Boot-critical (each confirmed with a real boot/install cycle, not just
code review):
- Live ISO's liveuser shell is zsh, but Hyprland autostart was written
to .bash_profile (never runs) — moved to .zprofile, and switched to
start-hyprland (Hyprland's own watchdog wrapper; raw `exec Hyprland`
is no longer the recommended launch method).
- copytoram (self-enables on most real hardware: non-optical boot +
image < 4GiB + enough free RAM) unmounts /run/archiso/bootmnt, which
unpackfs.conf and bos-copy-kernel both hardcoded as their source —
broke the installer outright on real hardware, confirmed by forcing
copytoram=y. Added a resolver step for unpackfs, and switched the
kernel copy to /usr/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/vmlinuz (part of the live
squashfs itself, unaffected by copytoram).
- BIOS installs got no bootloader — post-install.sh only ever ran the
UEFI grub-install path despite BOS shipping bios.syslinux. Added a
BIOS branch with disk auto-detection.
- @snapshots/@log/@cache were never real: iso/partition.conf's
btrfsSubvolumes key isn't part of this Calamares version's partition
module schema at all (same class of bug as the userShell fix below —
silently ignored). Calamares only natively creates @ and @home.
post-install.sh now creates the three subvolumes by hand after
unpackfs, migrates existing /var/log + /var/cache content into them
before mounting over, and adds the fstab entries — verified end to
end on real hardware, including grub-btrfs generating bootable
snapshot menu entries. The unmount step in the existing snapper
create-config dance also gained retry + lazy-unmount fallback after
a real chroot run hit a transient busy-mount race.
- Default shell was bash instead of zsh post-install: users.conf's
top-level `userShell` key isn't part of this Calamares version's
users module schema either — the real key is nested (user.shell).
- graphical-session.target ships RefuseManualStart=yes (systemd
convention), so the earlier attempt to activate it from hyprland.lua
silently failed and breadclipd (WantedBy=graphical-session.target)
never started. Starts breadclipd.service directly instead.
- /etc/os-release was never set (showed "Arch Linux"); live boot never
had quiet/splash/plymouth wired in (raw kernel scroll the whole
time) despite BOS already shipping a complete bread-logo+spinner
plymouth theme for the installed system.
Also: generalized build-local.sh's per-service skel baking (previously
only breadd.service was hand-committed; breadbox-sync/breadmill/
breadclipd never shipped), added the four new bakery packages to
BREAD_BINS, removed the redundant cliphist/fzf clipboard pipeline in
favor of breadclip, mirrored fastfetch's bread-logo config into skel,
and fixed a stale bos-update comment.
- post-install: ensure the `microcode` initramfs hook (after autodetect) so
installed systems carry CPU ucode — the live ISO embeds it, so nothing is
staged onto the target otherwise. Rebuild all presets with `mkinitcpio -P`.
- post-install: drop the nonexistent `sd-plymouth` hook branch; only the udev
`plymouth` hook exists. Set the theme then rebuild once.
- packages: add zathura + zathura-pdf-mupdf (BOS had no PDF viewer) and
libva-utils (`vainfo`); the Mesa VA-API backend now ships in `mesa` itself.
- bos-welcome: on first run, if NetworkManager isn't fully online, open nmtui
so the user connects before the first bos-update/pacman (avoids confusing DNS
errors on a fresh install). Float the bos-netsetup window like bos-welcome.
Fresh installs couldn't update — the live medium's /etc/pacman.d/gnupg doesn't
reliably carry to the target, so the first `pacman -Syu` failed with "keyring is
not writable / required key missing from keyring". Run pacman-key --init +
--populate archlinux in post-install so signature verification works out of the
box. ([breadway] is SigLevel=Never, so no extra key needed.)
Add the packages a general desktop is expected to ship, chosen to stay
opinionated but average-user friendly:
- Editors: neovim (+ ripgrep, fd for a usable nvim/fzf experience)
- GUI basics: gnome-text-editor, gnome-calculator, file-roller, loupe
- Media: vlc (BOS had codecs but no player)
- Hardware: cups + cups-pk-helper + system-config-printer (enable
cups.socket in post-install), blueman, seahorse
- Platform: qt5-wayland + qt6-wayland (native Wayland for Qt apps under
the QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland we set), xdg-desktop-portal-gtk (file
dialogs/screenshare for Flatpak/Electron/Zen), flatpak
- packages.x86_64: add bread, breadbar, breadbox, breadcrumbs, breadpad,
bos-settings so they ship in the squashfs and reach the target via unpackfs
(no network needed; install works fully offline)
- shellprocess.conf: set timeout 1800 — Calamares' 10s default was killing
post-install.sh partway (the real cause of the empty /boot + ESP); the "-"
prefix had been masking the kill as success
- bos-live-setup: live user now boots the real BOS desktop from /etc/skel
(breadd + breadbar + breadbox) with the installer layered on top
(auto-launch + Super+I), instead of an installer-only kiosk
- post-install.sh: drop the now-redundant networked `bakery install`
archiso keeps vmlinuz/initramfs in the ISO boot dir, not the squashfs, so
unpackfs lays down an empty /boot. The chroot's mkinitcpio/grub-mkconfig had
nothing to work with and the ESP ended up empty (firmware found no bootloader).
- shellprocess@kernel (dontChroot) copies the live kernel into the target
/boot before the bootloader step
- post-install.sh now runs grub-install itself, including a --removable pass
so firmware with no NVRAM entry still boots via EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI
unpackfs runs unsquashfs then rsync to copy the rootfs onto the target;
rsync was missing (error code 127), so add it alongside squashfs-tools.
unpackfs also copies the live filesystem verbatim, so the installed
system would inherit the archiso initramfs hooks (booting into the live
path) plus the live autologin/user/sudoers. Rework post-install.sh to run
in the target chroot as a resilient best-effort script that:
- removes the live autologin drop-in, bos-live-setup service/scripts and
the liveuser sudoers file, and locks root (sudo model; the live medium
left root passwordless),
- drops the archiso mkinitcpio config, installs the stock linux.preset and
regenerates the initramfs, then refreshes grub.cfg,
- keeps the snapper/services/dotfiles setup, with the network-dependent
bakery install made non-fatal so offline installs still complete.
ISO structural:
- Move post-install.sh → airootfs/etc/calamares/ (it was never in the squashfs)
- Create airootfs/etc/skel/.config/ with all dotfiles (deploy path now works)
- Add iso/pacman.conf with [breadway] custom repo stub for calamares + bakery
- Add Calamares branding component (bos/branding.desc + show.qml)
- Add missing unpackfs.conf and mount.conf modules
- Add live-session autostart: getty autologin → bash_profile → Hyprland → calamares
- Add polkit rule for wheel-group snapper rollback (pkexec path)
- Remove wlroots from packages (bundled with Hyprland); add bakery to package list
- Fix modules-search path in settings.conf
Dotfiles:
- Rename dotfiles/hyprland/ → dotfiles/hypr/ (Hyprland reads ~/.config/hypr/)
- Fix deprecated shadow options: drop_shadow/shadow_range → shadow { } block
bos-settings Rust:
- Replace glib::MainContext::channel (removed in glib 0.19) with async_channel
- Stream bakery update output line-by-line instead of buffering all at once
- Fix zombie processes: per-package update buttons now wait() in a thread
- Fix sidebar/stack mismatch at startup: select snapshots row to match default view
- Replace deprecated MessageDialog with AlertDialog (GTK 4.10+) throughout
- Use pkexec for snapper rollback so polkit handles privilege escalation
- Add confirmation dialog before delete snapshot (was missing, rollback had one)
- Add refresh button + repopulate after delete in snapshots view
- Add "Saved" / "Error: …" status label to every config view save button
- Add "Remove" buttons to breadbox contexts and breadcrumbs profiles
- Remove hardcoded model string from breadpad defaults
- Drop unused state mod; fix config_dir HOME fallback; fix zombie in editor launches
https://claude.ai/code/session_01WszGHvCmxgcyTwNSkfLF9P
