Change publish_to_repo() to accept explicit file list via variadic arguments
instead of a directory glob. This prevents re-publishing stale .pkg files
from previous builds that may still exist in BUILD_DIR.
Update build_or_skip() to get the actual list of packages produced by the
current makepkg invocation using --packagelist, filter for .pkg.tar.* files,
verify they exist on disk, and pass only those to pacman -U and publish_to_repo().
This fixes issues where:
- After pkgrel bumps, old .pkg files would cause pacman to receive duplicate
package names ("repeated target" error)
- Stale packages would be republished over the purge in local-repo
- Optional debug packages would cause errors when not produced
BREAKING CHANGE: publish_to_repo() function signature changed from publish_to_repo(name, directory) to publish_to_repo(name, file1, file2, ...) - callers must pass explicit file paths instead of a directory path
Replace gettext.ldgettext with gettext.dgettext in Anaconda exception handler
since ldgettext was removed in Python 3.11. Without this fix, the exception
handler crashes with AttributeError when trying to display errors, resulting
in raw tracebacks instead of the meh dialog in both GUI and TUI modes.
Also clean up stale __pycache__ directories from previous extractions and
add validation to ensure ldgettext is completely removed.
Add a new boot menu entry for FWS without kernel mode setting (KMS) to provide a fallback option for systems where KMS causes issues. This entry uses the nomodeset kernel parameter to force the framebuffer to VESA/EFI mode, which is slower but more reliable for problematic GPU drivers and hypervisors like VMware.
Update interactive-defaults.ks kickstart file with:
- Clarified documentation on LiveOS payload detection and mounting via /run/rootfsbase bind-mount instead of direct liveimg directive
- Added comprehensive comments explaining why liveimg directive is intentionally omitted and how anaconda --liveinst handles payload creation
- Enhanced XFCE and Hyprland package sets with noto-fonts for proper TTF rendering and additional tools (thunar, hyprlock, grim, slurp, wl-clipboard, playerctl)
- Implemented SDDM theme configuration with FWS theme support and accent colors per desktop environment (teal for XFCE, Catppuccin blue for Hyprland, Breeze blue for KDE)
- Added GDM (GNOME) configuration via dconf with welcome banner, clock enhancements, and numlock settings
- Expanded Waybar configuration installation for Hyprland with config and style files
- Added comprehensive documentation for greeter customization and Hyprland VM compatibility
- Included details about FWS recap spoke (standalone GUI summary screen) replacing zenity-based pre-install approach
Add comprehensive keybinding descriptions using bindd/binde for keyboard shortcut display, implement Catppuccin Mocha color scheme with blue gradient borders, enable animations with custom bezier curve, configure touchpad settings, add blur/shadow configuration for VM compatibility, implement scratchpad support, add screenshot and multimedia key bindings with PipeWire/playerctl integration, and define window floating rules.
Keybindings now match i3/sway FWS configuration with French descriptions that automatically appear in fws-hypr-keys shortcut viewer. Configuration includes multi-screen support, workspace navigation (1-10), window resizing, and various utility bindings.
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.
Add fws-setup-hardware script that automatically detects and installs:
- GPU drivers (NVIDIA, AMD, Intel) based on lspci output
- Hypervisor guest tools (VMware, VirtualBox, QEMU, Hyper-V)
- Audio/mic/headset stack (PipeWire), Bluetooth (BlueZ), containers (Podman)
- Optional desktop stack when non-CLI desktop is selected: Steam, Wine, VR support (Monado/OpenXR), and winboat-bin
The script is integrated into the Anaconda kickstart post-installation phase and is non-blocking to prevent installation failures from missing packages or network issues.
Also update profiledef.sh to set correct permissions (755) for the new script.
Add Hyprland desktop environment support with:
- New hyprland.conf template with keyboard layout placeholders (__KB_LAYOUT__ and __KB_VARIANT__) that get injected during installation
- Hyprland wrapper script (/usr/local/bin/fws-hyprland) that detects virtual machines and forces software rendering to prevent compositor crashes on virtual GPUs (VMware vmwgfx, VirtualBox)
- Automatic configuration deployment to /etc/skel and existing user home directories
- Refactored keyboard layout detection logic (moved to section 3bis) to support both X11/SDDM and Hyprland configurations
- Added locale generation during installation to ensure proper language support
Keyboard layout is now derived from either kickstart configuration or system locale using langtable, providing consistent keyboard behavior across all desktop environments.
- Fix XFCE display manager: replace lightdm-gtk-greeter with sddm for consistency
- Add SDDM numlock initialization for KDE, XFCE, and Hyprland
- Configure X11 keyboard layout from kickstart or locale via langtable to ensure correct SDDM login keyboard
- Enable wheel group sudo access and add all human users to wheel group
- Apply FWS branding to os-release, lsb-release, and GRUB configuration
- Remove inappropriate live system motd file
- Fix DNS resolution: configure systemd-resolved stub resolver with NetworkManager integration to prevent "Limited Connectivity" on first boot
- Reformat case statement for better readability
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.
Refactor version and variant handling to prompt for metadata on the host before entering container, enabling proper terminal display. Pass FWS_ISO_VERSION and FWS_ISO_TAG via environment variables to container.
Add build date (AAAA.MM.JJ format) to the final ISO filename: fws-<version>-<variant>-<AAAA.MM.JJ>.iso
Implement ask_iso_meta_host() function to validate and collect version (major.minor.build) and variant name inputs before containerization. Use sudo -E to preserve environment variables across privilege escalation.
Update ISO metadata prompt logic to skip if already provided, supporting both container execution and native Arch/WSL environments.
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 --network=host flag to podman run commands in both build.sh and build-offi.sh to fix DNS resolution issues.
The podman bridge network was unable to route to external hosts on certain wifi networks due to firewalld/NAT misconfiguration after network changes, resulting in "core.db: Resolving timed out" errors. By sharing the host's network stack, the container inherits the same network connectivity including DNS resolution via 127.0.0.53/systemd-resolved that is available on the host.
- 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 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 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.
Fixed a bash variable expansion bug where $name was being referenced before assignment in a multi-variable local declaration. Changed d assignment to use $1 directly instead of $name to ensure the correct directory path is set. This prevents PKGBUILD lookup failures when processing dependent packages in AUR chains.
Replace the full rebuild approach with an incremental system that skips packages already present in local-repo at the same version. This provides significant performance improvement when iterating on individual packages.
Key changes:
- Add helper functions: pkgbuild_fullver(), repo_has(), publish_to_repo(), and build_or_skip()
- Use shallow git clones (--depth=1) for AUR packages to reduce download time
- Skip package builds if already present in local-repo with matching version
- Always install packages to resolve inter-package dependencies (AUR→AUR chains, anaconda, etc.)
- Consolidate local PKGBUILD building with the new incremental system
- Regenerate only the repo database instead of copying all packages each run
- Update step 4 to regenerate repo database from existing packages in local-repo
Add PKGBUILD files for anaconda (45.8) and anaconda-widgets (45.8) to support Fedora's Anaconda installer ported to Arch for FWS with liveimg payload.
anaconda-widgets:
- GTK3 UI widgets with GObject introspection
- Extracted from anaconda source as autonomous autotools project
- Versioned on anaconda release
anaconda:
- Main installer with comprehensive dependency set
- Includes note that further iteration needed on real Arch for buildtime deps and Fedora-specific paths
- Removes widgets files (provided by anaconda-widgets package)
Update setup-aur.sh to build local packages in proper dependency order:
- Define LOCAL_BUILD_ORDER array to ensure leaf packages build first
- anaconda builds last (depends on all other local packages)
- Extract build logic into build_local_pkg function
- Fallback to alphabetical scan for future unlisted packages
- This prevents makepkg -s failures when deps are not yet installed
Add PKGBUILD files for four Anaconda installer dependencies:
- pykickstart: Kickstart language parser (>= 3.73)
- python-blivet: Storage management abstraction layer
- python-productmd: OS product metadata parsers
- python-requests-file: file:// URL transport adapter for requests
These packages are required by rhinstaller but absent from Arch repos and AUR.
All use manual module installation to avoid unnecessary build dependencies.
Also fix .gitignore by removing pkgbuilds/ exclusion to allow tracking these new packages.
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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