While we have worked on preparing the new ISOs for the release 23.03 we have figured out that was better to bump a new release with the changes of the Calamares plugin to migrate our ISOs to kernel 6.1. In particular, the ISOs for Desktops have now the kernel 6.1.18 with built-in integration with new Realtek wifi cards. Unluckily not yet the cards 8852b e 8852be that will be available on branch 6.2. We will try to support it on kernel 6.1 with an external driver in the next release.
The Server ISOs maintain the kernel 5.10 LTS.
This is the reason for this delay and this micro-release.
We share in addition, that testing the Firefox release 109.0.1 that is been released on release 23.01 has figured out that there are some issues with NVIDIA cards. The Firefox windows were stalled often and only disabling hardware acceleration fixed this issue. So, please, if users have some similar experience with release 111.0 open an issue.
The new Download page
We are very happy to share finally the new Download page where retrieve the new ISOs is now available. Inside the Download page we have tried to use a labels view that we hope will help users to choose the right ISOs for their requirements. Any feedback about this will help, thanks.
macaronictl gets again power!
After receive tons of requests about integrate a switch command
to upgrade the kernel release, we are happy to share that the
time is arrived…
The macaronictl release 0.8.0 contains these new commands and improvements:
macaronictl kernel switch
#> macaronictl k switch [email protected]
Found kernel candidate kernel-6.1/macaroni-full-6.1.12...
Modules extra to install:
- kernel-6.1/lkrg-0.9.6
In summary this command search for all extra kernel modules installed in the system and it tries to install the selected kernel with all extra modules installed.
macaronictl kernel modules
When the local repositories are synced this command permits to retrieve all extra kernel modules availables in all kernel branches:
$ macaronictl kernel modules
| PACKAGE | PACKAGE VERSION | KERNEL BRANCH | KERNEL VERSION | REPOSITORY |
|----------------------------------------|-----------------|---------------|----------------|-----------------|
| kernel-5.10/lkrg | 0.9.6+1 | 5.10 | 5.10.174 | macaroni-funtoo |
| kernel-5.10/nvidia-kernel-modules | 525.85.05+3 | 5.10 | 5.10.174 | macaroni-funtoo |
| kernel-5.10/rtw89 | 0.20220824+15 | 5.10 | 5.10.174 | macaroni-funtoo |
| kernel-5.10/virtualbox-guest-additions | 7.0.6.155176+3 | 5.10 | 5.10.174 | macaroni-funtoo |
| kernel-5.10/virtualbox-modules | 7.0.6.155176+2 | 5.10 | 5.10.174 | macaroni-funtoo |
| kernel-5.10/zfs-kmod | 2.1.9+2 | 5.10 | 5.10.174 | macaroni-funtoo |
| kernel-5.15/nvidia-kernel-modules | 525.85.05+2 | 5.15 | 5.15.102 | macaroni-funtoo |
| kernel-5.15/rtw89 | 0.20220824+11 | 5.15 | 5.15.102 | macaroni-funtoo |
| kernel-5.15/virtualbox-modules | 7.0.6.155176+2 | 5.15 | 5.15.102 | macaroni-funtoo |
| kernel-5.4/nvidia-kernel-modules | 525.85.05+2 | 5.4 | 5.4.236 | macaroni-funtoo |
| kernel-5.4/rtw89 | 0.20220824+11 | 5.4 | 5.4.236 | macaroni-funtoo |
| kernel-5.4/virtualbox-modules | 7.0.6.155176+2 | 5.4 | 5.4.236 | macaroni-funtoo |
| kernel-5.4/zfs-kmod | 2.1.9+2 | 5.4 | 5.4.236 | macaroni-funtoo |
| kernel-6.1/lkrg | 0.9.6+2 | 6.1 | 6.1.18 | macaroni-funtoo |
| kernel-6.1/nvidia-kernel-modules | 525.85.05+2 | 6.1 | 6.1.18 | macaroni-funtoo |
| kernel-6.1/virtualbox-guest-additions | 7.0.6.155176+2 | 6.1 | 6.1.18 | macaroni-funtoo |
| kernel-6.1/virtualbox-modules | 7.0.6.155176+2 | 6.1 | 6.1.18 | macaroni-funtoo |
| kernel-6.1/zfs-kmod | 2.1.9+2 | 6.1 | 6.1.18 | macaroni-funtoo |
or for a specific kernel branch:
$ macaronictl kernel modules -b 5.10
| PACKAGE | PACKAGE VERSION | KERNEL BRANCH | KERNEL VERSION | REPOSITORY |
|----------------------------------------|-----------------|---------------|----------------|-----------------|
| kernel-5.10/lkrg | 0.9.6+1 | 5.10 | 5.10.174 | macaroni-funtoo |
| kernel-5.10/nvidia-kernel-modules | 525.85.05+3 | 5.10 | 5.10.174 | macaroni-funtoo |
| kernel-5.10/rtw89 | 0.20220824+15 | 5.10 | 5.10.174 | macaroni-funtoo |
| kernel-5.10/virtualbox-guest-additions | 7.0.6.155176+3 | 5.10 | 5.10.174 | macaroni-funtoo |
| kernel-5.10/virtualbox-modules | 7.0.6.155176+2 | 5.10 | 5.10.174 | macaroni-funtoo |
| kernel-5.10/zfs-kmod | 2.1.9+2 | 5.10 | 5.10.174 | macaroni-funtoo |
macaronictl kernel available
Running this command with root privileged now permits us to see the installed kernel in bold.
Whip power!
With little steps, we improve our knife swiss that is used to post-install hooks and for validation. In this release, we have added new important hooks to the whip catalog:
-
linking.check: This hook permit to validation of existing installation and search for libraries or binary with a broken link. So, if you find some issue with running this in a clean installation, please, open an issue.For example, on Eagle release I found this issue that permits to be fixed very fast until the fix will be available on the repository:
$> whip h linking.check Checking directory /usr/lib64... Checking directory /usr/lib... Checking directory /usr/bin... /usr/bin/rsync Checking directory /bin... Checking directory /usr/sbin... Checking directory /usr/libexec... [linking.check] Completed correctly.The
rsyncbinary seems broken:$> ldd /usr/bin/rsync linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffcb294f000) libacl.so.1 => /lib64/libacl.so.1 (0x00007f9571d29000) libpopt.so.0 => not found libcrypto.so.1.1 => /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.1 (0x00007f9571a00000) libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f9571846000) libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00007f9571d0f000) libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f9571d0a000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f9571ce9000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f9571dd6000)and then it’s very easy find the missing RDEPEND that must be fixed in the Macaroni repository:
$> luet q belongs libpopt.so.0 dev-libs/popt-1.16In this case the library
poptis missing on runtime_deps and you need to install it directly:$> luet i dev-libs/popt 🚀 Luet 0.35.1-geaaru-g2d63605bff9ddee0171f4769c4e956317b910b56 2023-03-17 03:07:06 UTC - go1.20.2 🏠 Repository: geaaru-repo-index Revision: 5 - 2023-03-18 10:12:28 +0000 UTC 🏠 Repository: macaroni-commons-testing Revision: 137 - 2023-03-19 11:49:39 +0000 UTC 🏠 Repository: macaroni-funtoo-systemd-dev Revision: 451 - 2023-02-13 09:25:49 +0000 UTC 🏠 Repository: mottainai-testing Revision: 80 - 2023-03-17 21:34:59 +0000 UTC 🧠 Solving install tree... 🍦 [ 1 of 1] [N] dev-libs/popt::macaroni-funtoo-systemd-dev - 1.16 💂 Checking for file conflicts... ✔️ No conflicts found (executed in 285 µs). Do you want to continue with this operation? [y/N]: y 🚚 Downloading 1 packages... 📦 [ 1 of 1] dev-libs/popt::macaroni-funtoo-systemd-dev - 1.16 # downloaded ✔ 🧠 Sorting 1 packages operations... 🍻 Executing 1 packages operations... 🍰 [ 1 of 1] dev-libs/popt::macaroni-funtoo-systemd-dev - 1.16 # installed ✔And then no more issues available:
$> whip h linking.check Checking directory /usr/lib64... Checking directory /usr/lib... Checking directory /usr/bin... Checking directory /bin... Checking directory /usr/sbin... Checking directory /usr/libexec... [linking.check] Completed correctly. -
postgresql.postgres_setup: this hook permit to setup Postgres SQL setup with the SLOT selected. It’s available onlxd-compose-galaxya project that set up a standalone Postgresql server based on configuration variables that will be described very soon on the LXD Compose website.
The whip-catalog is a YAML files catalog with bash/sh commands. If you find something missing or you have some idea about new hooks, please open a PR.
What next?
Well, few is changed after the release 23.03 so, the open points are
the same but we will push forward with a major priority the documentation.
I hope that we will cover a good documentation part for the next release.
Stay tuned!
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Thanks
Many thanks to all Funtoo devs that are the sap of all this and to all people that helps us with testing and donations.
Support Us
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