diff --git a/docs/regions.md b/docs/regions.md index cc49bb77..1a4930c8 100644 --- a/docs/regions.md +++ b/docs/regions.md @@ -4,13 +4,13 @@ Regions customize bootstrap defaults independently of update channels and of the ## Runtime configuration -The ISO installer writes the region it derived to `/etc/omarchy/region` before target finalization. It is plain text, not executable configuration. A missing file means `global`; an unsupported value is an error. +The ISO installer writes the region it derived to `/etc/omarchy/region` before target finalization. It is plain text, not executable configuration, owned by root and world-readable (`0644`), because refresh renders as the calling user. A missing file means `global`; an unsupported value is an error. `omarchy-apply-pacman [target-root]` restores the selected channel's two pacman templates, appends the region's `pacman.conf.append` to `pacman.conf`, and puts the region's `mirrorlist-.prepend` ahead of the channel's mirrorlist. Both files are generated before either live file is replaced. Existing files are backed up with `.bak`. Dev uses the edge pacman channel, as before. Both installation finalization and `omarchy-refresh-pacman` use this command. Explicit refreshes and channel changes restore regional defaults; ordinary updates do not enforce them. The existing `pre-refresh-pacman` user hook runs after regeneration and before the update, so users can maintain overrides there. Switching to the dev channel refuses a checkout that lacks this machine's region profile, because that checkout's own refresh would otherwise drop the regional repositories. Users can edit the files directly or set the region to `global` before a refresh to stop applying regional repository defaults. This does not uninstall packages or rewrite anything in existing home directories. -The China profile puts Omarchy's China replica of the channel's Arch mirror first (`stable-mirror.omarchy.cn`, `rc-mirror.omarchy.cn`, or `mirror.omarchy.cn` for edge and dev) and keeps the channel's `.org` mirror as the fallback. pacman tries servers in order and moves to the next one when a download fails, including a 404. After three failed downloads from one server, it skips that server for the rest of the transaction. It also takes the package databases from the first server that answers, without comparing them, so the China replicas must carry complete, current metadata. The profile also adds the ArchLinuxCN community repository from USTC's mirror, run by the University of Science and Technology of China. It does not change the `[omarchy]` package repository. +The China profile puts Omarchy's China replica of the channel's Arch mirror first (`stable-mirror.omarchy.cn`, `rc-mirror.omarchy.cn`, or `mirror.omarchy.cn` for edge and dev) and keeps the channel's `.org` mirror as the fallback. pacman tries servers in order and moves to the next one when a download fails, including a 404. After three failed downloads from one server, it skips that server for the rest of the transaction. It also takes the package databases from the first server that answers, without comparing them, so the China replicas must carry complete, current metadata. The profile also adds the ArchLinuxCN community repository from USTC's mirror, run by the University of Science and Technology of China. It does not change the `[omarchy]` package repository. ArchLinuxCN is rolling and built against current Arch, while stable and RC are snapshots, so its packages can need newer libraries than a stable machine has. ## Profile layout