this is a commit message. it is a MANIFESTO for no reason. i am aware.
it is 17:38. i am in pain. the pain is optional. the commit is not.
so. context, because i know you need it:
i installed gentoo to see what happens. what happened: emerge. days of
emerge. portage asked me to rebuild itself mid-rebuild and i said yes
because i was scared of what it'd do if i said no. my ext4 drive died
AGAIN so we're btrfs. snapshots are now my emergency contacts.
(profile update pending: "Used Gentoo BTW" -> "Used Gentoo and it
used me")
THE ACTUAL CHANGES (finally):
- artools is bash + pacman. it is not sacred. it is now a CONTAINER
- Containerfile: artix base, artools + squashfs-tools + xorriso +
mkinitcpio, repo buildiso as ENTRYPOINT (the --overwrite='*' one.
the other one knows what it did), antergos-pkgs pacman.conf baked in
- .dockerignore so podman users don't download 33MB of my .git and
learn things about me
devtmpfs requires rootful podman. i am not explaining why. the answer
is "devtmpfs is a coward." i am the maintainer. i am allowed to say
that. rootless? you're not building an ISO, you're building a support
system for your decisions. anyway.
- build-iso-podman.sh exists so i can stop pasting commands from the
README into my own terminal like a tourist
- README now has: podman for non-pacman (gentoo fedora debian), native
for arch/artix/kaos, and a TABLE. i made a TABLE. i am healing.
- it works on any distro with podman because i want you to suffer LESS
than me. that is not altruism. it is spite with a benefit package.
so laugh all you want. forget about me all you want. but at least i'll
be gorgeous forever. this is the longest i've committed to anything
since gentoo. and i regret BOTH of those decisions.
Signed-off-by: Michał <ash8820@proton.me>
The online DM chooser offers greetd but the online displaymanager.conf
never listed it, so Calamares skipped DMgreetd and never wrote
/etc/greetd/config.toml for COSMIC. Offline already had it.
PS: as the maintainer, this is part of the hotfix release that will drop
shortly after I finish suffering through a Gentoo install.
Fixes#14 - online install had no KDE session because two packagechooser
netinstall-add instances clobbered each other's groups. That root cause is
fixed in the calamares package (calamares 3.4.2-9, packages repo 8ed1a6e,
CALAMARES_VERSION 3.4.2-w0k3); this rebuild pulls it into the ISO.
Also add ntp-dinit to Init Services in both netinstall.yaml copies so the
installed system has the NTP service (pairs with ntpd already enabled in
services-artix.conf, relates to #13).
Adds a warning to check authoritative Calamares source before asserting
config schemas/formats, with a note that it's aimed at OpenCode agents
(adapt the tool name for others). Prevents the 2026 packagechooser/
netinstall eyeball mistake
- packagechooser_dm.conf (runtime + online ref): switch from netinstall-select
to netinstall-add, move SDDM/LightDM/LXDM/greetd/LY packages inline into the
chooser items; both copies byte-identical in content
- netinstall.yaml (runtime + online ref): drop the now-inline DM groups; bring
the online ref's Default group in line with runtime (add falkon,
networkmanager, pipewire, wireplumber)
ntp-dinit was installed but ntpd was never enabled in services-artix.conf,
so nothing synced the clock. On hosts where the RTC stores local time
(e.g. QEMU -rtc base=localtime), first boot showed a UTC+offset shift
(e.g. +2h for Europe/Paris in summer). Enabling ntpd corrects the clock
within seconds of network up.
fixes#13
why did i make a second whole ISO profile nobody asked for. a
standalone Xfce "lightweight" edition i never tested, never updated,
and that ONLY depends on orphaned packages i forgot existed
(calamares-branding-antergos-next-minimal, antergos-xfce-theme —
both still buildable, now completely dead weight, because the only
thing that referenced them was this file).
the real lowest of it is: it was the "offline calamares installer."
you know what that does now? tries to unpack a squashfs that NO live
profile builds anymore. it points a loaded gun at my foot every day
and today i finally squeezed. its last commit was renaming a theme
and telling a bot to shut up about pkexec. thats where we ended up.
it was never tested. it was a ghost. so i killed it.
actual changes:
- RIP iso-profiles/antergos-minimal, all 95 files of it (good
riddance, you were a lie)
- hauled 7 orphaned live module configs (initcpio/locale/mount/
partition/umount/users/welcome) out of the wreckage into the main
calamares/modules/ where they always lived — git LIED and called
them "renames from minimal" because the copies were byte-identical.
they were never from minimal. git is a LIAR.
- users.conf: cut the libpwquality crutch so 4-digit PINs stop getting
called weak. i built a pin picker. let it. breathe.
- netinstall (both variants): +vulkan-nouveau so NVK covers Turing+
without dragging in nvidia-open
- antergos-xfce-theme + calamares-branding-antergos-next-minimal:
now truly, blessedly orphaned.
the profile is dead. long live the profile. i am NOT maintaining two
ISOs in this economy.
Add Name[locale] for 14 European languages so the menu entry
shows a translated name in non-English locales instead of
vanishing. Keeps Name[en] and unqualified Name as fallback.
the antergos iso build might happen today maybe idk but we're ready(er)
- grub now tries 1920x1080 before 1024x768 (your monitor from 2005 says hi)
- installed users get zsh because bash is for the great pyramid
- spice-vdagent so VMs stop feeling like a divorce
Non-critical packages (Desktop/Plasma group, Utilities) went through try_install which installed them one-at-a-time (45 individual pacman calls). Override operation_try_install in PMPacman to batch all plain-string packages into a single call, matching the behavior of operation_install.
Also:
- Remove antergos-plasma-theme from rootfs (profile.yaml) and both netinstall Plasma groups
- Add allowFileSystemTypeSelection: true to both antergos and minimal partition.conf
- Both main.py files (profile + minimal) get the batching fix
so github told me my repo has NO community standards apparently
CODE_OF_CONDUCT? nonexistent. ISSUE_TEMPLATES? nada.
PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE? the void stared back.
and github profiles has a little checklist like im some
kind of degenerate who doesnt know how to run a project.
well NOW i have standards. and they are ROCK SOLID STABLE.
you want systemd? fork from before-systemd-change and figure
it out yourself, i gave you a numbered tutorial right in the
CoC. the AI moderator will read it and then politely but
firmly tell you to go fork yourself (the repo, not literally,
read the CoC).
also threw in the pixie SDDM switch that i apparently never
committed to the netinstall yamls either (kill me), the batch
install main.py cleanup, and fixed the README lying about
why artix.
DEUS VULT and please file your issues in the YAML forms
provided or the AI will judge you
c-ludenberg
Michał