Add a new GtkCheckButton for Intel VMD/RST support in the Anaconda Windows deployment UI. The checkbox is auto-detected and injects the iaStorVD driver into deployed Windows systems to enable boot on Intel machines with VMD/RST enabled in BIOS. The control has no effect on AMD systems. Update position index for subsequent UI elements.
Add support for detecting Intel VMD (Volume Management Device) controllers and enable/disable the VMD checkbox based on detection.
Changes:
- Add _intel_vmd_present() function to detect VMD controllers via lspci
- Initialize _vmd attribute based on controller detection
- Add VMD checkbox widget binding and state management
- Update checkbox sensitivity when enabling/disabling dual-boot
- Persist VMD state in configuration file
- Load VMD state from saved configuration
Display a notification in the Windows dualboot recap when Intel VMD/RST support is enabled, indicating that the driver has been injected during Windows boot.
Add _windows_dualboot_lines() function to read and parse /tmp/fws-windows configuration file. Display dual-boot status, disk allocation, ISO information, and conflict warnings when the selected Windows disk overlaps with FWS installation targets. Integrate the windows dual-boot section into the installation summary output.
Add fws_windows.glade UI definition for Windows 11 dual-boot configuration screen in Anaconda installer. Implements spoke interface with disk selection, partition size configuration, Windows ISO image selection, and validation feedback. Supports UEFI/TPM 2.0 requirements for kernel-anticheat game compatibility.
Add new FWSWindowsSpoke to handle dual-boot Windows gaming configuration in the Anaconda GUI. This spoke allows users to:
- Enable/disable dual-boot Windows gaming mode
- Select a disk to dedicate to Windows
- Configure NTFS partition size (100-200 GiB default)
- Provide path to Windows 11 ISO
The spoke persists configuration to /tmp/fws-windows for processing by the kickstart script. It implements validation for disk selection, ISO path, and partition size constraints. Platform detection ensures the feature only appears on UEFI systems.
Add wimlib, hivex, sbctl, sbsigntools, mokutil, and binutils packages required for dual-boot Windows gaming support and Secure Boot setup. These are universal tools used by fws-windows-deploy and fws-secureboot-setup scripts.
Remove the outdated syslinux-linux.cfg configuration file from the baseline syslinux directory. This file is no longer needed as the project has moved away from syslinux-based boot configurations.
Add file permission entries for new recovery-related executables and grub configuration:
- /usr/local/bin/fws-recovery-session
- /usr/local/bin/fws-recovery-gui
- /etc/grub.d/42_fws-recovery
All entries set to 0:0:755 (root owner, executable).
Changed recovery mode (fws.recovery=1) to start X server with the GTK recovery application (fws-recovery-session) instead of directly launching the console assistant. This provides a graphical interface when possible, with a fallback to the console assistant if X fails to start.
Also updated comments to clarify the different recovery mechanisms on the live ISO versus the installed system.
Add memory check warning for systems with less than 2GB RAM.
Replace simple pulsing splash with active monitoring that displays:
- Real-time anaconda activity from log files
- Elapsed time and current operation
- Stall detection after 4 minutes of inactivity
- Automatic diagnostic report collection (journal, dmesg, udev status)
- Detection of GUI readiness to auto-hide splash
Add anaconda branding environment variables (ANACONDA_PRODUCTNAME,
ANACONDA_PRODUCTVERSION, ANACONDA_ISFINAL) to show "FWS" instead of
"Fedora" in installer headers and logs.
Improve splash cleanup to handle both feeder process and optional
diagnostic dialogs.
Replace simple serial-based menu with system detection logic using whichsys.c32 to automatically select between PXE and direct system boot. This enables dynamic boot method selection while maintaining support for both boot scenarios.
BREAKING CHANGE: Changes syslinux.cfg structure from single menu-based boot to conditional boot selection. Systems relying on the previous serial menu interface and default 'arch' label will need to adapt to the new whichsys-based selection mechanism.
Remove the custom fws-local repository section from the baseline pacman configuration. This local repository reference is no longer needed in the baseline setup.
Update the UEFI boot loader entry to reflect FWS install medium branding, add sort-key directive for boot order control, align configuration formatting, and increase udev event timeout to 45 seconds for improved hardware compatibility during boot.
Add file permission entries for five new utility scripts in the fws toolkit:
- fws-hello
- fws-update
- fws-updates-check
- fws-proton-ge
- fws-recovery
All scripts are configured with owner:group 0:0 and executable permission 755.
Add support for recovery mode that can be triggered via the fws.recovery=1 kernel parameter. When recovery mode is enabled, the system launches the fws-recovery console assistant directly instead of starting the graphical environment.
This allows users to access repair tools without needing to start X server, improving system recovery capabilities.
Rename fws-hypr-keys to fws-keys and extend it to support both Hyprland and i3 desktop environments. The tool now detects the session type and uses appropriate methods:
- Hyprland: queries hyprctl binds for real loaded bindings (wofi dmenu)
- i3: parses ~/.config/i3/config with variable resolution (rofi dmenu)
Update all references in configs and templates. Add VM detection warning in fws-vr-setup to prevent VR attempts in virtual machines where GPU/USB access is unavailable.
Add ttf-liberation font dependency for Steam UI stability on minimal installations and improve error guidance for Steam crashes.
Add i3 X11 window manager as a desktop environment option with explicit VR compatibility information. Update Hyprland label to clarify it uses Wayland and is not VR compatible. Adjust position indices for subsequent radio button options.
Add i3 desktop environment option with X11 and VR compatibility note.
Update hyprland description to clarify Wayland protocol and VR incompatibility.
Both descriptions now include information about included applications (Firefox, SDDM).
Add i3 window manager as a desktop choice with X11 and SteamVR compatibility note. Update Hyprland description to clarify it uses Wayland and is not compatible with VR.
Add anaconda-summary-hub.glade file, a customized copy of anaconda 45.8's summary.glade without the "We won't touch your disks…" disclaimer label at the bottom of the hub.
This file is placed in a neutral path (usr/local/share/fws/) because mkarchiso applies the airootfs before pacstrap. Placing it at the anaconda package path would cause pacman to refuse installation due to filesystem conflicts. The live environment's .xinitrc copies this file to /usr/share/anaconda/ui/hubs/summary.glade during boot.
Delete the customized summary.glade file that was overlaying the anaconda package file. This file was previously used to hide the "We won't touch your disks…" message at the bottom of the installation summary hub.
Add logic to override the anaconda summary hub glade file at live boot time. The custom glade file is stored in /usr/local/share/fws and copied to /usr/share/anaconda/ui/hubs/summary.glade during X initialization.
This workaround is necessary because mkarchiso applies the airootfs overlay before pacstrap, which prevents pacman from installing anaconda over existing files. The file is therefore delivered to /usr/local/share/fws and overlaid at boot when the live overlay is writable.
Add a customized version of anaconda's summary.glade UI definition file to the baseline airootfs configuration. This file is based on anaconda 45.8 but with the "We won't touch your disks..." label removed from the bottom of the hub, allowing the overlay to mask the original package file without requiring an anaconda rebuild.
Add the fws-dnd package (D&D 5e Manager for dice, characters, grimoire, sessions, and combat) to the baseline x86_64 packages list under the FWS section.
Change the estimated time message from '2 à 4 minutes' to 'Encore une à deux minutes' to provide more accurate timing information to users during the FWS installer preparation phase.
Add new Glade UI definition file for the FWS recap (summary before installation) spoke. This defines the AnacondaStandaloneWindow layout with a scrollable text view to display installation summary information.
Add FWSRecapSpoke, a standalone spoke that displays a comprehensive summary of user configuration choices and detected hardware before installation begins. The spoke intercepts the installation flow between the SummaryHub and ProgressSpoke, allowing users to review and modify their choices before any disk writes occur.
Features:
- Displays user-selected configuration (language, keyboard, timezone, users, partitioning, desktop, hostname)
- Shows detected hardware (virtualization, GPUs, disks, network status)
- Provides installation flow overview and warnings about automatic partitioning
- Implements back navigation to return to the hub for modifications
- Never marks as completed to ensure proper flow control in anaconda's action queue
Add several improvements to the liveinst installer workflow:
- Expose archiso squashfs at /run/rootfsbase where Anaconda expects to find
the Live OS image, fixing SourceSetupError crashes
- Display immediate splash screen with zenity during Anaconda startup (2-4 min
wait time) to provide user feedback and prevent perceived hangs
- Wrap liveinst with dbus-run-session to provide D-Bus session bus, fixing
GLib.GError crashes from missing ScreenSaver service
- Add hardware summary log output to debug information collection
These changes address three crash scenarios identified during testing and
improve user experience during installer initialization.
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.
- 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 locale configuration, systemd service for rootfs mounting, and customization script:
- Add locale.gen to generate en_US.UTF-8 locale required by Anaconda
- Add fws-rootfsbase.service to expose squashfs as /run/rootfsbase for Anaconda LiveOS payload detection
- Add customize_airootfs.sh to run locale-gen during image build
- Add python-iso639 0.1.4 PKGBUILD (local package with correct find() API)
- Add python-langtable 0.0.71 PKGBUILD (local package with list_common_languages())
- Remove python-iso639 and python-langtable from AUR packages due to version/API incompatibilities
- Update LOCAL_BUILD_ORDER to include new local packages
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 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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