Detect Darwin automatically and, on macOS, install the Xcode Command
Line Tools and Homebrew as the first actions before any package work.
Route system packages through brew (formulae and casks), skip the
Flatpak section entirely, refuse to run as root (brew won't), and
adjust custom-package URL/install-path templates with new {os}, {os_go},
{os_zig}, {os_nvim} substitutions. Architecture detection remains
dynamic on both Apple Silicon and Intel.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01R2CnCeEBYT5QoHiwxczDNq
- Add zsh to SYSTEM_PACKAGES
- Detect RHEL-family vs Debian-family from /etc/os-release ID/ID_LIKE
(falls back to PKG_MGR if os-release is unreadable)
- ensure_zsh_default sets zsh as the invoking user's login shell after
system install: usermod -s on RHEL-family (chsh under default
authselect refuses other-user changes), chsh -s elsewhere; SUDO_USER
is preferred so sudo invocations target the real user
- Add oh-my-zsh to CUSTOM_PACKAGES; the installer runs the official
unattended script (requires zsh + git, which are already installed by
this point) and rewrites ZSH_THEME to "gnzh" in ~/.zshrc
- As a final step, run 'zsh -c "source ~/.zshrc"' to validate the rc
file (the user's interactive shell is unaffected — they need a new
terminal to pick up the new default shell)
pip is unusual among the custom packages because it ships inside CPython
itself, so it doesn't need a URL or archive. The handler bootstraps it
from the standard-library wheel via 'python3 -m ensurepip --upgrade' and
then self-upgrades to the latest version. Detection uses
'python3 -m pip --version' instead of a filesystem path.
- Move SYSTEM_PACKAGES, FLATPAK_PACKAGES, and CUSTOM_PACKAGES into
formatted_packages.py as typed Python data; drop the bespoke parser
- Custom package URLs are now string templates with {version}, {arch},
and {arch_go} substitutions, so the same entry works on x86_64 and
aarch64 without hand-editing the URL
- Add best-effort latest-version resolvers for Go, Firecracker, and Zig
(using go.dev JSON, GitHub releases, and ziglang index.json
respectively); on any failure the pinned version + sha256 are used
and the fallback is logged
- Make Neovim's archive name and install dir arch-aware (x86_64/arm64)
- Document that --no-gui skips the entire Flatpak section, including
installing flatpak itself
Claude
JMR-dev