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		vaylian 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Systemd ParticleOS How does the update process work? Do you run pacman -Syu and then bake the result into the next image with mkiso?

DaanDeMeyer 10 months ago [–]

mkosi runs pacman for you and then packs up the result as a disk image. It also builds a unified kernel image and does a bunch of signing. The new /usr partition and UKI are then installed with systemd-sysupdate.

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