TLC (Twilight Commander) was missing from both ISO configs. Added
tlc = {} to [packages] in redbear-mini.toml and redbear-full.toml.
Created missing symlink: recipes/tui/tlc -> ../../local/recipes/tui/tlc.
The build-redbear.sh script was applying patches from local/patches/ to
recipes/core/{kernel,base,relibc,installer}/source/ via apply_patch_dir().
For path= (local fork) components, recipes/core/<comp>/source is a SYMLINK
to local/sources/<comp>. The patches went through the symlink and modified
the fork directly — re-adding old code like SchedPolicy that was already
removed from the fork.
This was the root cause of the kernel source reversion bug that caused
intermittent build failures (V157, V159): old patches re-applying stale
code to the synced fork through symlinks.
Fix:
- Remove apply_patch_dir calls for kernel, base, relibc, installer
(all use path= local fork model — changes are committed to the fork)
- Keep apply_patch_dir for bootloader (still uses git= + patches)
- Remove stash_nested_repo_if_dirty for relibc (no patches to stash)
- Update verify-overlay-integrity.sh expected patch symlinks
- Update apply-patches.sh to not create kernel/base patch symlinks
- Fix 005-qtbase signature marker (wrong path: libs → wip/qt)
- Remove 78 old patch symlinks from recipes/core/kernel/ (cleanup)
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)
vasilito