Implement a new Anaconda spoke that allows users to select their preferred desktop environment (CLI, GNOME, KDE Plasma, Hyprland, or XFCE) during installation.
The spoke:
- Displays radio buttons for five desktop choices with CLI as the default
- Persists the selection to /tmp/fws-desktop for the kickstart %post script
- Supports revisiting the spoke and resuming previous selections
- Includes a GTK UI definition file (glade) with translatable labels
- Integrates as a SoftwareCategory spoke in the Anaconda installer
The implementation leverages Anaconda's runtime spoke discovery mechanism via the airootfs overlay, avoiding the need to rebuild the anaconda package.
Replace automatic version reading from VERSION file with interactive prompts for version (major.minor.build) and ISO variant name (e.g., cli, gnome, kde).
Changes:
- Remove automatic VERSION file reading; now serves as default with prompt
- Add interactive prompts for version and variant name with validation
- Simplify ISO naming from FWS-v{major}-{minor}-{build}-{date}-x86_64.iso to fws-{version}-{variant}.iso
- Update hostname from 'archiso' to 'fws'
- Add custom FWS logo for fastfetch with color configuration
- Improve error messages and user feedback
This enables flexible build variants and streamlines the build process.
Replace keyboard correction logic in kickstart with anaconda package patches:
- Add "Nom de machine" (hostname) field to the User spoke in anaconda GUI
- user.py writes the hostname value to /tmp/fws-hostname for the kickstart %post
- Simplify kickstart to read from /tmp/fws-hostname instead of live hostname
- Fix keyboard layout selection to use full locale (e.g. fr_CH) instead of just language (fr)
to correctly derive territory-specific keymaps (ch(fr) for Switzerland, not fr for France)
- Remove outdated fix_keyboard() function from kickstart
Also add --network=host flag to podman run in setup-aur.sh to ensure DNS and internet
connectivity through the host stack instead of the bridge (fixes timeout issues on
certain networks with firewalld/NAT).
Bump anaconda pkgrel from 2 to 4.
Fix two bugs in the anaconda post-installation script:
1. Hostname handling: Anaconda writes an empty /etc/hostname to the target system. Now we preserve the hostname set during installation from the live environment, falling back to 'fws' if using default values.
2. Keyboard mapping: Anaconda derives keyboard layout from language only, ignoring territory. For locales with territory variants (e.g., fr_CH for Switzerland), we now apply territory-specific keyboard maps to both console (vconsole.conf) and X11 (xorg.conf.d) using langtable for proper mapping.
- Add kernel copy step in %pre to ensure vmlinuz-linux is available for mkinitcpio
- Refactor xinitrc post-install log detection to use /tmp/fws-post-chroot.log copied by kickstart
- Add success detection based on mkinitcpio and grub-install log markers
- Display success screen and poweroff on successful installation, show debug logs on failure
- Add load_policy and setstatus stub scripts to suppress SELinux-related Anaconda warnings
- Force MBR partition table (--disklabel=msdos) for BIOS boot compatibility
- Create standard mkinitcpio preset to replace archiso-specific configuration
- Automatically inject lvm2 hook when root is on LVM
- Fix GRUB installation to properly extract disk path from lsblk output
- Downgrade version to 0.5.3 (development/testing release)
- Add fallback GRUB installation for UEFI systems using --removable flag to ensure boot without NVRAM entries
- Fix BIOS disk detection for LVM root partitions by using lsblk with proper filtering instead of pkname
- Enhance debug logging to include %post chroot phase logs (fws-post.log) which indicate bootloader success
- Automatically mount and retrieve installation logs from the installed disk to verify bootloader installation
- Add detailed comments explaining UEFI/BIOS fallback strategies and LVM-aware disk detection
These changes ensure the system can boot even when NVRAM entries are missing or forgotten by firmware, and provide better visibility into bootloader installation success during the debug phase.
Add zerombr and clearpart commands to ensure clean disk state before installation.
This prevents issues when reinstalling on previously partitioned disks by:
- Reinitializing invalid partition tables (zerombr)
- Removing all partitions from all disks (clearpart --all)
- Writing a fresh disk label (--initlabel)
This makes reinstallation reliable even on disks with previous installations,
while allowing users to override defaults via the GUI if needed.
Add python-crypt_r PKGBUILD to provide the crypt module removed in Python 3.13 (PEP 594), required by pyanaconda/core/users.py for password hashing.
Add python-legacy-cgi for the cgi module also removed in Python 3.13, required by python-requests-ftp imported by pyanaconda/core/util.py.
Add ostree to provide the OSTree-1.0 GI namespace required by pyanaconda/rescue.py for the rpm_ostree payload.
Add libblockdev LVM CLI mode configuration to avoid DBus dependency issues with lvmdbusd unavailable in Arch.
Update setup-aur.sh to include python-crypt_r in the local build order before python-meh.
Add Anaconda installer integration to FWS live environment:
- Implement Anaconda launcher in .xinitrc with comprehensive error logging and debugging support
- Add anaconda and anaconda-widgets packages to baseline and releng ISO configs
- Fix anaconda-widgets PKGBUILD: replace gladeui with glib2-devel, disable Glade module
- Update anaconda PKGBUILD with improved dependencies and build configuration
- Add python-blivet PKGBUILD with detailed dependency documentation
Enhance documentation and branding:
- Expand AUTHORS.rst to clarify FWS vs archiso authorship and licensing
- Update CONTRIBUTING.rst with inbound=outbound licensing policy and DCO requirements
- Extend README.md with comprehensive legal basis table and licensing checklist
- Remove Arch Linux references from MOTD and update to FWS GitHub project page
- Fix fastfetch.sh to avoid read-only variable conflict in zsh
- Add xterm to packages for installer debugging
All changes maintain GPL-3.0-or-later compliance and improve GPL offer transparency.
Add comprehensive FOSS compliance documentation including:
- COPYRIGHT.md: copyright holders and code ownership
- LICENSING.md: GPL-3.0-or-later policy and source offer
- NOTICE: attribution requirements for permissive licenses
- THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.md: third-party software inventory
- TRADEMARKS.md: trademark notices and non-affiliation
- os-release hook and files: identify FWS as separate from Arch Linux
These documents establish legal compliance baseline for GPL/AGPL/Apache/MIT/BSD obligations before public distribution.
Add automatic detection and relaunching of build scripts in an Arch Linux container via podman when running on non-Arch distributions (Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, etc.).
Key changes:
- Implement host_is_arch() function to detect if running on Arch Linux by checking both pacman availability and /etc/os-release
- When non-Arch host is detected, scripts automatically pull docker.io/library/archlinux:latest and relaunch themselves in rootful podman container with --privileged
- Mount repository at same absolute path inside container so WORK_DIR and out/ directories work transparently
- Set up persistent pacman cache volume (fws-pacman-cache) between runs
- Auto-chown output files back to host user after build completes
- Update pacman config to disable landlock sandbox in containers (similar to WSL workaround)
- Run full pacman -Syu upgrade in container before installing archiso to avoid partial upgrade issues
- Add comprehensive documentation in README about Fedora/non-Arch setup
- Update .gitignore to exclude pkgbuilds/ directory
- Add environnement.md documentation file
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