The build was failing at verify-overlay-integrity.sh with:
ERROR: dangling patch symlink: recipes/core/base/redox.patch -> .../local/patches/base/redox.patch
ERROR: missing critical patch: local/patches/base/redox.patch
The mega-patch (100MB+) was gitignored and got lost, while the
dangling symlink at recipes/core/base/ is leftover infrastructure.
The base recipe (recipes/core/base/recipe.toml) does NOT reference
redox.patch - it uses individual P*.patch files (P0-P9). The mega-patch
was abandoned 2026-04-30 in favor of ~100 individual patches.
Changes:
- Remove dangling recipes/core/base/redox.patch symlink
- Update verify-overlay-integrity.sh to drop obsolete references
(redox.patch in base) and consolidate redbear-live-full into the
current critical configs list
- Remove 'local/patches/base/redox.patch' from .gitignore (it is gone
for good; never resurrect the mega-patch approach)
- Document NEVER-GITIGNORE-CRITICAL-INFRASTRUCTURE policy in AGENTS.md
(replaces the obsolete 'Large Patch Files' section that described
the now-removed chunks/reassembly approach)
- Add Linux reference tree migration note (2.1GB tree should eventually
be tracked via sparse submodule or gitea mirror)
make distclean destroyed prefix/ which was entirely gitignored.
Now prefix/*.tar.gz (clang/gcc/rust toolchain, ~408MB) is tracked.
Recovery after distclean: git checkout + make prefix (extract + build relibc).
prefix/.gitignore allows only *.tar.gz files; extracted directories,
relibc-install, and sysroot remain untracked (regenerable).
redox.patch is 556MB, exceeding GitHub's 100MB file size limit.
Split into 7 chunks of ~90MB each under local/patches/base/redox-patch-chunks/.
Reassembly script: local/patches/base/reassemble-redox-patch.sh.
Added redox.patch to .gitignore to prevent future push failures.
Only local/recipes/kde/kwin/recipe.toml and README.md remain tracked.
gitignore now uses ** to match all subdirectories.
git grep -I kwin_wayland_wrapper returns 0 text matches.
Oracle found kwin_wayland_wrapper in tracked upstream KWin v6.3.4
source files. These are not Red Bear code — they are auto-extracted
by the recipe. Added to .gitignore per project policy.
Packages/ is the canonical binary package repository for Red Bear OS.
Contains stage.pkgar copies of all built packages (91 files).
New scripts:
- local/scripts/sync-packages.sh: syncs built pkgar → Packages/
- make packages-sync: run sync
- make packages-list: list package count
Future: cache-auto will auto-sync to Packages/ after each build.
Red Bear is a fork/overlay on top of Redox. The upstream build
system wasn't designed for forks — it loses all cached stages on
make clean with no recovery path.
This commit adds a git-tracked build cache:
- local/cache/pkgar/{pkg}/stage.pkgar — per-package cache files
- cache-sync.sh: sync built packages → git-tracked cache
- cache-sync.sh --restore: restore cache → recipe targets
- cache-sync.sh --commit: sync + git commit
- Auto-restore before build, auto-sync after build
Cache survives: make clean, make distclean, git clone, upstream rebase.
Recovery from clean: seconds (restore from git) vs hours (full rebuild).
Add local/scripts/fetch-sources.sh for fetching sources by category (core, libs, tools) instead of by config. Fix .gitignore to only track our hand-written source code (branding, core, drivers, gpu, system, wayland, kde categories), excluding fetched vendor source like MC's ported source tree.
Commit Red Bear OS icon and loading background images to the branding recipe source. Update .gitignore to exclude fetched tarballs, build artifacts, and target/ dirs inside local/recipes/ while preserving tracked source code.
Derivative of Redox OS (https://www.redox-os.org) adding:
- AMD GPU driver (amdgpu) via LinuxKPI compat layer
- ext4 filesystem support (ext4d scheme daemon)
- ACPI fixes for AMD bare metal (x2APIC, DMAR, IVRS, MCFG)
- Custom branding (hostname, os-release, boot identity)
Build system is full upstream Redox with RBOS overlay in local/.
Patches for kernel, base, and relibc are symlinked from local/patches/
and protected from make clean/distclean. Custom recipes live in
local/recipes/ with symlinks into the recipes/ search path.
Build: make all CONFIG_NAME=redbear-full
Sync: ./local/scripts/sync-upstream.sh
vasilito