kupferbootstrap/docs/source/config.rst

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Configuration
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Kupferbootstrap uses `toml <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOML>`_ for its configuration file.
The file can either be edited manually or managed via the :doc:`cli/config` subcommand.
You can quickly generate a default config by running :code:`kupferbootstrap config init -N`.
File Location
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The configuration is stored in ``~/.config/kupfer/kupferbootstrap.toml``, where ``~`` is your user's home folder.
Kupferbootstrap needs to create a number of folders, e.g. to download ``PKGBUILDs.git`` and store binary packages.
By default, all of those folders live inside ``~/.cache/kupfer/``.
See also the ``[paths]`` section in your config.
Sections
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A config file is split into sections like so:
.. code-block:: toml
[pkgbuilds]
git_repo = "https://gitlab.com/kupfer/packages/pkgbuilds.git"
git_branch = "dev"
[pacman]
parallel_downloads = 3
Here, we have two sections: ``pkgbuilds`` and ``pacman``.
Flavours
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Flavours are preset collections of software and functionality to enable,
i.e. desktop environments like `Gnome <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME>`_
and `Phosh <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosh>`_.
Profiles
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The last section and currently the only one with subsections is the ``profiles`` section.
A profile is the configuration of a specific device image. It specifies (amongst others):
* the device model
* the flavour (desktop environment)
* the host- and user name
* extra packages to install
Using a profile's ``parent`` key,
you can inherit settings from another profile.
This allows you to easily keep a number of slight variations of the same target profile around
without the need to constantly modify your Kupferbootstrap configuration file.
You can easily create new profiles with
`kupferbootstrap config profile init <../cli/config/#kupferbootstrap-config-profile-init>`_.
Here's an example:
.. code:: toml
[profiles]
current = "graphical"
[profiles.default]
parent = ""
device = "oneplus-enchilada"
flavour = "barebone"
pkgs_include = [ "wget", "rsync", "nano", "tmux", "zsh", "pv", ]
pkgs_exclude = []
hostname = "kupferphone"
username = "prawn"
size_extra_mb = 800
[profiles.graphical]
parent = "default"
flavour = "phosh"
pkgs_include = [ "firefox", "tilix", "gnome-tweaks" ]
size_extra_mb = "+3000"
[profiles.hades]
parent = "graphical"
flavour = "phosh"
hostname = "hades"
[profiles.recovery]
parent = "default"
flavour = "debug-shell"
[profiles.beryllium]
parent = "graphical"
device = "xiaomi-beryllium-ebbg"
flavour = "gnome"
hostname = "pocof1"
The ``current`` key in the ``profiles`` section controlls which profile gets used by Kupferbootstrap by default.
The first subsection (``profiles.default``) describes the `default` profile
which gets created by `config init <../cli/config/#kupferbootstrap-config-init>`_.
Next, we have a `graphical` profile that defines a couple of graphical programs for all but the `recovery` profile,
since that doesn't have a GUI.
``size_extra_mb``
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Note how ``size_extra_mb`` can either be a plain integer (``800``) or a string,
optionally leading with a plus sign (``+3000``),
which instructs Kupferbootstrap to add the value to the parent profile's ``size_extra_mb``.
``pkgs_include`` / ``pkgs_exclude``
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Like ``size_extra_mb``, ``pkgs_include`` will be merged with the parent profile's ``pkgs_include``.
To exclude unwanted packages from being inherited from a parent profile, use ``pkgs_exclude`` in the child profile.
.. hint::
``pkgs_exclude`` has no influence on Pacman's dependency resolution.
It only blocks packages during image build that would usually be explicitly installed
due to being listed in a parent profile or the selected flavour.