolerating its avoidance
to exclude if only tolerant packages recommend or depend on it
+ Introduce pkg-ban for unconditional avoidance
to avoid e.g gpm on hardware without video console
or libgl1 on GPU-less hardware too slow for software rendering
+ Deprecate pkg-avoid: ambiguous
+ Support tweaks prefix "in-target" and deprecrate "chroot /target"