The /etc/dconf/profile/user file in some distributions is part of dconf
package, in some not. There are even cases where it changes between
package versions (Fedora 27 don't have it, but Fedora 28 do).
Also, base Debian Stretch don't have it, but Kali Linux based on it do.
To avoid overly complex dependency handling, create the file dynamically
on package installation if it's missing in that particular case. The
file content is canonical:
user-db:user
system-db:local
FixesQubesOS/qubes-issues#3834
- BACKEND_VMM may not be available as env variable (mock build), provide
it explicitly
- 'user' group may not exists at package build time, set it at package
installation
The dconf package isn't required by qubes-core-agent - the package ships
a configuration for it, useful if user have it installed for other
reasons. Don't try to rebuild dconf database if dconf isn't installed -
avoid misleading error message.
FixesQubesOS/qubes-issues#3492
Update dom0 about all applications installed, not only desktop files for
them. Update also supported features and other things advertised
initially at template installation.
FixesQubesOS/qubes-issues#3579
GNOME automatically set scaling factor to 2 when HiDPI is detected.
Unfortunately it does it also on not really HiDPI displays, making the
whole UI unusably large. There is no middle ground - scaling factor must
be integer, so 1.5 is not supported. Lets opt on a conservative side and
fallback to scaling factor 1.
Solution by @alyssais, thanks!
FixesQubesOS/qubes-issues#3108
It is more robust, especially handle "# Units below this line will be
re-preset on package upgrade" part of 75-qubes-vm.preset file. This is
needed to fix system configuration without the need to rebuild the whole
template.
QubesOS/qubes-issues#2913
This will save a lot of dependencies if networking is not needed in VMs
based on given template. Thanks to updates proxy over qrexec, template
itself do not need to have network configured too.
QubesOS/qubes-issues#2771
The systemctl in Debian unstable fails when trying to disable a removed
service. The manpage do not mention a switch to change this behaviour.
But it says:
Note that this operation creates only the suggested symlinks for
the units. While this command is the recommended way to manipulate
the unit configuration directory, the administrator is free to make
additional changes manually by placing or removing symlinks in the
directory.
So a simple rm should be fine.
Apparently unmanaged devices are loaded only from main
NetworkManager.conf. Exactly the same line pasted (not typed!) to main
NetworkManager.conf works, but in
/etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/30-qubes.conf it doesn't.
BTW There was a typo in option name ("unmanaged_devices" instead of
"unmanaged-devices", but it wasn't the cause).
This reverts commit 6c4831339c.
QubesOS/qubes-issues#1176
The custom way proved to be unreliable - for example does not survive
`locales` package upgrade. So settle on much more reliable way.
FixesQubesOS/qubes-issues#1195
Do not modify main /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf as it would
cause conflicts during updates. Use
/etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/30-qubes.conf instead.
Also remove some dead code for dynamically generated parts (no longer
required to "blacklist" eth0 in VMs - we have proper connection
generated for it). It was commented out for some time already
FixesQubesOS/qubes-issues#1176
qubes-desktop-file-install is called by qubes-triggers-desktop-file-install. It's
arguments are based on the Gnome desktop-install-file utility to allow it to be replaced
by same. Currently the Gnome utility can not be used since it automatically validates
the .desktop entry files with no option to skip validation and will fail on some third
party .desktop files that are not formed properly.
A single trigger script is shared between Fedora, Debian. This script is used by the
package managers triggers and will copy original .desktop files from `/etc/xdg/autostart`
to `/usr/share/qubes/xdg/autostart` and modify the OnlyShownIn / NotShownIn, etc. The
original .desktop files are left untouched and left in place.
Qubes modifies the XDG_CONFIG_DIRS to first include the `/usr/share/qubes/xdg`
directory (XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/usr/share/qubes/xdg:/etc/xdg).
If a package gets removed, it's desktop entry is also removed from the /usr/share/qubes/xdg
directory.
'qubes-desktop-file-install' options:
--dir DIR Install desktop files to the DIR directory (default: <FILE>)
--force Force overwrite of existing desktop files (default: False)
--remove-show-in Remove the "OnlyShowIn" and "NotShowIn" entries from the desktop file (default: False)
--remove-key KEY Remove the KEY key from the desktop files, if present
--set-key (KEY VALUE) Set the KEY key to VALUE
--remove-only-show-in ENVIRONMENT Remove ENVIRONMENT from the list of desktop environment where the desktop files should be displayed
--add-only-show-in ENVIRONMENT Add ENVIRONMENT to the list of desktop environment where the desktop files should be displayed
--remove-not-show-in ENVIRONMENT Remove ENVIRONMENT from the list of desktop environment where the desktop files should not be displayed
--add-not-show-in ENVIRONMENT Add ENVIRONMENT to the list of desktop environment where the desktop files should not be displayed
A file is created in /var/lib/qubes/protected-files. Scripts can grep this file before modifying
known files to be protected and skip any modifications if the file path is within protected-files.
Usage Example:
if ! grep -q "^/etc/hostname$" "${PROTECTED_FILE_LIST}" 2>/dev/null; then
Also cleaned up maintainer scripts removing unneeded systemd status functions and streamlined
the enable/disable systemd unit files functions
systemctl is-enabled always reports "disabled" for them (actually not a
real "disabled", but and error, but exit code is the same). So simply
always disable the unit, it is no-op for already disabled ones.
BTW systemctl preset also do not work for them.
Starting services in the postinst script doesn't make much sense since
the package is normally installed in the template. In addition the start
can fail when executed through a trigger.
/etc/iptables/rules.* are already part of the packet.
The removed code has never done something in debian (since
/etc/iptables/rules.* already exists).
