Latest in EasyOS/OpenEmbedded (UPDATED)
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gnupg signed-key-pair created in initrd
Posted earlier today about compiling gnupg version 1.4.23 in OE:
https://bkhome.org/news/202304/gnupg1-static-compile-in-oe.html
And always require a root password be set:
https://bkhome.org/news/202304/always-ask-for-root-password-at-first-bootup.html
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Always ask for root password at first bootup
At first bootup of a new installation of Easy, a password is asked for, to encrypt some folders in the working-partition. The same password is also applied to 'root' and 'zeus' users.
However, some people do not enter a password, so the folders are not encrypted. That may be a deliberate choice, or they may be forced as booting from an old GRUB (v1 and early-v2) or GRUB4DOS that does not recognize an ext4 filesystem with the encrypt-feature enabled.
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gnupg1 static compile in OE
Back around mid-2018, I investigated Flatpaks, and as part of that, used the 'gpg' utility, version 1.4.23, to generate a signed-key-pair in the initrd. Posted about it here:
https://bkhome.org/news/201806/auto-generated-gnupg-signed-key-pair.html
The latest OpenEmbedded/Yocto project, 'oe-qky-kirkstone', was not setup for compiling with musl. In 2018, I had OE setup to compile with musl, so as to create small statically-linked utilities, such as 'busybox' and 'gpg'.
UPDATE
Two more updates this Saturday:
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Package manager wrapper improved
About a week ago, posted about package manager consolidation:
https://bkhome.org/news/202304/package-manager-consolidation.html
There are now four package managers, and I have added the fourth to the wrapper:
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I also fixed it so when click on the "pkg" icon in a container, only "PKGget" will be available.
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AppImage Installer update fix
I fixed buglet-1 and buglet-2 reported at the release of Easy 5.2.1:
When doing an update of an AppImage, there may be some indecision what latest AppImage file to download, for example: [...]