Add CLI tool for system configuration
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
Research direction
Start by reviewing the proposed archconf command, its options, and the linked Arch Linux installation guide section. No source file, entry point, or test is named; the work is done when the requested CLI can configure the listed system settings under the supplied root and its behavior is covered by an agreed scope and tests.
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Description
Add a CLI tool called archconf to help configure the system during a manual installation.
$ archconf --help
usage: archconf [options] root
Options:
-t, --timezone <Area/Location> Set system timezone (e.g., Europe/Berlin)
-g, --gen-adjtime Generate /etc/adjtime for hardware clock
-l, --locale <locale> Set system locale (e.g., en_US.UTF-8)
-k, --keymap <keymap> Set console keymap (e.g., de-latin1)
-n, --hostname <name> Set system hostname
-h, --help Display this help message
-V, --version Display version
Example usage:
# archconf \
> --timezone Area/Location \
> --gen-adjtime \
> --locale en_US.UTF-8 \
> --keymap de-latin1 \
> --hostname yourhostname \
> /mnt
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- Dominant language
- Python
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- Merged PRs (30d)
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