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+Subject KISS LINUX
+From Dylan Araps <dylan@kisslinux.org>
+Date Sun, 11 Jul 2020 15:00:00 +0100
+
+Hello,
+
+Exactly two weeks have passed since my return to the development of KISS. In
+this time period, I have made a collective 600+ commits to the project. KISS
+has also moved from LibreSSL to OpenSSL and from Xorg to Wayland. The purpose
+of this blog post is to highlight the changes.
+
+The move to Wayland was always planned, it was just not possible at the time
+KISS was created. The ability to compile Firefox in a wayland-only environment
+is a relatively new development for example.
+
+I understand if some users are unhappy - this is a non-issue. Users are free to
+continue to use Xorg and LibreSSL, the official repositories will simply no
+longer provide them (see #/faq#3.0).
+
+This post will be in bullet form (in non-exhaustive, changelog-like fashion)
+Check the git commit logs for a full list of changes. If you have any questions,
+or issues do not hesitate to get in touch (see #/contact) :).
+
+
+The distribution
+________________________________________________________________________________
+
+* As stated in previous posts, development will continue as normal from now on.
+ The official KISS Linux website is https://kisslinux.org and development is at
+ its original location on GitHub ($/kisslinux).
+
+* The IRC channel and subreddit will remain community operated (and are
+ therefore unaffiliated with the project). My focus will be solely on
+ development (what I love). I can be reached via #/contact
+
+* The community repository ($/kisslinux/community) will not reopen. KISS will
+ simply provide a small, extensible base for users. I want to instead foster
+ the growth of the community and the ecosystem of repositories/ideas *outside*
+ of the project (rather than shoehorning users into a set of rigid ideals).
+
+
+OpenSSL
+________________________________________________________________________________
+
+* Python 3.10+ drops support for LibreSSL (and all other "alternative") SSL
+ libraries (BoringSSL, older versions of OpenSSL, etc). This extends beyond
+ just the _ssl module as Python also makes use of the libcrypto library.
+
+ - https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0644/
+ - https://lwn.net/Articles/841685/
+ - https://lwn.net/Articles/841664/
+ - https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-644-require-openssl-1-1-or-newer/5584
+
+* NodeJS now uses the system's SSL library rather than bundling its own. NodeJS
+ does not support LibreSSL so it would compile its own OpenSSL and statically
+ link it. Expect a reduction in package size and compilation times.
+
+* LibreSSL breaks ABI biannually which causes some short-term pain downstream as
+ many packages need rebuilds. OpenSSL does not break ABI as often.
+
+ - https://abi-laboratory.pro/?view=timeline&l=libressl
+ - https://abi-laboratory.pro/?view=timeline&l=openssl
+
+* I was never comfortable with patches touching SSL code to fix
+ incompatibilities between LibreSSL and OpenSSL. I can not be sure that the
+ patches are actually /correct/ and do not introduce issues of their own.
+
+
+Wayland
+________________________________________________________________________________
+
+* The KISS Wayland environment is entirely free from Xorg (other than xkbcommon
+ and xkeyboard-config which were adopted also by wayland). Basically, we have
+ a full wayland environment with firefox (VAAPI, etc) and /no/ Xorg.
+
+* This environment is still free from dbus, polkit, (e)logind, pulseaudio, etc
+ and is fully functional without them (yes, sound works in the latest Firefox
+ with alsa). Wayland is not a pathway towards their inclusion.
+
+* The KISS wiki has been updated with initial Wayland pages. I expect this to
+ improve over time as contributions are made by myself and other users.
+ See #/wiki/wayland
+
+* The NVIDIA issues with Wayland are not applicable here as proprietary software
+ is unsupported by KISS. Regardless, the proprietary drivers do not run under
+ musl (nouveau works fine however).
+
+* Firefox (as of this post) requires patches to achieve a full Xorg-less build.
+ The patches are more or less just some #ifdefs and the issue is being worked
+ on upstream. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1661450
+
+* GTK+3 on Wayland requires schema files for gsettings to function (under Xorg
+ it makes use of Xresources). The GTK+3 package has been updated to fix this
+ issue. This is the cause of the notorious hand2 issue plaguing many Firefox
+ users on Wayland. https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=253742
+
+* Sway is the default display server and comes in three flavours.
+
+ 1. 'sway': The package as upstream intended. Requires the 'seatd' daemon to
+ function - comes with all the bells and whistles.
+
+ 2. 'sway-no-seat': No seat daemon requirement whatsoever. Rootless in the
+ same fashion as our xorg-server was (user in video group only, server
+ setgid input). Otherwise identical to 'sway'.
+
+ 3. 'sway-tiny': 'sway-no-seat' plus removal of additional dependencies on
+ pango, cairo, json-c and pcre. Provides only the sway binary. This is a
+ fork of sway for KISS so refrain from sending bug reports upstream.
+
+* Foot is the default terminal emulator and comes in two flavours. The regular
+ 'foot' package and a 'foot-pgo' package which does profile guided
+ optimizations inside a running wayland session.
+
+
+Repository Highlights
+________________________________________________________________________________
+
+* The fribidi package has been removed from the repositories. I have patched its
+ usage out of firefox, libass, pango and gtk+3. It is no longer needed by
+ anything.
+
+* Portability improvements to build files including full removal of non-standard
+ 'sed -i' usage and full removal of UNIX 'install' usage.
+
+* Reduced the size of the ncurses package from 14MB to 3MB by providing a
+ custom, trimmed-down terminfo database.
+
+* The 'mtdev' and 'libevdev' packages have been removed from the repositories
+ and are instead vendored in the 'libinput' package. The 'libevdev' dependency
+ has also been patched out of sway.
+
+
+Package Manager Changes
+________________________________________________________________________________
+
+* Simplified library path resolution in pkg_fix_deps().
+
+* Fixed confirmation prompt being skipped if packages were downgraded to
+ dependencies after resolution.
+
+* Added detection for circular dependencies. The package manager now aborts with
+ an error instead of crashing and burning.
+
+* Fixed packages not being installed in the right order during updates.
+
+* Removal of packages now includes broken directory symlinks. These were
+ previously skipped as their (safe) removal was tricky. The package manager
+ now queues all non-top-level directory symlinks and removes them at the end
+ of the process (but only if broken).
+
+* kiss-chroot now mounts /dev/shm, /dev/pts, /tmp and /run.
+
+* Fixed many issues with how paths were being used internally. The package
+ manager now ensures that any paths it joins together don't result in '//'
+ and don't end in (any number of) '/'.
+
+* Git clones are now use --filter=tree:0 instead of --depth=1 to allow usage
+ of 'git describe' which doesn't work with shallow clones. In other words,
+ a less shallow clone is now done to obtain slightly more information.
+
+* Removed many instances of unneeded function calls. The package manager would
+ look for repository files when unneeded (caller has the same information for
+ example).
+
+* Fixed handling of duplicate packages given to 'kiss b'. Duplicates are now
+ correctly filtered out and the total package count includes any filtering.
+
+* The package manager now shows you which packages are explicit (passed on the
+ command-line) or implicit (dependencies). You can now also see if any
+ explicit packages were downgraded to implicit.
+
+* Empty repositories (KISS_PATH=:::: (multiple colons in a row)) are now
+ correctly handled by the package manager.
+
+* Fixed issue where the package manager would randomly drop the wrong packages
+ from its build queue.
+
+* as_root() is now bypassed if the user is already root and the destination user
+ is also root (root -> root).
+
+* All applicable arguments to the package manager are now sorted by dependence.
+ This ensures the same order is passed to functions regardless of input.
+
+* Removed many uses of cd, subshells and pipes which were unnecessary. There
+ /should/ be a performance increase here.
+
+* Fixed rare global variable conflict between pkg_build and pkg_list.
+
+* kiss-chroot now displays every command it executes.
+
+* Arguments to the package manager now undergo stricter validation to prevent
+ invalid input. This will be further extended in the future.
+
+* When a package is missing files referenced in its manifest, the package
+ manager will now show all missing files rather than just the first one.
+
+* Checksum verification has been rewritten to remove awk, pipes and subshells.
+ This also fixed a rare bug where checksums with mismatched lines would always
+ be considered a match.
+
+* The checksum verification changes also open a pathway to supporting multiple
+ checksum types in the future (in a non-breaking way). Blake3 is something I
+ am very interested in.
+
+* Handling of sources has been rewritten with path finding logic unified for
+ use throughout the package manager (instead of being duplicated).
+
+* Fixed bug with tar extraction which collapsed nested directories of the same
+ name (fcft/fcft -> fcft). The package manager now skips directories it has
+ seen before (which also improves performance with large tarballs).
+
+* Fixed bug during package installation where a failed 'cp' of metadata could
+ cause the previous package's manifest to bleed into other packages in the
+ queue. Very bad in other words.
+
+* The package manager will now take KISS_COMPRESS into account when pulling
+ binaries out of the cache. If not found, a glob is used (old behavior).
+
+* Added pre-remove user hook.
+
+* Exposed build queue numbers to user hooks.
+
+* Fixed bug where insufficient permissions to the log directory would cause
+ confusing behavior on build completion.
+
+* The kiss-help utility now does a search when it cannot find a page by its
+ relative path. This means that 'kiss help wiki/software/firefox' and
+ 'kiss help firefox' result in the same page being opened.
+
+
+The Future
+________________________________________________________________________________
+
+* The next major change planned for the future is manual page consistency. All
+ packages will provide manual pages by default and this will be configurable by
+ users (per manual page, per package, etc). $/kisslinux/repo/issues/273
+
+* Support for additional checksum types /may/ be added. Early numbers using
+ blake3 show an immense runtime improvement over sha256 for medium to large
+ tarballs.
+
+* LLVM/Clang should become first class citizens and the repositories should be
+ fully functional when compiled with them. Users should have the option between
+ the two (though installation tarballs will continue to use GCC).
+
+* GCC will eventually include a rust codegen backend (and quite possibly a rust
+ frontend). These will be interesting to play around with once they become
+ usable.
+
+* The C package manager implementation is still in the works though its
+ development process has changed. A library will be created and slowly over
+ time individual components of the shell package manager will be replaced with
+ C equivalents (while the library matures at the same time).
+
+ Users will be able to opt-in to running parts of the package manager (the slow
+ components especially) in C. This allows users to benefit from faster
+ implementations of components as they become available.
+
+ Once the library reaches a good level of usability, a full C package manager
+ implementation will be made available alongside the shell implementation.
+
+ A test-suite will also be created and will be used both by the shell and C
+ package manager implementations to ensure that no regressions are made between
+ changes.
+
+* BearSSL is very interesting and I have experimented with a full bearssl
+ system (to the extent it is possible). A lot of work in this area is being
+ done by Michael Forney (including the support in curl, openssh, and possibly
+ python in the future).
+
+
+Closing words
+________________________________________________________________________________
+
+It's good to be back doing what I love. I am very excited for the future and I
+hope you are too. Stay tuned for more updates. :)
+
+
+ Dylan
+
+
+PS On another note, I will begin writing regular blog posts to my personal
+ domain (https://dy1an.xyz/) about KISS, technology and whatever else
+ interests me. If it tickles your fancy, check it out.
+
diff --git a/wiki/Archive/Blog/index.txt b/wiki/Archive/Blog/index.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ ________________________________________________________________________________
RSS Feed available here: @/blog/blog.xml
+- @/blog/20210711a KISS Linux
- @/blog/20210702a This month in KISS (#10)
- @/blog/20210609a This month in KISS (#9)
- @/blog/20210512a This month in KISS (#8)
diff --git a/wiki/Archive/News/20210703a/index.txt b/wiki/Archive/News/20210703a/index.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Subject Update
+From Dylan Araps <dylan@kisslinux.org>
+Date Sat, 3 July 2021 03:03:03 +0100
+
+Hello,
+
+The repositories are up-to-date and many changes have been made to the package
+manager. Development will continue as normal from here on.
+
+The Community repository is archived for the moment. The best course of action
+still needs to be sought.
+
+Will have more to say soon.
+
+ Dylan
+
diff --git a/wiki/Archive/News/20210708a/index.txt b/wiki/Archive/News/20210708a/index.txt
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+Subject Breaking changes
+From Dylan Araps <dylan@kisslinux.org>
+Date Thu, 8 July 2021 15:00:00 +0100
+
+Hello,
+
+KISS is moving to openssl and wayland. This is two breaking changes being made
+at the same time. The transition will not be automated in any way. Things will
+be volatile for a short period before settling down again.
+
+This change will take place in three days (11/07/2021) at 15:00:00 UTC.
+
+See:
+
+ - $/kisslinux/repo/pull/269
+ - $/kisslinux/repo/pull/266
+ - $/kisslinux/repo/issues/270
+ - $/kisslinux/repo/issues/263
+
+A blog post will be made shortly to announce the new changes to the
+repositories, the package manager and the distribution. Stay tuned. :)
+
+ Dylan
+
diff --git a/wiki/Archive/News/20210715a/index.txt b/wiki/Archive/News/20210715a/index.txt
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+Subject gzip -> pigz
+From Dylan Araps <dylan@kisslinux.org>
+Date Thu, 15 Jul 2020 11:00:00 +0100
+
+The gzip package will be removed 22/07/2021 and replaced with pigz. This is not
+a swap in gzip implementations as our gzip has been pigz in disguise for some
+time now. This is just a package rename.
+
+Some manual intervention is required. Run the following to transition before
+the date listed above.
+
+ kiss u
+ kiss b pigz
+ kiss i pigz
+ kiss a | grep ^pigz | kiss a -
+ kiss r gzip
+
+---
+
+ Dylan
diff --git a/wiki/Archive/News/20210723a/index.txt b/wiki/Archive/News/20210723a/index.txt
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+Subject A new home
+From Dylan Araps <dylan@kisslinux.org>
+Date Sat, 3 July 2021 03:03:03 +0100
+
+The KISS Linux website is now at https://kisslinux.org thanks to the generosity
+of the domain's previous owner. I received an email yesterday with an offer to
+donate the domain to the project of which I gracefully accepted.
+
+The .xyz domain will no longer be used. A 301 redirect has been setup to send
+traffic to the new domain. The email on the .xyz domain will remain active for
+a short while.
+
+I want to publicly thank this individual and their act of kindness.
+KISS Linux now has a new home.
+
+
+ Dylan
diff --git a/wiki/Archive/News/index.txt b/wiki/Archive/News/index.txt
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RSS Feed available here: @/news/news.xml
+- @/news/20210723a A new home
+- @/news/20210715a gzip -> pigz
- @/news/20210712a kiss-community's status
+- @/news/20210708a Breaking changes
+- @/news/20210703a Update
- @/news/20210519a Update on Dylan, IRC
- @/news/20210507a Kernel 5.12.0 build issue
- @/news/20210414a Mailing list announcement
