[ANNOUNCEMENT] An update for cryptsetup stage1 script

14 May 2021, 16:45:58

We have updated the cryptsetup stage1 script with a cleaner version of it. See the file for details.

We also added an experimental support for encrypted swap. While I've tried it myself and it has a very satisfactory results, we invite all interested users to test it as it's on [gremlins] now. We hope to push it to [system] in two weeks to a month, depending on the response.

To install and test the new cryptsetup-runit script, there are two ways to do it:

Using the package manager

Enable [gremlins] repo
pacman -Sy cryptsetup-runit (Note the lack of u, we only want to install, not upgrade the whole system)
Disable [gremlins] repo (if you don't want to use [gremlins] continually)
pacman -Syu (optional for the u part)

Direct download

Download the package directly from from our main mirror or your favourite mirror (using wget or other commands):
wget http://mirror1.artixlinux.org/repos/gremlins/os/x86_64/cryptsetup-runit-20210513-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
and then run
pacman -U cryptsetup-runit-20210513-1-any.pkg.tar.zst

Follow the Arch Wiki instructions to enable swap encryption.

As always, back up all important data before doing any operation related to disks.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] An update for cryptsetup stage1 script

Reply #1 – 29 May 2021, 15:42:15

No complaints in the first two weeks, I'm going ahead and moving the new cryptsetup-runit stage1 script to [system] and see how it goes.