The separate smoke-vm job with `needs: build-iso` required round-tripping
the 1.5 GB ISO through actions/upload-artifact + download-artifact. v3
on Forgejo has a known issue where large artifacts stall at 0.0% in the
download step — the smoke run hung today with endless "Total file count:
1 ---- Processed file #0 (0.0%)" output.
Since both jobs run on the same self-hosted runner (host mode, same
workspace available), there was never a real need for the artifact
indirection. Inlining as a step after the artifact upload reuses the
ISO already in iso/out/ and skips the download entirely.
step-level continue-on-error preserves the original guarantee that a
VM-side flake doesn't mark the ISO build red.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
After build-iso, a new smoke-vm job uploads the freshly built ISO to
the test Proxmox at 192.168.178.165 via PVE API token, boots it in a
fresh VM (VMID range 9000-9099, MAC derived from commit SHA so the
runner can find the DHCP IP by scanning the LAN), and curls :5000 to
confirm the webinstaller answers HTTP 200. Last 5 smoke VMs + their
ISOs are kept for post-mortem; older ones are purged. continue-on-error
on the smoke job so a VM-side flake doesn't mark the ISO build red.
Shortens the feedback loop on ISO regressions from "next manual VM
test session" (days) to "next push" (minutes) — the 2026-04-15/16 VM
sessions each found real boot-time bugs that unit tests missed.
Docs at docs/smoke-vm.md. Requires Forgejo secrets PVE_TEST_HOST and
PVE_TEST_TOKEN (dedicated smoke@pve!ci PVE token, privilege-separated).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A lot moved since the last docs sweep. Catching everything up in one
batch so a newcomer (or future us) reading the repo isn't lied to.
**README.md roadmap:**
- Walking-skeleton live ISO: upgraded from "screens 1-3 work
end-to-end" to "install runs to completion on a VM and the installed
system logs in and runs `docker ps` without sudo".
- 26.0-alpha release: dropped the "deferred" note — its blocker
(archinstall not completing) is gone; just needs a re-tag when we
like the installer copy.
- Added an explicit "ISO-build in CI" line for the new
`.forgejo/workflows/build-iso.yml`.
- Split the old "mDNS + local CA" item: mDNS is live (hostname baked
in, avahi/nss-mdns in the image), HTTPS via local CA still open.
- Noted post-install reboot button, progress bar, archinstall 4.x
schema work, console welcome, custom_commands docker group join in
the wizard milestone bullet.
**docs/runner-setup.md:**
- Full rewrite for the docker-outside-of-docker architecture we
actually run now (was still describing the DinD sidecar setup).
- Documents the `/data` symlink on the host that makes host-mode
`-v /data/…:/work` resolve — the non-obvious piece that took the
longest to nail down today.
- Describes the two runtime modes (`ubuntu-latest:docker://…` for CI,
`self-hosted:host` for build-iso) and why each exists.
- Adds the `upload-artifact@v3` pin note — v4+ fails on Forgejo with
`GHESNotSupportedError`.
**ops/forgejo-runner/compose.yml + config.yml:**
- Compose now matches what's actually running: DooD (no DinD sidecar),
runs as root so apk can install nodejs + docker-cli at startup,
/var/run/docker.sock bind-mounted.
- Config gets the three explicit label mappings and DooD
`docker_host` + `valid_volumes`.
**.forgejo/workflows/build-iso.yml:**
- Added `paths-ignore` for docs/website/*.md so doc-only commits don't
kick off 5-min ISO rebuilds. Code + ISO overlay changes still
trigger.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Forgejo Actions only speaks the GHES-compatible @actions/artifact
protocol; upload-artifact@v4+ insists on the newer API and fails with
`GHESNotSupportedError`. Pin to v3, which uses the old protocol that
Forgejo implements.
Good news: the ISO itself built end-to-end in ~5m on the runner
(DooD + /data symlink resolved the path-mismatch). Only the upload
failed, and this pins it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Now that the runner uses docker-outside-of-docker, volume mounts in
`build.sh` (`docker run -v \$REPO_ROOT:/work ...`) are interpreted by
host docker — so `\$REPO_ROOT` must be a real host path. When the job
runs inside a job container, `\$REPO_ROOT` is only valid in the job
container's filesystem namespace and host docker can't find it, hence
`bash: /work/iso/build.sh: No such file or directory`.
Fix: switch `runs-on` to `self-hosted`. Forgejo-runner exposes that
label out of the box and, with no matching container image mapping,
runs steps directly on the runner VM. Checkout writes to a real host
path; `docker run -v …` then mounts a path both the outer CLI and
host docker agree on.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Forgejo-runner's valid_volumes already injects /var/run/docker.sock
into every job container, so the explicit `container.volumes` mount
in the workflow triggered 'Duplicate mount point' and the job never
started. Removed — DOCKER_HOST env is enough.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The DinD setup was the wrong tool here: forgejo-runner runs on host
docker, but it spawned jobs via the DinD sidecar — meaning jobs
were isolated inside DinD's own docker namespace and couldn't reach
`docker-in-docker` by hostname, and couldn't see the
`forgejo-runner_default` network (which only exists on host docker).
Switched the runner (compose.yml + data/config.yml) to talk directly
to host docker via `/var/run/docker.sock` and added it to the host
`docker` group (GID 988) so the non-root runner user can use the
socket. `valid_volumes` now whitelists the socket so job containers
can mount it too.
Workflow now mounts /var/run/docker.sock into the job container and
points DOCKER_HOST at that unix socket. `./iso/build.sh` then runs
its inner `docker run --privileged archlinux:latest` against the
host daemon — no nested docker.
Tradeoff: this is less isolated than DinD (jobs have full host docker
access — they could spawn arbitrary containers), but on a dedicated
single-user build VM the DooD simplification is worth it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
forgejo-runner 6.4 filters `--network` out of `container.options`, so
the workflow-level override was silently ignored and the job kept
landing on a per-task network where `docker-in-docker` didn't resolve.
Fixed at the right level by editing the runner's `/data/config.yml`
(`container.network: "forgejo-runner_default"`) and restarting the
forgejo-runner container — every job now joins the shared network so
DOCKER_HOST=tcp://docker-in-docker:2375 just works.
Workflow trimmed back to only what's needed: DOCKER_HOST env pin. The
default runner image (catthehacker/ubuntu:act-latest) already has the
docker CLI.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- build-iso: the job container was on a per-job docker network, so
`docker-in-docker` (the DinD sidecar hostname on
`forgejo-runner_default`) didn't resolve. Pin the container to that
shared network via `container.options: --network forgejo-runner_default`.
catthehacker/ubuntu:act-latest already has the docker CLI, so drop
the apt-get step.
- ci.yml markdown-links: forgejo's action mirror at data.forgejo.org
doesn't carry `lycheeverse/lychee-action`, so `uses:` was 404ing
before the step could even run (rendering continue-on-error moot).
Fully-qualified GitHub URL bypasses the mirror.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three things are broken on origin/main as of 6114cb2, all found in one
red CI run:
- build-iso workflow couldn't reach docker. forgejo-runner's config
sets `docker_host: tcp://docker-in-docker:2375` but that env doesn't
propagate into job containers on `runs-on: ubuntu-latest`, and the
default job image has no docker CLI. Fix: pin `DOCKER_HOST` on the
job and apt-install `docker.io` before invoking `iso/build.sh`.
- Two tests asserted on the pre-4.x archinstall schema:
`creds["root_password"]` (now `!root-password`) and
`cfg["disk_config"]["device"]` / `cfg["users"]` (users moved to
creds; disk_config is now a full `default_layout` dict). Rewrote
the tests to reflect 4.x reality and monkeypatched `build_disk_config`
since its real body imports archinstall, which isn't on CI.
- Ruff flagged one line of `PROGRESS_PHASES` at 107 chars — collapsed
the column alignment. `ruff format` pulled in a couple of cosmetic
expansions in spawn_archinstall and the tests that had been drifting.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds `.forgejo/workflows/build-iso.yml` that runs `./iso/build.sh` and
uploads the resulting ISO as a `furtka-iso` artifact (retained 14 days).
Triggers on `push: branches: [main]` and `workflow_dispatch` only —
feature branches don't pay the 15-20 min build cost. `concurrency`
cancels older runs of the same ref so only the most recent push
produces an artifact.
This is what Robert asked for: push change → download ISO from the
Forgejo run → test without needing a laptop to build.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
