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gershwin-on-nextbsd

Builds a Gershwin desktop live ISO on top of NextBSD.

CI assembles the NextBSD base+kernel+userland from packages — one pkg install NextBSD-everything out of the nextbsd-pkg flat repo, seeded with the admin-owned /etc from nextbsd-overlays (the same package-driven model NextBSD's own build now uses) — chroot-builds Gershwin into that rootfs (from a FreeBSD VM), adds Gershwin's loginwindow alongside the base getty, and repackages the result into a live ISO that boots exactly like NextBSD's own — a tiny mfsroot assembles an on-demand uzip-compressed root plus a tmpfs/unionfs writable overlay, then sysctl vfs.pivot adopts the union as / and execs launchd.

A fresh ISO is published to the rolling continuous release on every push to main.

Gershwin on NextBSD desktop

(Screenshot auto-captured by CI after booting the live ISO and logging in.)

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build.sh pkg install NextBSD-everything → chroot-build Gershwin → bake pkglist.txt → repackage live ISO. Runs inside a FreeBSD VM.
pkglist.txt Runtime packages baked into the ISO that Gershwin needs but doesn't install itself — the XLibre X server + input/video drivers.
.github/workflows/build.yml build → boot-test → publish continuous release.
tests/boot-test.sh Boots the ISO under qemu/OVMF and asserts the vfs.pivot live-root pipeline.
overlays/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ Gershwin launchd jobs added to the image (loginwindow, dshelper, gdomap, D-Bus system bus).

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