Arch Linux ISO release utilities

Prerequisites

Install required packages

pacman -Syu --needed just archiso rsync mktorrent

Configure your signing keys

Create an .env file containing your GPG key. Example:

GPGKEY='3E80CA1A8B89F69CBA57D98A76A5EF9054449A5C'
GPGSENDER='Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.org>'
ARCHIVEDIR='/home/pierre/data/archlinux/iso/'

In addition to this you need a key pair which is accepted by PIXE. The files need to be named codesign.crt and codesign.key.

Creating a new ISO image

• Run just all to create all artifacts. This will create the ISO image and tar files.
• Optionally run just run-iso to test the ISO with Qemu.
• Upload the release to repos.archlinux.org with just upload-release. This will just upload the artifacts into a temporary directory but not publish them.
• Log into archlinux.org/login and create a new release entry using the Archweb Admin. Use the information shown by the build process or manually re-run just show-info. It is good practice to keep the field Available unchecked until the ISO image has been published and most mirrors had time to sync it. You may use just copy-torrent to copy the base64 encoded torrent file into your clipboard.
• As we only like to keep the last three ISO releases remove the oldest one from Archweb Admin. Then remove the actual files from the mirror by running just remove-release <version>.
• To actually publish a release and have it sync to mirror run just publish.
• Optionally run just archive to move build artifacts into the configured ARCHIVEDIR.