Arkane Linux

Arkdep patch notes

2024.09.06

  • Experimental Debian support.
  • EFI variable bootselector dropped in favor of timestamped entries.
  • Implemented systemd-bless-boot.
  • Various miscellaneous fixes and cleanup.

2024.08.15

  • Added support for code comments in package list files.
  • Dropped nm-system-connections symlink.
  • Add lockfile to prevent multiple simultaneously active instances.
  • Various miscellaneous fixes and cleanup.

2024.07.27

  • Replace var_migrate_files with migrate_files.

2024.07.26

  • Perform cleanup on migration and update scripts.
  • Fix delete action asking for confirmation when deploy has been called.

2024.07.17

  • Implement interactive mode.
  • Add ARKDEP_CONFIRM to allow for the skipping of interactive prompts.
  • Implement diff option.

2024.07.05

  • get-available now scrapes available variants from the web page, list file has been dropped.
  • backup_user_accounts now enabled by default.

2024.05.24

  • Miscellaneous code cleanup, fixes and refactors.
  • Default deploy_keep changed to 3.
  • arkdep-build now checks if sufficient storage is available before building.

2024.05.01

  • Add option to remove tarball after deployment is finished.
  • Btrfs receive now reads images from stdin instead of from disk.
  • Add support for migrations.
  • A tiny bit of code and terminal output cleanup.
  • arkdep-build now performs builds inside of a disk image.

2024.04.21

  • Documentation has been moved to manpages.
  • Prevent the system from sleeping during image download.
  • Handle user interupts during deployments.
  • Refuse user interupts while writing images to disk.
  • Add load_extensions feature for arkdep deploy.
  • Various code cleanup and refactors.

2024.03.29

  • Each image now has its own unique /var directory.
  • System-wide Flatpak installs now stored in /arkdep/shared/flatpak subvolume.
  • /root is no longer a symlink to /var/roothome, it is now instead a subvolume stored in /arkdep/shared/root.

To port to this breaking update do the following;

btrfs subvolume create /arkdep/shared/flatpak btrfs subvolume create /arkdep/shared/root btrfs filesystem mkswapfile --size 6G /arkdep/shared/swapfile Update /arkdep/overlay/etc/fstab; - Remove /var entry - Update swapfile entry to /arkdep/shared/swapfile - Add subvol=arkdep/shared/flatpak entry mounted to /var/lib/flatpak - Add subvol=arkdep/shared/root entry mounted to /root