v0.1.1: Kupferbootstrap Documentation

Hi there, another update!

Today we're celebrating kupfer v0.1.1, a somewhat minor update!

Also a new team member is made official! 🥳

Contents

Homepage and Logo

I have done a minor update to the website.

• The logo is now generated from inkscape template, repo available
• This allows us to generate an inverted version and a favicon with a solid background color, which you should see in your browser tabs right now!
• This homepage's source code repo is now available in the kupfer gitlab group!
• https://kupfer.gitlab.io is now also the official website until further notice!
• the navbar links to the new Kupferbootstrap documentation instead of the Gitlab source repo

Kupfer v0.1.1

We tagged v0.1.1 of kupfer with a minor fix for the kupferbootstrap packages check PKGBUILD format checker, built generated html documentation for kupferbootstrap and added some small new packages to our PKGBUILDs!

kupferbootstrap

kupferbootstrap v0.1.1

• fix for packages check (allow more chars to be quoted)
• Sphinx html docs, including full CLI docs, generated from the code! With dark- and light-mode, including fitting logo variants! Boom! (source in kupferbootstrap/docs)

PKGBUILDs

pkgbuilds v0.1.1

(thanks to Syboxez for contributing practically all of these!)

• minor updates to device packages
• qt-wayland-config, a small config package to "encourage" QT apps to use the wayland backend, useful e.g. on phosh.
• linux-sdm845 5.18.3: newer kernel version and UFS boot slot support for enchilada and fajita.
• qbootctl (linux-sdm845 5.18.3 required)

qbootctl

qbootctl is a cool new postmarketOS-ish development that allows boot slots on Qualcomm Android devices with A/B boot slots to be marked as booted successfully, preventing unpleasant situations (both slots marked unbootable) on the Oneplus 6[t].

It is now available in our repos, so it can be installed with pacman and enabled with systemctl as usual.

It'll be added to the appropiate device packages in the device- and flavor-packages revamp in v0.2.0!

Maybe don't try this on a device that's not a qcom A/B device, mhmk?

Membership

I've made Syboxez officially a package maintainer in kupfer. He's been providing incredible help by contributing updates to PKGBUILDs and ports from our bigger sibbling distros.

We're currently working on getting FDE-unlocking working after building an initramfs shim to circumvent size restrictions in boot.img (is your head spinning yet?). Stay tuned!

Roadmap

definitely in v0.2.0

1. rework devices and flavors in kupferbootstrap and PKGBUILDs
2. related to 1: store which services to enable without becoming Debian (TBD)

probably in v0.2.0

• initramfs shim (packaging done; might need kupferbootstrap support)
• Full-Disk-Encryption (FDE) support (packaging maybe mostly done; also needs kupferbootstrap support)
• maybe squeekboard again? llvm 14 is in Archlinux testing right now.

Plans for v1.0.0 (longer-term goals)

• FDE
• proper dependency parsing and handling in kupferbootstrap, including .so files
• rust software, even if i have to introduce special builds to build them on aarch64 hardware natively.
• all Phosh ecosystem apps packaged
• if possible at least one more UI, likely Plasma Mobile

As usual, I probably forgot half the things I wanted to mention and/or link to, but c'est la vie.

Until next time!

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