[artix-general] Successful Artix installation through the WIP calamares-online installer

[torturedfanatic at keemail.me]

Hi.

I am writing to report a successful installation of a base Artix Linux system through the work-in-progress calamares-online graphical installer.

The installer initially crashed and failed while bootstrapping the base and elogind packages.  
It seems the issue was caused by some package key-related problems. Pacman did not recognize the signatures and refused to install anything, which caused the crash.

I was able to resolve the issue in two ways...


Method 1. Disabling Package Signing - 

I opened /etc/pacman.conf in the installer medium and set...

    SigLevel = Never 

This is a quick workaround but obviously, not secure. Would recommend ABSOLUTELY switching back to the default...

    SigLevel = Required DatabaseOptional

IMMEDIATELY post-installation.


Method 2. Regenerating pacman keys - 

I don't exactly remember what order I did the following in. This involved first clearing the pacman cache and rebuilding it...

    pacman -Scc && pacman -Syy

then opening /etc/pacman.conf and setting... 

    SigLevel = Never 

then installing the 'artix-keyring' package and manually deleting this directory... 

    /etc/pacman.d/gnupg

After which, I executed... 

    pacman-key --init && pacman-key --populate artix 

Then I reverted the changes to /etc/pacman.conf,

    SigLevel = Required DatabaseOptional


Both ways, I managed to get the installer working, It no longer crashed on the download phase. User setup, partitioning and package selection all functioned flawlessly.

One design choice I found a bit strange was the --noprogressbar option in the installer log while pacman installs the required packages. 

In my personal opinion, the log SHOULD display progress of which packages are currently being downloaded. (Unless it clutters up the logfile, which is totally understandable.)

In any case, I just wanted to report that the online installer works with just that minor workaround to download packages.

Cheers.

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