macOS support #131
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> Changed the default socket file paths.
There was a problem where the `gpg-agent` was not able to create the
socket files within the `~/.gnupg` folder that is symlinked to the
gocryptfs (1) container to securely (encrypted) store the GPG keys:
```
gpg: can’t connect to the agent: IPC connect call failed
```
This might be caused by either the macOS filesystem (APFS) that doesn't
support the creation of sockets (it works fine on other Arch Linux hosts
like `igloo`) or by restrictions due to read/write permissions that are
not passed through.
This solution/workaround is to change the default absolute file paths of
the socket files:
1. Created a `S.gpg-agent` and `S.gpg-agent.ssh` file manually in the
`$GNUPGPHOME` folder (defaults to `~/.gnupg`).
2. Added the `extra-socket` and `browser-socket` options in the
`gpg-agent.conf` file with the desired paths.
The created `S.gpg-agent` and `S.gpg-agent.ssh` files allow to use
values of environment variables via string interpolation (2), e.g.
`${HOME}`.
NOTE: It is important to make sure that the target folder exists and
the permissions are set to 700!
> macOS pinentry tool
Set the `pinentry-programm` option in the `gpg-agent.conf` file to use
pinentry-mac (3). Note that this requires the Homebrew formula
pinentry-mac (4) to be installed!
```conf
pinentry-program /usr/local/bin/pinentry-mac
```
> More references
* „gpg: can’t connect to the agent: IPC connect call failed“ (5)
* GNUPG bugtracker - “gpg-agent 2.1 socket and nfs /home“ (6)
* „How to configure GnuPG's S.gpg-agent socket location?“ (7)
References:
(1) https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs
(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_interpolation
(3) https://github.com/GPGTools/pinentry-mac
(4) https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/pinentry-mac
(5) https://michaelheap.com/gpg-cant-connect-to-the-agent-ipc-connect-call-failed
(6) https://dev.gnupg.org/T1752
(7) https://askubuntu.com/a/1053594
Epic: GH-131
Closes GH-132
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Created a new snowblock for launchd (1) snowblock includes a user agent defining a job to auto-mount the `sync` gocryptfs (2) volume located in the Dropbox (3) folder receiving the password stored in the macOS Keychain (4) via the macOS builtin system CLI tool `security`. It also includes a documentation to describe the requirements for the `com.arcticicestudio.igloo.launchd.igloosync` agent. It consists of information about dependencies and how to create the required `gocryptfs` password stored- and received via the macOS builtin system CLI tool `security`. Note that this is a macOS specific snowblock and therefore the `com.arcticicestudio.igloo.launchd.igloosync-dropbox.plist` agent and script file will only be linked for the `iceowl` host. References: (1) https://wiki.freebsd.org/launchd (2) https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs (3) https://www.dropbox.com (4) https://support.apple.com/guide/keychain-access/welcome/mac * http://www.launchd.info * launchd(1) * launchd.plist(5) * security(1) Epic: GH-131 Related to GH-58 Closes GH-133
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The management of installed Perl modules (1) on macOS is not as simple
and well thought through like with package managers on Linux systems,
e.g. via pacman (2) on Arch Linux (3). There are problems when
is comes to configuring the runtime path the modules have been installed
to even when using the most popular module manager called cpanminus (4).
This causes the Taskwarrior (5) plugin taskopen (6) fail to load because
the Perl core module `JSON` can't be found and loaded.
As a workaround a custom script has been implemented to create and open
a attached note of an task:
1. Used the `_get` (7) function of the Taskwarrior DOM
API (8) to extract any stored piece of information of an task. This
allows to receive the UUID of an task (9).
2. Created a custom `on` (open note) Taskwarrior alias (10) to run the
implemented custom script via the `execute` command.
The logic of the script follows the same like taskopen uses for default
notes:
* Using the UUID of an task (TODO) as the note filename.
* Simply passing the file to an editor (in this case Atom (11)) which
will…
* …creates a new file if it doesn't exist yet.
* …opens the file if it already exists.
Note that this script is not limited to macOS but can also be used for
any other Linux hosts!
References:
(1) http://www.cpan.org/modules
(2) https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman
(3) https://archlinux.org
(4) https://github.com/miyagawa/cpanminus
(5) https://taskwarrior.org
(6) https://github.com/ValiValpas/taskopen
(7) https://taskwarrior.org/docs/commands/_get.html
(8) https://taskwarrior.org/docs/dom.html
(9) https://taskwarrior.org/docs/ids.html
(10) https://taskwarrior.org/docs/terminology.html#alias
(11) https://atom.io
Epic: #131
Related to #110
Closes GH-134
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Since Tilix (1) is designed for Linux the most popular macOS terminal emulator iTerm2 (2) will be used as replacement. This snowflake should includes the exported JSON file of the created `igloo` profile. References: (1) https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix (2) https://www.iterm2.com Epic: GH-131 Related to GH-70 Closes GH-135
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Created a new snowblock for pip (1) containing the * `requirements.iceowl.txt` file (2) to track installed packages (3) and their versions of the `iceowl` host and . See the requirements.txt file format documentation (4) for details. * `pip.conf` file (5) for user specific configurations. References: (1) https://pypi.org/project/pip (2) https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/user_guide/#requirements-files (3) https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/installing-packages/#requirements-files (4) https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/reference/pip_install/#requirements-file-format (5) https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/user_guide/#config-file Related to epic GH-131 Closes GH-141
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> Epic: #131 This new snowflake for Homebrew (1) adds a `Brewfile` and a documentation to bootstrap the `Brewfile` with Homebrew Bundle (2). References: (1) https://brew.sh (2) https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle Bound to epic #131 Closes GH-140
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There are various snowblock/snowflake configurations that contain the `archbook` host (1) which doesn't exist anymore and can be replaced in most cases with the new `iceowl` host. In cases where the snowblock/snowflake is only targeted for Linux the `archbook` host should be removed to make it host independently. These can be updated when a new Linux host is introduced. References: (1) https://github.com/search?l=&q=archbook+repo%3Aarcticicestudio%2Figloo+created%3A%3E2018-09-18&type=Code Epic: GH-131 Closes GH-143
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This commit adds a configuration for the new `iceowl` host. Due to the usage of absolute paths in the config files of Timewarrior (1) e.g. for the color theme, there must be an config per host. References: (1) https://timewarrior.net Epic: GH-131 Closes GH-144
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This commit adds a new environment configuration (1) for the new `iceowl` host. The auto-completion scripts bundled with the Homebrew git (2) and bash (3) forumlas should also be imported. References: (1) https://github.com/arcticicestudio/igloo/tree/83bbc2530dbb21f7e734aaa9e33898d7c4c67d50/snowblocks/bash/config/env (2) https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/git (3) https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/bash Epic: GH-131 Closes GH-146
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Both snowblocks for Taskwarrior [1] and Timewarrior [2] are not required anymore since they have been replaced with my own custom 💙 Go [3] application that is currently private/closed source, but planned to be open sourced later on. Both tools are great and provide a lot of features, but are also kind of overloaded with unused and unnecessary functions. I also missed the possibility to integrate the data and API into my other Go applications as well as web-based projects with a quite more modern techstack (Protocol Buffers [4], NATS [5] Messaging, React SPA [6] etc.). Therefore the snowblocks have been removed while the data is still available through the Git repository history/logs [7]. [7]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Viewing-the-Commit-History [3]: https://go.dev [1]: https://taskwarrior.org [2]: https://timewarrior.net [5]: https://nats.io [4]: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers [6]: https://reactjs.org GH-253 Related to GH-248, GH-253, GH-131 Co-authored-by: Sven Greb <[email protected]>
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Both snowblocks for Taskwarrior [1] and Timewarrior [2] are not required anymore since they have been replaced with my own custom 💙 Go [3] application that is currently private/closed source, but planned to be open sourced later on. Both tools are great and provide a lot of features, but are also kind of overloaded with unused and unnecessary functions. I also missed the possibility to integrate the data and API into my other Go applications as well as web-based projects with a quite more modern techstack (Protocol Buffers [4], NATS [5] Messaging, React SPA [6] etc.). Therefore the snowblocks have been removed while the data is still available through the Git repository history/logs [7]. [7]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Viewing-the-Commit-History [3]: https://go.dev [1]: https://taskwarrior.org [2]: https://timewarrior.net [5]: https://nats.io [4]: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers [6]: https://reactjs.org Closes GH-253 Related to GH-248, GH-253, GH-131 Co-authored-by: Sven Greb <[email protected]>
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The pip [1] snowblock was only added in GH-141 in order to track installed packages [2] and their versions through a `requirements.txt` [3] file. The only tracked package was `taskw` [4] which was required for the taskwarrior snowblock [5] to allow to use custom hooks to interact with Taskwarrior API (the package is not available via Homebrew). Anyway, since both the taskwarrior [5] and timewarrior [6] snowblocks have also been decommissioned in GH-253 the "pip" snowblock is now also not required anymore and has therefore been removed while the data is still available through the Git repository history/logs [7]. [1]: https://pypi.org/project/pip [2]: https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/installing-packages/#requirements-files [3]: https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/user_guide/#requirements-files [4]: https://pypi.org/project/taskw [5]: https://github.com/arcticicestudio/igloo/tree/master/snowblocks/taskwarrior [6]: https://github.com/arcticicestudio/igloo/tree/master/snowblocks/timewarrior [7]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Viewing-the-Commit-History GH-255 Related to GH-248, GH-253, GH-131 Co-authored-by: Sven Greb <[email protected]>
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The pip [1] snowblock was only added in GH-141 in order to track installed packages [2] and their versions through a `requirements.txt` [3] file. The only tracked package was `taskw` [4] which was required for the taskwarrior snowblock [5] to allow to use custom hooks to interact with Taskwarrior API (the package is not available via Homebrew). Anyway, since both the taskwarrior [5] and timewarrior [6] snowblocks have also been decommissioned in GH-253 the "pip" snowblock is now also not required anymore and has therefore been removed while the data is still available through the Git repository history/logs [7]. [1]: https://pypi.org/project/pip [2]: https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/installing-packages/#requirements-files [3]: https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/user_guide/#requirements-files [4]: https://pypi.org/project/taskw [5]: https://github.com/arcticicestudio/igloo/tree/master/snowblocks/taskwarrior [6]: https://github.com/arcticicestudio/igloo/tree/master/snowblocks/timewarrior [7]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Viewing-the-Commit-History Closes GH-255 Related to GH-248, GH-253, GH-131 Co-authored-by: Sven Greb <[email protected]>
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archbookBecause of the regularly/periodically exchanged hardware at my workplace the MacBook Pro 11,2 (2016) got exchanged for one of the latest MacBook's Pro 15,2 (2018) with the touch bar.
I'm a really long time Arch Linux user and all of my systems are designed for it. Based on the information gathered by the community about the state of Linux on the MacBook Pro 2016 & 2017 almost everything works fine out-of-the-kernel (box) even on a MacBook Pro 14,1/2. Unfortunately Apple changed a lot of the internal hardware architecture again for the latest 15,1/2 models so that it is currently not possible to natively install Linux.
I've posted a detailed description in the original Gist about how I was able to create an ext4 filesystem partition anyway and copying a complete Arch Linux installation (full
/filesystem structure) to it, but know I know it won't boot (partition is not found regardless of whether using LABEL, UUID or PARTUUID) because the SSD is not recognized by Linux due to these new creepy NVMe controller. See Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux#71 for details and more information.The previous host
archbookwill be removed from the whole repository and replaced by the new host callediceowlthat currently runs on an MacBook Pro 15,1 (15-inch, 2018) with macOS High Sierra version 10.13.6 (2,2 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB 2400 MHz DDR4, Radeon Pro 560X 4096 MB and Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB).The further proceed
I will switch to macOS for my daily job business as the host named
iceowl. Maybe I'll try to use Parallels Desktop Lite (free for Linux) that uses native macOS API's (GPU pass-through) for better performance than VirtualBox/QEMU etc. which allows to use Arch Linux in full-screen with multiple monitor support, but this is just experimental to gather some info about the performance and usability.The goal and issue progress tracking
This regularly updated epic documents the process and issue's progress to reach the goal of fully customizing macOS to fit my needs and
linuxify/unixifyit as close as possible.Homebrew
To keep control over the required and installed software the Homebrew package manager will be used including a
Brewfilehandled by Homebrew Bundle.macOS Defaults
To manipulate many hidden features and
plistfiles of stock macOS and other third-party apps the system CLI tool defaults will be used. See default-write.com as reference.iTerm2
Since Tilix is designed for Linux the most popular macOS terminal emulator iTerm2 will be used as replacement.
launchd
As equivalent to systemd the builtin service manager launchd will be used to create user-specific jobs provided via user agents and daemons.
Other issues bound to this epic
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