diff --git a/airootfs/root/packages/README b/airootfs/root/packages/README
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c8cde35
--- /dev/null
+++ b/airootfs/root/packages/README
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+place packages here to get installed inside run_before_squashfs process/script
diff --git a/airootfs/root/packages/cnchi-0.16.52-2-any.pkg.tar.zst b/airootfs/root/packages/cnchi-0.16.52-2-any.pkg.tar.zst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1760b55
Binary files /dev/null and b/airootfs/root/packages/cnchi-0.16.52-2-any.pkg.tar.zst differ
diff --git a/internetarchive.log b/internetarchive.log
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..17d8e37
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internetarchive.log
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+2026-06-08 18:34:30,688 - internetarchive.session - DEBUG - no metadata provided for "antergos-next", retrieving now.
+2026-06-08 18:34:30,689 - urllib3.connectionpool - DEBUG - Starting new HTTPS connection (1): archive.org:443
+2026-06-08 18:34:33,782 - urllib3.connectionpool - DEBUG - https://archive.org:443 "GET /metadata/antergos-next HTTP/1.1" 200 None
diff --git a/run_before_squashfs.sh b/run_before_squashfs.sh
index 6ddf185..d548830 100755
--- a/run_before_squashfs.sh
+++ b/run_before_squashfs.sh
@@ -175,12 +175,15 @@ echo "---> Clean pacman log and package cache --->"
 rm "/var/log/pacman.log"
 # pacman -Scc seem to fail so:
 rm -rf "/var/cache/pacman/pkg/"
-echo "---> remove ranked mirrorlist, used for fetching offline packages replacing it with original from package --->"
-mv "/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-from-package" "/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist"
+echo "---> Keep ranked mirrorlist for live session (removed revert to packaged default) --->"
+rm -f "/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-from-package"
 
 echo "---> Fix cnchi desktop file to use pkexec --->"
 sed -i 's|^Exec=cnchi$|Exec=pkexec cnchi|' "/usr/share/applications/cnchi.desktop"
 
+echo "---> Fix cnchi regain_privileges bug (false return before seteuid) --->"
+sed -i '/^        if os.geteuid() != 0:$/,/^        os\.setgroups(\[\])$/c\        if os.geteuid() != 0:\n            os.seteuid(0)\n            os.setegid(0)\n            os.setgroups([])' "/usr/share/cnchi/misc/extra.py"
+
 echo "---> Set Antergos NeXT os-release --->"
 cat > "/usr/lib/os-release" << 'OSEOF'
 NAME="Antergos NeXT"