Improve (speedup and fixup) user local build experience - #873

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vishal/avoid-sudo

Commits on Sep 23, 2026

Avoid sudo in assemble script
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Avoid using sudo
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Really cleanup when user says "just clean"
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Force keygen - why fail when the user or CI just wants to do it?
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Rework to use run0 instead of podman
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Merge branch 'main' into vishal/avoid-sudo
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Commits on Sep 24, 2026

Commits on Sep 26, 2026

Merge branch 'main' into vishal/avoid-sudo
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Go back to using podman instead of sudo or run0
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Merge branch 'vishal/avoid-sudo' of github.com:elementary/os into vishal/avoid-sudo
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Revert assemble-iso.sh changes merged in separate PR
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Undo changes to module confs
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Try alternate approach with sudo back in the picture
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Commits on Sep 27, 2026

Merge branch 'main' into vishal/avoid-sudo
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Merge branch 'main' into vishal/avoid-sudo
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Add fzf to README.md runtime deps list for just chooser
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Fix mkosi.output perms for other just recipes
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Mark some Justfile recipes private
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Merge branch 'vishal/avoid-sudo' of github.com:elementary/os into vishal/avoid-sudo
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Hide "just genkey" recipe and update README.md
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Fix "checksum-repo" and "checksum-ext" recipes CI-only failures
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Use sudo for checksum recipes so wide open chmod access is moot
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I give up so bring back the chown and chmod lines
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Commits on Sep 28, 2026

Merge branch 'main' into vishal/avoid-sudo
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Preserve user's HOME environment variable
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Fix 'just genkey' failure due to unset ORIGINAL_USER_HOME env var
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Commits on Sep 29, 2026

Don't re-genkey everytime for future secureboot/PCR
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Preserve user HOME as same env var name
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Use enclosing double-quotes for podman binds
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Commits on Sep 30, 2026

Merge branch 'main' into vishal/avoid-sudo
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Merge branch 'main' into vishal/avoid-sudo
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Preserve flatpak cache from mkosi chroot across rebuilds (#898)
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Merge branch 'main' into vishal/avoid-sudo
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Cache (rsync) only the flatpak repo folder
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Remove old, unused, commented and unloved line of code
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Merge branch 'vishal/avoid-sudo' of github.com:elementary/os into vishal/avoid-sudo
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Don't use explicit HOME env var
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Enclose only what's sufficient in double quotes
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Don't clean mkosi.output on every build
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Use default local user mkosi dirs and cleanscript
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Keep default local user mkosi dirs
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Update new gitignores to ignore everything
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Copy latest iso to 'isos' folder to save it from mkosi.clean
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Add empty isos folder and its .gitignore
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Oops! Restore auto-bump mkosi build option
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Clean leftovers in 'just clean' recipe
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Commits on Oct 1, 2026

Copy ISO only for local build outside CI
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Don't override DNS - use host DNS config
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Avoid sudo once again
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Restore original checksum-repo and checksum-ext recipes
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