Supress non-actionable (sys/sd)-whonix messages

[deeplow]

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Description

Whonix is quite verbose and sometimes information is not important at all. One specific example, which is complicating automated testing is when whonix shows a dialog just to inform that some repo is enabled. This is unnecessary.

Steps to Reproduce

Install workstation on a clean Qubes system.

Expected Behavior

No unactionable information is shown to the user.

Actual Behavior

Comments

This may end up being an upstream "issue", but if there is anyway we can suppress this, it would be a very nice addition.

[deeplow]

Turns out we can (and probably should) hide these messages via a config file in /etc/systemcheck.d/. Something like this would suppress all systemcheck non-actionable messages (for SD users):

systemcheck_skip_functions+=" check_apt_repository"   # Skip info about enabled derivative repository
systemcheck_skip_functions+=" check_operating_system" # Skip OS updates check (already ensured in SD updater)
systemcheck_skip_functions+=" donate"

One thing to consider, though, is that because we're installing it in whonix-gateway-17, sys-whonix may end up also being affected.

[deeplow]

Somehow I came across a double-popup. Not sure how to reproduce / what caused it, though.

[deeplow]

Found another instance where it only mentions the derivative repository, but not donate button and the update check. And this time it showed as the system booted up for the first time and not when doing the sys-whonix configuartion step.