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2020-03-11amend copyright & licensing blocksLyndon Brown
Current versions of the project files are built upon versions published and licensed by Daniel Baumann, but are modified copies of those files and thus need to be marked as such per licensing requirements (afaik he did not pass along ownership / licensing rights to anyone when he left the project). We should also be careful to not be misrepresenting such modified copies as being attributed to Daniel. Adding a new copyright line referring to "The Debian Live team" should suffice for this. The authorship block in man pages has also similarly been updated. Notes: - tweaked a copy of daniel copyright lines stating 2014 instead of 2015. both of these cases were in files that i had personally introduced in some of my past merged commits that moved some code around. i don't know why they stated 2014. - binary_onie was introduced in 2018, so that has a 2018 date instead of 2016 unlike the rest. - 'efi-image' is a 3rd-party (Canonical Ltd) work that we bundle, but it has been modified by 674794a8f4d61a729d2dbd6d99385d2826138694 and 36a3ba76347ef72df1c316312ed3a26aa4b0c816 so I similarly added a debian live copyright line. - 'grub-cpmodules' is similar. it was only changed by the indentation fix of 36a3ba76347ef72df1c316312ed3a26aa4b0c816 but modification is modification, and this does help cover any possible future changes that might be made.
2020-03-05firmware: enable caching for archive content file with firmware listsLyndon Brown
the existing logic for obtaining a list of firmware packages always downloaded a fresh copy of the archive content file, deleting the file already in the cache. here we move to actually making use of the cache. this helps when building multiple times, at least for the same distro. the package list obtained is rarely going to change after all. it could of course differ between distros, but the cache is per-distro, as it has always been. we of course here switch to caching each of the archive-area files individually rather than having one file that gets overwritten (or appended to in the case of when we kept the decompressed file). Gbp-Dch: Short Closes: #952911
2020-03-05firmware: save the compressed contents file to disk instead of decompressedLyndon Brown
the existing logic was to decompress the contents file from the downloaded archive to disk, then process it to obtain a package list. the largest one by far is for 'main'; 'non-free' and 'contrib' are tiny in comparison. for sid-amd64 currently, the archive file is 37 MB, while the decompressed file it contains is 592.3 MB. we always delete the files and download afresh (currently), and a previous commit optimised by deleting the files once we're done with them to avoid wasting disk space leaving them behind. here we switch to storing the downloaded compressed file to disk instead, reducing disk space usage (and IO) by hundreds of megabytes; piping the decompression directly into awk instead of having awk read from the stored file. this moves the appending of new items into the list back within the archive area loop, which is fine since we're replacing the file for each loop now so the previous issue relating to appending is of no concern. Gbp-Dch: Short Closes: #952910
2020-03-05firmware: de-dup firmware list parsingLyndon Brown
Edit: There were four copies of the same logic to keep in sync; Originally this patch deduplicated each file, but leaving a copy of the new function in each, thus reducing the duplication but not eliminating it. A later patch moved it into a shared function file following further enhancements to the code in question. This has since been revised to have the function moved to a shared file here, which simplifies and gives a cleaner diff. Gbp-Dch: Short Closes: #952908