The replacement update mechanism will be a script installed on your
system. The advantage of downloading the update mechanism before
running it is that it allows you to upgrade the upgrade mechanism.
Naturally the disadvantage is that you have to download it. Debian
systems have a mechanism for this; we'll use it.
It's understandable why you might want to pull this off a server in case
how you have to upgrade things changes for some reason, but we're moving
toward following Debian's lead on these things to the greatest extent
possible.
One of the reasons I held off on doing this before is that there are a
lot of complex one-line seds in here that I expect _will_ be broken by
this. More than a few of these will assume, depend on, require, and
break if specific hardcoded whitespace is not found. That's problematic
anyway--when whitespace isn't syntactic, you shouldn't do that. So it's
time to fix these anyway.
self-hosted external dependency fallback; or default via A2SERVER_NO_EXTERNAL=1
a2serverrc sets default A2SERVER_SCRIPT_URL and A2SERVER_BINARY_URL
64-bit Debian precompiled binary support
support for reorganized files subdirectory
better information re unsupported OS at start of install
info about netboot at end of install
no longer deletes ~/GNUstep
install libdb5.1 and libssl1.0.0 by default instead of older versions
small tweaks and fixes regarding Debian detection, case insensitive fs, etc
updated source code path for The Unarchiver
this is internal version 1.2.8; see "release" notes about external dependencies
Closes#11 and #13. As mentioned in #11, support for Ubuntu should
return in the future, but not explicitly. Rather, the core of A2SERVER
itself ashould be made to run on any OS distribution for which our
requirements are met.
The goal is that any OS-specific details should be part of OS-specific
packaging or handled by the user (editing MOTD/issue files, etc.) We
can handle those details on Debian systems because we know how to do
that when packaging for Debian. Ubuntu, Fedora, etc. packages will have
to make their own tweaks. This commit doesn't do all of that, but it
does mean there's one fewer things we need to worry about during the
transition.
Reflowed the scripts (mostly) according to vim's autoindent engine.
Also added vim modelines so that people who are familiar with them can
configure their environment for A2SERVER's conventions. Also removed
trailing whitespace from lines and files while I was at it to make git
happier about various things.
