github archlinux/archinstall v2.0.3

latest releases: v2.8.6, v2.8.5, v2.8.4...
4 years ago

Demo: https://youtu.be/w0T0ENAbXOU

New features:

  • .py support for profiles, meaning .json and .py support for profiles such as desktop is now supported.
  • Correctly identifies btrfs and installs the tools and runs mkinitcpio to package a working bootloader
  • Added some new Installer() helper functions: set_locale, set_hostname, genfstab - add_bootloader no longer takes a partition either, as it has to be given earlier in the stages for mounting to make reason.

Minor changes/fixes:

  • cache directory is no longer ~/archinstall, it's now ~/.cache/archinstall to not confuse the importer of Python.
  • Cleaned up the guided.py example, to first ask for user input, then proceed to installation. Also added a little warning before wiping.
  • Corrected some confusion in PARTUUID vs UUID
  • Fixed sys_command since which stopped working, now uses os.environ['PATH'] to find binaries.
  • Added symlinks to ./examples and ./profiles to trick/get setuptools to import the data correctly, since this issue is a huge pain in the ass.
  • Fixed the correct order of mounting /boot vs calling bootctl --path=/boot install, we were installing bootloader before the /boot mount was there.

Pre-built binary

archinstall-v2.0.3-1-x86_64.tar.gz is built using nuitka3 --standalone archinstall and simply contain the .dist folder from that result as well as the ./examples. Can be executed as is - or packaged with PKGBUILD to produce archinstall-v2.0.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz which is also included here. Steps to reproduce can also be done by running make.sh.

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