c-ludenberg
442980a7af
why the FUCK did i think making an init selector was a good idea
artix themselves dont even ship services in their online installer
they just give you a bare system and say "figure it out" and
it WORKS because people can just install their init of choice
afterwards. but nooooo i had to be clever and build a whole
netinstall-add monstrosity with openrc/runit/s6 service groups
that broke constantly because basestrap --overwrite is a lie
and init packages conflict with each other and sddm-openrc +
lightdm-openrc both Provide: init-displaymanager and pacman
just goes 🖕 during install.
so anyway. dinit only now. you want something else? read
changing-init.md, i literally copied the artix wiki tutorial.
i am not maintaining four init service groups in netinstall.yaml
for the rest of my life. this is my villain origin story.
actual changes:
- ripped out offline calamares mode (was never truly offline)
- ripped out packagechooser.conf (good fucking riddance)
- added packagechooser_dm.conf so you can at least pick your DM
- added BYODE offline installer (bare system + btrfs + snapper,
no DE, you pacman -Sy plasma-meta yourself)
- added yay + snapper + btrfs-progs to rootfs
- shoved Init Services + DM groups into netinstall.yaml (dinit
only, obviously)
- updated every markdown file that mentioned another init like
they were cursed (they were)
- wrote changing-init.md so i can just paste the link next time
someone asks
- X-KDE-IsAdminApplication=true so KDE stops acting like
calamares is a virus (its not, its just desperate)
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title: Live Overlay
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layout: default
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parent: Overlays
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nav_order: 2
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---
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# Live Overlay
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Files in `iso-profiles/antergos/live-overlay/` exist only in the live environment — they are **not** present after installation.
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## Contents
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```
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live-overlay/
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├── etc/
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│ ├── calamares/
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│ │ └── settings.conf # Replaced at runtime by online config
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│ ├── calamares-online/
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│ │ ├── settings.conf # Online install config (packagechooser)
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│ │ └── modules/
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│ │ ├── packagechooser_dm.conf # Display manager selector
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│ │ ├── initcpiocfg.conf
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│ │ └── ...
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│ └── sddm.conf.d/
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│ └── kde_settings.conf # SDDM autologin + Wayland session
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└── usr/
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└── share/
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└── applications/
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├── calamares.desktop # Branded launcher
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└── calamares-config-switcher.desktop # Hidden (NoDisplay=true)
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```
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## Key files
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### `etc/calamares/settings.conf`
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Placeholder — replaced at runtime by `calamares-next.sh` which copies the online settings file.
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### `etc/calamares-online/settings.conf`
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One `packagechooser` instance for DM selection (`packagechooser@dm`) using `netinstall-select`.
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### Offline config (archived)
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The offline install mode was removed in v2026.07.16 — it was never truly offline (all DE packages were still downloaded via basestrap). The configs are preserved at `iso-profiles/antergos/calamares-offline/` for reference.
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### `etc/calamares/modules/basestrap.conf`
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Controls package installation during bootstrapping. The `operations` list includes packages that must be installed with `--overwrite`. This is where `antergos-release` is listed to ensure it overwrites `/usr/lib/os-release` from the `filesystem` package.
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### `usr/share/applications/calamares-config-switcher.desktop`
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Has `NoDisplay=true` to hide it from the app menu. The upstream Artix "Install Artix Linux" entry is suppressed this way while keeping the binary available.
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