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<title>Remove reboot tasks as they are not necessary</title>
<updated>2026-03-01T21:21:44+00:00</updated>
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<name>Ahmed Abdelhalim</name>
<email>pm@a14m.dev</email>
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<published>2026-03-01T21:21:44+00:00</published>
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The reboot also makes the testing quite unstable, and they don't have a
lot of added benefits, removing them for now
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The reboot also makes the testing quite unstable, and they don't have a
lot of added benefits, removing them for now
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<title>Refactor "Require reboot" to use standard reboot</title>
<updated>2026-02-27T01:49:55+00:00</updated>
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<name>Ahmed Abdelhalim</name>
<email>pm@a14m.dev</email>
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<published>2026-02-27T01:39:28+00:00</published>
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<title>Add reboot to the playbook as post_task (controlled by flag)</title>
<updated>2026-02-12T22:14:26+00:00</updated>
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<name>Ahmed Abdelhalim</name>
<email>pm@a14m.dev</email>
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<published>2026-02-12T22:14:26+00:00</published>
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<title>Handle avahi removal in network role only</title>
<updated>2026-02-12T00:39:26+00:00</updated>
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<name>Ahmed Abdelhalim</name>
<email>pm@a14m.dev</email>
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<published>2026-02-11T23:56:23+00:00</published>
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Since it can cause problems (following the archlinux wiki
recommendations) we keep the handling of that in the network role and
ignore idempotence testing failures in other roles too
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Since it can cause problems (following the archlinux wiki
recommendations) we keep the handling of that in the network role and
ignore idempotence testing failures in other roles too
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<title>Fix removing the packages the breaks ubuntu DNS</title>
<updated>2025-10-24T19:55:52+00:00</updated>
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<name>Ahmed Abdelhalim</name>
<email>pm@a14m.dev</email>
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<published>2025-10-22T21:19:11+00:00</published>
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This disables install_recommends and revert to using specific gnome
packages that are needed/necessary for functioning
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This disables install_recommends and revert to using specific gnome
packages that are needed/necessary for functioning
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<title>Fix gnome role idempotency test</title>
<updated>2025-09-22T23:08:17+00:00</updated>
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<name>Ahmed Abdelhalim</name>
<email>pm@a14m.dev</email>
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<published>2025-09-22T20:51:02+00:00</published>
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Gnome installs avahi-daemon, and keeps reinstalling it

Remove the ubuntu specific tasks and install the packages with
recommendations (as we are removing the avahi-daemon afterwords to make
the network manager stable and idempotent)
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Gnome installs avahi-daemon, and keeps reinstalling it

Remove the ubuntu specific tasks and install the packages with
recommendations (as we are removing the avahi-daemon afterwords to make
the network manager stable and idempotent)
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<title>Refactor gnome not to pull unnecessary deps (like avahi)</title>
<updated>2025-09-22T08:35:32+00:00</updated>
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<name>Ahmed Abdelhalim</name>
<email>pm@a14m.dev</email>
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<published>2025-09-22T08:35:32+00:00</published>
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The recommended debian/ubuntu install of gnome pulls avahi-daemon and
that could potentially conflicts with NetworkManager.

Therefore resorting to more restrictive approach for installing gnome
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The recommended debian/ubuntu install of gnome pulls avahi-daemon and
that could potentially conflicts with NetworkManager.

Therefore resorting to more restrictive approach for installing gnome
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<title>Linting: update the code to use latest sytnax recommendation</title>
<updated>2025-09-21T22:12:01+00:00</updated>
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<name>Ahmed Abdelhalim</name>
<email>pm@a14m.dev</email>
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<published>2025-09-21T22:12:01+00:00</published>
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<title>Ignore gnome debian package install idempotency failure</title>
<updated>2025-09-21T22:10:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ahmed Abdelhalim</name>
<email>pm@a14m.dev</email>
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<published>2025-09-21T22:10:41+00:00</published>
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It seems that the gnome packages are complicated and might have postinst
scripts that causes the system state to change/correct...
For this, we just ignore it from the idempotent test
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It seems that the gnome packages are complicated and might have postinst
scripts that causes the system state to change/correct...
For this, we just ignore it from the idempotent test
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<title>Fix installing gnome on debian and arch</title>
<updated>2025-09-21T20:55:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ahmed Abdelhalim</name>
<email>pm@a14m.dev</email>
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<published>2025-09-21T20:55:57+00:00</published>
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Instead of using ubuntu version which isn't great, I prefer using the
minimal gnome
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Instead of using ubuntu version which isn't great, I prefer using the
minimal gnome
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