Phase 4.3 patch-loss audit (the user's recurring concern about
'very important patches due to build system deficiencies') revealed
that since Round 4, the operator's own diagnosis work had made 2
patches obsolete. Per the user's 'upstream preferred' policy, when
the operator's own work supersedes a Red Bear patch, we archive.
P0-canary (operator-superseded):
- Original: Phase 1.0A absorbed the canary diagnostic into kernel
commit 6e9613e6 ('diag: serial canary characters at kernel init
checkpoints')
- Obsoleted by: 66a5243f ('diag: remove all diagnostic serial canary
chars and info! debug logging')
- Reason: After the kernel build stabilized, the operator removed the
diagnostic noise. The canary's purpose (early-boot serial output)
is no longer needed.
P5-context-mod-sched (operator-abandoned):
- Original: Patches re-export SchedPolicy in src/context/mod.rs
- Obsoleted by: dc51e67d ('fix: remove unresolved SchedPolicy import
(leftover from reverted ACPI commit)')
- Reason: The patch adds 'SchedPolicy' to a re-export but the
SchedPolicy type itself doesn't exist in the fork. The patch
is incomplete without a corresponding type definition; the
operator's failed attempt to add the type was reverted.
Both moves follow AGENTS.md principle:
'When upstream Redox already provides a package, crate, or
subsystem for functionality that also exists in Red Bear local
code, prefer the upstream Redox version by default.'
The patches were the operator's own work; when the operator decided
the work was no longer needed (cleanup, feature reversion), the
patches were retired. 'Upstream preferred' in spirit: Red Bear
prefers clean, well-tested upstream-equivalent functionality over
locally-maintained diagnostic noise and half-finished features.
After this commit:
Active patches: 119 (was 121)
Archived: 96 in legacy-superseded-2026-07-12/
All forks: 0 orphans
iPerf3 3.21 is a bug fix release from July 2025.
rsync 3.4.4 is the latest 3.4.x maintenance release.
git 2.55.0 is the latest 2.55.x stable release, fixing 9+ years of CVEs
and bugs since the Red Bear build's 2.13.1 baseline. This is a security
critical upgrade.
Live upstream versions verified 2026-07-11:
- gnu-grep 3.12 (2025-04-10) -- https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/
- libsodium 1.0.22-stable (2026-07-08) -- https://download.libsodium.org/libsodium/releases/
- autoconf 2.73 (2026-03-20) -- https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/
Each recipe updated with new tar URL + BLAKE3 hash. Build-tool upgrades are
isolated from the fork content-verification system, so these are SAFE to
upgrade without the relibc-style risk.
diffutils was already at 3.12 (previously committed).
Also: fork-upstream-map.toml — bootloader flagged PENDING_REBASE
(2026-07-11 detection: 1.0.0 tag mismatch, fork based on 0.1.0 archive
not a true rebase — documented inline).
python312: Added --disable-test-modules to host build configure flags.
The host build (needed as dev-dependency for cross-compile) was
trying to compile test modules (_testmultiphase, xxlimited, etc.)
which fail on this system. The cross-compile already had this flag.
icu: Added --disable-tools to cross-compile configure flags. The ICU
data tools (genrb, derb) try to link against cross-compiled static
libraries, causing C++ vtable linker errors (undefined reference
to vtable for UTF16CollationIterator). Tools are built in the host
step; cross-compile only needs the libraries.
Combined with zsh --srcdir, base staging mkdir, and netstack fix,
these unblock the redbear-mini build.
- recipes/dev/python312/recipe.toml: use COOKBOOK_TOOLCHAIN for
--with-build-python instead of /tmp/python312, which the build system
never stages. Add [ -x ] guard for clear failure on missing dev-dep.
- recipes/core/userutils/recipe.toml: switch from upstream git URL to
local fork (local/sources/userutils/) per the local fork model. The
upstream source opens /scheme/pty/ptmx which the ptyd scheme does not
recognize; the local fork opens /scheme/pty correctly and avoids the
getty PTY panic.
- local/scripts/build-preflight.sh: warn when a recipe build script
references /tmp/<known-package>/, since the cookbook does not stage
host dev-deps under /tmp/<name>. Points authors at COOKBOOK_TOOLCHAIN.
- local/scripts/build-redbear.sh: replace 'tail -1 || true' on pre-cook
failures with proper error capture, last-50-lines tail on failure, and
exit-1. Verify the pkgar exists after a successful cook.
- Add x11proto to redbear-full.toml package list
- libxau recipe updated with x11proto dependency and custom build script
- Fixes libxau build failure: 'Package xproto was not found'
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