This one was pretty simple. First off, I just made an organization to hold all my blendOS code on my Forgejo instance just to keep it organized. Then I just cloned all the relevant repositories from upstream (blendOS · GitLab), added my own code with some minor fixes and stuff, then pushed the updated code to my server.
After that, it was just a matter of adding the actual
packaging for the code. For the packages that were required for
building the blendOS iso
file, if I didn't have my
own repository for them already, I just made a new branch,
updated the packaging, and pushed the packaging to that
branch.
Looking at the package
list from image-builder
(blendOS /
image-builder · GitLab), it seems the only blendOS-specific
packages it uses are:
filesystem-blend
blend-inst-git
jade-gui
blend-git
blend-settings-git
blend-web-store-git akshara-git
At first, after a bit of minor troubleshooting, I got this all set up and working, pretty simple.
I then realized that my iso
file worked, but was
not using my repo, and I had even forgotten to even add some of
the packages.
Turns out I had added my repo to the container's
pacman
configuration, but not to the
pacman
config for archiso
, the tool
used to generate the iso
file, or the actual
resulting iso
image's pacman
config
either. So while I would have been able to install anything from
my repo in the container, the repo was unused by
archiso
.
I just added the missing packages needed to build the
iso
file, plus all the others on blendOS's GitLab,
and rebuilt it. After a bit of troubleshooting (nothing
interesting, just incompetency, wrong perms, stuff like that), I
got it working perfectly.
From the buid log:
[mkarchiso] INFO: Done!
2.3G /drone/src/image-builder/out/blendOS-2024.10.04-x86_64.iso 0
|-----------------|
| |
| package builder |
| |
|-----------------|
|
|
↓
|-----------------------------|
| ↓ |
| |----------| |
| | packages | |
| |----------| |
| |
| Arch/blendOS |
| repository |
| |
| |-----------| |
| | blendOS | |
| | iso files |←---←|←---←
| |-----------| | |
| | |
|-----------------------------| |
| |
| |
| |
↓ |
|-------------------------| |
| | |
| Arch/blendOS | |
| clients | |
| | |
| |--------------| | |
| | blendOS iso |-----→|→---------↑
| | builder | |
| |--------------| |
| | |-------------------------|
Saraswat, Rudra, et al. “blendOS · GitLab.” GitLab,
git.blendos.co/blendOS.
Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
Saraswat, Rudra, and Asterisk. “blendOS / image-builder ·
GitLab.” GitLab, git.blendos.co/blendOS/image-builder.
Accessed 3 Oct. 2024sku.