Release winesapOS 4.1.0 on our 4th anniversary

[LukeShortCloud]

August 18th, 2024 will be our 4th anniversary. We're waiting on a bunch of different upstream changes that should all finally be in by then.

ChimeraOS 46 was just released today on their 5th anniversary and I'm inspired to do the same!

https://github.com/ChimeraOS/chimeraos/wiki/Release-Notes#chimeraos-46-2024-07-23

[LukeShortCloud]

I've updated the 4.1.0 milestone accordingly with this due date.

[LukeShortCloud]

Hey @GuestSneezeOSDev , I wanted to give you a heads up that the stable winesapOS 4.1.0 release will be coming out in less than two weeks!

Here are the current issues left that I'm working on: https://github.com/LukeShortCloud/winesapOS/milestone/17

Is there anything else you'd potentially want to get into this release to help with GueestSneezeOS? Or anything else?

I made some big changes to your dual-boot script to make it work more automatically and with more logging. I did some initial testing of that with Windows 10 and it worked great. I'm going to test Windows 11 and macOS, too. If you want to try it out, I can share with you the necessary files and documentation.

[GuestSneezeOSDev]

I Might test it out in macOS (Hackintosh) and Other Linux Distros (Debian,Arch Linux and Fedora) I will make a new comment if it worked or did not work

[GuestSneezeOSDev]

It worked extremely well with Hackintosh and other Distros

[LukeShortCloud]

Thanks for helping test! I'll mention all of the tested operating systems with dual-boot in our release notes.

I haven't merged the new code yet but there are modified steps for the dual-boot guide. In particular, there is a new "Semi-automated steps:" section.

https://github.com/LukeShortCloud/winesapOS/tree/test?tab=readme-ov-file#dual-boot https://github.com/LukeShortCloud/winesapOS/tree/test?tab=readme-ov-file#winesapos-dual-boot-install-guide

The stable 4.1.0 release tarball is not ready yet but, for now, you can download the older rootfs. The dual-boot installer will automatically search for it in a few different directories. As the winesap user, download the rootfs first.

cd ~/Downloads/
wget https://winesapos.lukeshort.cloud/repo/iso/winesapos-4.1.0/_test/winesapos-4.1.0-beta.0-minimal-rootfs.tar.zst

Then you can try out the new script as the winesap user. It assumes that the partitions have already been created and labelled (ex., winesapos-root0, winesapos-boot0, and (optionally) WOS-EFI0).

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LukeShortCloud/winesapOS/test/scripts/winesapos-dual-boot.sh | bash

[GuestSneezeOSDev]

Thanks it works well for dualbooting windows with winesapOS, I just have one question how could i edit the Pacman.conf of winesapOS

[LukeShortCloud]

Nice, thanks for confirming that the updated script works!

For the /etc/pacman.conf, we used to have a file we would copy over. I stopped doing that because there were a few times that Pacman updated its configuration file and we missed those changes. Now we dynamically add the configuration during the build. If you search for "pacman.conf" in the winesapos-install.sh script, you'll see many sed lines to cleverly modify the configuration file.

https://github.com/LukeShortCloud/winesapOS/blob/4.1.0-beta.2/scripts/winesapos-install.sh

For the upgrade, we have crudini available to modify the configuration. You may find this interesting as this part of the code recreates our /etc/pacman.conf:

https://github.com/LukeShortCloud/winesapOS/blob/4.1.0-beta.2/scripts/winesapos-upgrade.sh#L188 https://github.com/LukeShortCloud/winesapOS/blob/4.1.0-beta.2/scripts/winesapos-upgrade.sh#L254 https://github.com/LukeShortCloud/winesapOS/blob/4.1.0-beta.2/scripts/winesapos-upgrade.sh#L323

[GuestSneezeOSDev]

Thanks for the information it was very helpful since I am currently making a package repository for GuestSneezeOS