Passing files to Dom0 is always dangerous:
- Passing a git repository is dangerous as it can have ignored modified
files and signature verification will pass.
- Passing an archive is troublesome for updates.
- Passing an RPM package depends on the RPM verification to be correct,
some times it is not.
- Passing a RPM repository definition is less troublesome for the user,
as it is a small file to verify the contents and update mechanism is
via the package manager. Trust in RPM verification is still required.
Many improvements were made to the build scripts:
- requires-program: Single function to check if program is installed;
- spec-get: Sort project names for the usage message;
- spec-get: Only running commands that are necessary;
- spec-get: Fix empty summary when readme has copyright header;
- spec-gen: Fix grep warning of escaped symbol;
- spec-build: Sign RPM and verify signature;
- spec-build: Only lint the first SPEC for faster runtime;
- yumrepo-gen: Generate a local yum repository with signed metadata;
- qubesbuilder-gen: Generate a .qubesbuilder based on tracked projects;
- release: Build, sign and push all RPMs to repository.
Goal is to be able to build with qubes-builderv2 Qubes Executor.
For: https://github.com/ben-grande/qusal/issues/37
Only deb and rpm where cached and only if used from the Qubes website
and made to individual directories. Now every package from every package
manager Qubes supports will be cached.
Update according to upstream.
If user just installed Qubes, the full templates can have updates
available. If user restored backups of templates and standalones, they
could also have updates available. Available updates can contain fixes
that if not applied, can make the states fail, such as a buggy salt
package and Qrexec service that can make a state fail in case the
full outdated templates and standalones are responsible for the
functionality specially of management_dispvm, updatevm, default_netvm
and qubes.UpdatesProxy service.
- Enforce uninstall in Fedora, it has been too problematic due to zchunk
checksum mismatch errors;
- Skip tagging and installing on unsupported qubes, before it tagged
every template that did not have the tag 'whonix-updatevm', this is
error prone as it would fail the installation on unsupported clients
such as Gentoo, Mirage.
Fixes: https://github.com/ben-grande/qusal/issues/54
Ability to read the program's manual from the terminal is much better
than to ask the user to search the manual page on the internet, we
already trust the installed program and documentation, but we should not
trust every manual page on the internet.
- Maim causes no errors and has region and window capabilities;
- Scrot region capture puts some weird borders when dragging the mouse;
- Spectacle allows editing but is too feature rich (complicated); and
- Xfce4-screenshooter does not allow selecting both region and window.
Fixes: https://github.com/ben-grande/qusal/issues/51
It is not possible to troubleshoot network module loading without
pciutils. Although it is a troubleshooting tools, it is not
troubleshooting the network, but to make the system itself be able to
load kernel modules and reach the network, therefore necessary.
Qubes that have the updates-proxy-service enabled will have the
repository definitions set to work with the proxy, being it a TemplateVM
or another type of qube. Qubes that have that same service disabled and
are based on templates that are being cached, will have the repository
definitions corrected for it to work like normal systems via the
networking instead of caching proxy.
Optimizations were done for a faster runtime, previously it would call
sed 38 times on Fedora-39, now it only calls sed 2 times for Fedora
repositories (one extra for rpmfusion) and some more for PackageKit and
dnf.conf markers. Inexpensive runtime is a must for a script that may
run multiple times, such as when being called by a tool monitoring the
filesystem such as inotify.
Code from /usr/lib/qubes/update-proxy-configs was used for the NetVM use
case of the cacher, thus the license had to be changed.
For: https://github.com/ben-grande/qusal/issues/44
Fixes: https://github.com/ben-grande/qusal/issues/31
