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.
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
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
