AerynOS notes

notes.md

• Installer just panics and quits if it fails to download some package, and you have to go through the entire configuration again to retry.
• Installer didn't add boot entry to my EFI for some reason so I had to mount boot and EFI partitions and call bootctl install to fix it.
• moss state export on a clean install produces a file with many packages. I'd expect just a few metapackages that I can base off of and remove/add my own. So that the base metapackages can get updated automatically.
  • The pkgsets like pkgset-aeryn-base-desktop seem to be missing a lot of important stuff. You need to specify quite a bit of extra packages in system-model for a working system.
• The pkgsets are missing some packages I would expect them to have. For example, in the GNOME desktop, there was no networkmanager-openvpn-gnome or gvfs-smb. Printing also doesn't currently quite work out of the box apparently.
• Ability to override-remove a package so I can install a pkgset, then remove some specific app from it.
• No easy way to see/track my own changes to /etc compared to (many) files that are created there automatically.
• Can't exit out of "Blitting filesystem" even with Ctrl-C.
• Auto-installed command doesn't re-run automatically. (80-command-not-found.sh) (also there's no fish version)
• boulder recipe new doesn't work properly when given a non-archive file URL.
• Confusing warning when building one of my packages: Warning | 'version' and first parsed upstream version do not match. Expected: v2rayA, got: 2.2.7.5. What? Why is the name the "expected version"? Where did it even get it from?
• Ability to moss install build dependencies of a package like dnf builddep.
• Package -dbgsource in addition to -dbginfo so debuggers and profilers can show the actual package source.
• Some kind of debuginfo() matcher to install dbginfo + dbgsource for a given package or filename like dnf debuginfo-install. Because sometimes it's more convenient, or unclear, e.g. mesa-vulkan-drivers-dbginfo does not exist for the .so it provides.
• In system-model.kdl, ability to install specific packages (like vscode-bin which doesn't have any deps) from a different repo (like volatile).
• moss sync doesn't seem to sort packages alphabetically.
• moss sync doesn't tell you which package caused an unsatisfied dependency:

  $ sudo moss sync -u
  Refreshed local
  Refreshed unstable
  Error: sync: sync: transaction: No such name: soname(libcava.so.0(x86_64))
  

• All moss commands output the system-model spam all the time (and don't tell you how to silence it).
  • You can silence by putting disable_warning #true in system-model.kdl, but it doesn't tell you that.
• moss search-file doesn't search available (not installed) packages.
• moss info -f doesn't show the file list on not-installed packages.
• The Rust uutils are still buggy. E.g. something I've hit right away: uutils/coreutils#12393 (already fixed in next release) There's also been concerning reports from Ubuntu trying them. I wouldn't really mind GNU coreutils.
• Due to the use of a blanket-disable systemd preset, systemctl enable doesn't work (gets automatically reset). This is not obvious and not really expected.
  • Fixed in https://github.com/AerynOS/recipes/commit/6910bb0c2fce0abfe2ecba96449a92830343a54d