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# Building blendOS (and its packages)
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This one was pretty simple. First off, I just made [an organization to hold all my blendOS code](https://git.askiiart.net/askiiart-blendos) 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.
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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.
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Looking at the [package list](https://git.blendos.co/blendOS/image-builder/-/blob/main/packages.x86_64) from `image-builder` (*blendOS / image-builder · GitLab*), it seems the only blendOS-specific packages it uses are:
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```txt
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filesystem-blend
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blend-inst-git
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jade-gui
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blend-git
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blend-settings-git
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blend-web-store-git
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akshara-git
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```
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At first, after a bit of minor troubleshooting, I got this all set up and working, pretty simple.
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## Oops it didn't work actually
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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.
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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`.
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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.
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From the buid log:
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```txt
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[mkarchiso] INFO: Done!
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2.3G /drone/src/image-builder/out/blendOS-2024.10.04-x86_64.iso
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0
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```
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[](https://drone.askiiart.net/askiiart-blendos/build-blendos-iso)
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## Topology of my blendOS repo
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```txt
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| package builder |
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↓
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| | packages | |
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| Arch/blendOS |
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| repository |
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| | blendOS | |
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| | iso files |←---←|←---←
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| | blendOS iso |-----→|→---------↑
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```
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## Citations
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 Saraswat, Rudra, et al. “blendOS · GitLab.” *GitLab*, [git.blendos.co/blendOS](https://git.blendos.co/blendOS). Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.\
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 Saraswat, Rudra, and Asterisk. “blendOS / image-builder · GitLab.” *GitLab*, [git.blendos.co/blendOS/image-builder](https://git.blendos.co/blendOS/image-builder). Accessed 3 Oct. 2024.
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