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20200315

  • Initial release

20200316

  • Switched to using the official installation ISO disk image. This is supported using a boot command to enable SSH.
  • This is the first version that can be built from this repo. Earlier commits in this project don't contain the required customized ISO image.

20200328

  • Added irqbalance
  • Disabled CPU exploit mitigations
  • Disabled kernel watchdogs
  • Split apart and refactored scripts

20200529

  • Removed obsolete virtualbox-guest-modules-arch package

20200708

  • Fix iso_checksum syntax error
  • Update Arch ISO disk to 2020.07.01

20200709

  • Fix issues regarding multi-core CPUs

20200807

  • Update Arch ISO disk to 2020.08.01

20200821

  • Update to work with new reflector version

20200904

  • Update Arch ISO disk to 2020.09.01
  • Update and clean up config files
  • Remove irqbalance: When a VM does not use host resources directly, irqbalance isn't needed for VMs.
  • Remove man

20201003

  • Update Arch ISO disk to 2020.10.01
  • Extend boot timeout to 1 minute. (Boot commands were typed too early.)
  • Boot command with HTTP server URL didn't work anymore due to zsh treating the colon differently now.

20201101

  • Update Arch ISO disk to 2020.11.01
  • Switch to mirror.rackspace.com for ISO download. Official Arch archive only contains new ISOs after a few days.
  • Extend boot timeout to 2 minutes. (Boot commands were typed too early.)

20201204

  • Update Arch ISO disk to 2020.12.01
  • Switch to neovim Use nvim instead of vim to edit files
  • Include man & info
  • Let zsh source global /etc/profile
  • Let reflector pick 50 mirrors instead of 25
  • Globally set XDG base directory variables
  • Disable 3D acceleration (Not needed for a CLI box)

20210101

  • Update Arch ISO disk to 2021.01.01

20210201

  • Update Arch ISO disk to 2021.02.01
  • Change SSH bootstrap script to restart services instead of just starting them. New version of Arch ISO starts SSH server on boot.

20210301

  • Update Arch ISO disk to 2021.03.01
  • Switch to a more traditional neovim config: Specifically, line numbers and the line cursor are now disabled.
  • Change SSH bootstrap script to completely avoid dhcpcd as new ISOs use systemd-resolved instead.
  • Replace UUIDs with filesystem labels for bootloader config
  • Make initramfs even smaller

20210402

  • Build system: The build process now automatically looks for the newest Arch installer ISO. This is done using a wrapper shell script, therefore a working Bash interpreter is required as well as curl, grep and head.
  • Completely drop fallback initramfs Fallback initramfs isn't needed for a Vagrant-style "throwaway VM".
  • Enable network options UseDomains and UseNTP.

20210501

  • Drop processor ucode updates as they aren't needed for VMs
  • Add script for deleting machine id after installation. Systemd will automatically generate one on first boot.
  • Run Reflector on first boot
  • Fully disable IPv6

20210602

  • Remove mirrorlist upgrade pacman hook It doesn't make sense to run Reflector on the old mirrorlist, then deleting the new one. Also it is quite a time hog when running updates.

20210801

  • Fix editing of pacman and locale config

20210903

  • Switch Packer to HCL-based configuration
  • Miscellaneous improvements for build system

20211101

  • Reduce mirrorlist to 10 mirrors
  • Update sshd config
  • Update general VM options

20220515

  • Major refactor of build system
  • Switch from neovim to vim
  • Add nano
  • Use oh-my-zsh ZSH config
  • Add base-devel packages
  • Add pikaur, pacaur and yay AUR helpers

20220702

  • Fix line endings

    Config files should use LF-only line endings.

20220824

  • Turn off ZSH completion progress dots
  • Enable generation of en_US.UTF-8 locale

20220904

20221001

  • Add checksum calculation to build
  • Switch to sha256sums for ISO download