Merge upstream archiso changes, bootmode makeover (upstream) adding firefox.desktop file for livesession to let it start without showing affiliate links from firefox, exchanging maliit-keyboard with plasma-keyboard

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@
 
 
 ---
-# Post Mercury changes (2025)
+# Ganymede Release Changes (2025)
 * adding nvidia.service and script to install Nvidia Modules packages open or closed source related to Model ranges.
+* Broadcom-WL handling is now using a service too, and it will popup request to change driver on the livesession asking user to proceed.
 * updating mkarchiso to latest and merging changes to bootloader entry format from upstream.
 * changing boot entries to as of no need to blacklist Nvidia (as not installed on boot)
 * updating preview pictures in liveuser skel settings to show properly on live session.

airootfs/etc/hostname

@@ -1,3 +1 @@
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
 EndeavourOS

airootfs/etc/locale.conf

@@ -1,4 +1 @@
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8

airootfs/etc/mkinitcpio.conf.d/archiso.conf

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+MODULES=(vmd)
+HOOKS=(base udev modconf kms memdisk archiso archiso_loop_mnt archiso_pxe_common archiso_pxe_nbd archiso_pxe_http archiso_pxe_nfs block filesystems keyboard)
+COMPRESSION="zstd"

airootfs/etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset

@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 # mkinitcpio preset file for the 'linux' package on archiso
 
 PRESETS=('archiso')
 
 ALL_kver='/boot/vmlinuz-linux'
-ALL_config='/etc/mkinitcpio.conf'
+archiso_config='/etc/mkinitcpio.conf.d/archiso.conf'
 
 archiso_image="/boot/initramfs-linux.img"

airootfs/etc/systemd/journald.conf.d/volatile-storage.conf

@@ -1,5 +1,2 @@
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 [Journal]
 Storage=volatile

airootfs/etc/systemd/logind.conf.d/do-not-suspend.conf

@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 [Login]
 HandleSuspendKey=ignore
 HandleHibernateKey=ignore

airootfs/etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d/autologin.conf

@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
 [Service]
 ExecStart=
 ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty --autologin liveuser --noclear %I 38400 linux

airootfs/root/.automated_script.sh

@@ -1,22 +1,29 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-script_cmdline ()
-{
+script_cmdline() {
     local param
-    for param in $(< /proc/cmdline); do
+    for param in $(</proc/cmdline); do
         case "${param}" in
-            script=*) echo "${param#*=}" ; return 0 ;;
+            script=*)
+                echo "${param#*=}"
+                return 0
+                ;;
         esac
     done
 }
 
-automated_script ()
-{
+automated_script() {
     local script rt
     script="$(script_cmdline)"
     if [[ -n "${script}" && ! -x /tmp/startup_script ]]; then
-        if [[ "${script}" =~ ^((http|https|ftp)://) ]]; then
-            curl "${script}" --retry-connrefused -s -o /tmp/startup_script >/dev/null
+        if [[ "${script}" =~ ^((http|https|ftp|tftp)://) ]]; then
+            # there's no synchronization for network availability before executing this script
+            printf '%s: waiting for network-online.target\n' "$0"
+            until systemctl --quiet is-active network-online.target; do
+                sleep 1
+            done
+            printf '%s: downloading %s\n' "$0" "${script}"
+            curl "${script}" --location --retry-connrefused --retry 10 --fail -s -o /tmp/startup_script
             rt=$?
         else
             cp "${script}" /tmp/startup_script
@@ -24,6 +31,9 @@ automated_script ()
         fi
         if [[ ${rt} -eq 0 ]]; then
             chmod +x /tmp/startup_script
+            printf '%s: executing automated script\n' "$0"
+            # note that script is executed when other services (like pacman-init) may be still in progress, please
+            # synchronize to "systemctl is-system-running --wait" when your script depends on other services
             /tmp/startup_script
         fi
     fi

airootfs/root/.zlogin

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # fix for screen readers
-if grep -Fq 'accessibility=' /proc/cmdline &> /dev/null; then
+if grep -Fqa 'accessibility=' /proc/cmdline &> /dev/null; then
     setopt SINGLE_LINE_ZLE
 fi
 

mkarchiso-changes.md

@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+change on 2025.11.09:
+remerge changes [bootmode changes, some config changed (updated), adds support for IA32-UEFI boots (forcingly)]
+```
+Version archiso 87-1
+```
+
+
 change on 2025.09.15:
 remerge changes, no code changes
 ```

packages.x86_64

@@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ plasma-browser-integration
 plasma-desktop
 plasma-disks
 plasma-firewall
+plasma-keyboard
 plasma-nm
 plasma-pa
 plasma-x11-session

profiledef.sh

@@ -11,8 +11,7 @@ buildmodes=('iso')
 quiet="n"
 work_dir="work"
 out_dir="out"
-bootmodes=('bios.syslinux.mbr' 'bios.syslinux.eltorito' 'uefi-x64.systemd-boot.esp' 'uefi-x64.systemd-boot.eltorito')
-
+bootmodes=('bios.syslinux' 'uefi.systemd-boot')
 arch="x86_64"
 pacman_conf="pacman.conf"
 airootfs_image_type="squashfs"