Arkdep patch notes

2024.09.30

• Add dependencies feature, this allows variants to extend themselves with the configuration of other variants.
• Add ARKDEP_DATABASE override.
• Add support for variant defined default names
• Various miscellaneous fixes and cleanup.

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;