After 1 year of incubation under the Funtoo Foundation, the Macaroni OS has now its domain macaronios.org and its infrastructure. Really, thanks to the Funtoo Foundation and Daniel Robbins for its support that helped to Macaroni OS to be here today.

From the infrastructure aspect nothing is changed, all compilation tasks are executed over MottainaiCI cluster but with less resource power for now.

We hope that the community will help us to maintain the infrastructure costs with donations over our Github Sponsor or with VMs donations for compilation.

New Github Organization

With the review of the Macaroni OS domain, it’s been created a new and independent GitHub organization macaroni-os and migrated all Git repositories there.

Domain migration and users impacts

The old domain *.macaroni.funtoo.org will expire soon, the existing users that are yet with the repository geaaru-repo-index configured with the Github URL will receive automatically the upgrade of the repository/* packages.

$# luet repo update
ℹ️  Repository:              geaaru-repo-index Priority:   1 Type:  http Revision:   2
ℹ️  Repository:               macaroni-commons Priority:   2 Type:  http Revision: 117
ℹ️  Repository:                macaroni-funtoo Priority:   2 Type:  http Revision: 620
ℹ️  Repository:               mottainai-stable Priority:   1 Type:  http Revision:  55

$# luet upgrade
ℹ️  Repository:              geaaru-repo-index Priority:   1 Type:  http Revision:   2
ℹ️  Repository:               macaroni-commons Priority:   2 Type:  http Revision: 117
ℹ️  Repository:                macaroni-funtoo Priority:   2 Type:  http Revision: 620
ℹ️  Repository:               mottainai-stable Priority:   1 Type:  http Revision:  55
🤔  Computing upgrade, please hang tight... 💤 
🌏 Using solver implementation  solverv2 .
🌎 Completed compute upgrade analysis in 23323842 µs.
+-------------------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------------+---------+
| PACKAGE                             | NEW VERSION | OLD VERSION | REPOSITORY        | LICENSE |
+-------------------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------------+---------+
| repository/geaaru-repo-index        | 20230118    | 20220819    | geaaru-repo-index |         |
| repository/macaroni-commons         | 20230118    | 20211210    | geaaru-repo-index |         |
| repository/macaroni-funtoo          | 20230118    | 20211210    | geaaru-repo-index |         |
| repository/mottainai-stable         | 20230118    | 20220318    | geaaru-repo-index |         |
+-------------------------------------+-------------+-------------+-------------------+---------+
By going forward, you are also accepting the licenses of the packages that you are going to install in your system.
Do you want to continue with this operation? [y/N]: 

Instead, the users with the new configuration could receive the new repositories address on change the content of the the /etc/luet/luet.yaml (if the geaaru-repo-index is configured inline and not through the repository config file or editing the file /etc/luet/repos.conf.d/geaaru-repo-index.yml with this content:

- name: "geaaru-repo-index"
  description: "Geaaru Repository index"
  type: "http"
  enable: true
  cached: true
  priority: 1
  urls:
  - "https://cdn.macaronios.org/mottainai/geaaru-repo-index"
  - "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/geaaru/repo-index/gh-pages"

After that to get the new updates just run:

$# macaronictl etc-update

The map with the changes of the URL is available here.

What next?

Hereinafter, our hot points for the near future:

1. We working to complete the review of the luet installer and his algorithms to reduce the memory usage, rewrite the solver and introduce the packages mask concept. This will permit us to begin on working a Macaroni release for ARM (Banana PI, Raspberry).

2. The terragon release will drop the support to Python 3.7 to leave active only Python 3.9.

3. Create a full and clear documentation of all Macaroni features.

4. When the first two points will be reached will start the integration of macaroni-ffs project related to the Funtoo FFS technology and permit users to have easy the toolchains for compilation

A lot of things are in our plan, stay tuned!

Additional thanks

On setup of the new infrastructure, I want to thank the all people who helped me in setting up the Cloudflare services in about two days. Really, thanks.