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! 🥳

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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