Reset shell command hash in spinner and make sleep resilient to shells without redirected sleep, preventing stale PATH lookups and failures in background subshells. Improve Gentoo bootstrap by syncing portage (emerge-webrsync or emerge --sync), preferring binary packages (--getbinpkg --usepkg) before falling back to source emerge, and add a fallback fetcher: prefer curl but use wget if curl is unavailable; fail with a clear error if neither is present. Replace direct curl sourcing with a configurable _fetch command to support the wget fallback.
Add a forced container env (_ct_env) exporting LC_ALL/LANG=C.UTF-8 and DEBIAN_FRONTEND to ensure commands (apt, sed, locale-gen, getent, tz setup) run reliably in fresh templates that lack generated locales. Use the env when running pct exec for locale setup, timezone symlink, DNS checks, and apt installs.
Improve terminal handling: set TERM=xterm-256color only for SSH sessions by appending a guarded block to /root/.bashrc, disable /etc/profile.d/vte.{sh,csh} by renaming them to avoid CSI 6n prompt garbage on LXC/noVNC consoles, and add /etc/profile.d/00-lxc-term-size.sh to force a sane stty rows/cols when the pseudo-tty reports 0x0. These changes prevent locale-related errors and stray CSI responses in LXC containers.
Configure both container-getty@1 and console-getty to auto-login root with unified agetty options, ensuring either Proxmox noVNC (/dev/tty1) or pct/serial (/dev/console) works. Add stable _agetty_opts, write per-service override files, enable console-getty on distros that need it, and reload systemd. Disable vte profile scripts to avoid cursor-query noise on first prompt, restart only active getty services to avoid duplicates, and create /root/.hushlogin to suppress login messages.
Refine LXC container bootstrap and sysvinit autologin handling.
- Fix case branch formatting and change Debian-family check to an elif to avoid logic fall-through.
- Add a non-apt branch for Fedora/Rocky/Alma/CentOS/openEuler/openSUSE/Arch/Gentoo that sets the container timezone from the host and ensures curl is installed via the appropriate package manager.
- Improve sysvinit (/etc/inittab) auto-login changes: use more robust sed patterns, append a console autologin entry via heredoc, signal init to reload inittab before killing getty processes, and target getty processes more precisely to ensure proper respawn with new settings.
Suppress perl/apt locale warnings by configuring C.UTF-8 for apt-based systems. The script now exports DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive and LC_ALL/LANG/LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 when PKG_MANAGER==apt, and appends LC_ALL and LANG to /etc/environment if not present. This addresses cases where a container inherits an ungenerated host locale (e.g. Devuan) and ensures C.UTF-8, which is always available, is used.
Add Arch Linux container support and integrate pacman into install utilities. New files: ct/archlinux.sh (container build/update script), install/archlinux-install.sh (install entrypoint), and json/archlinux.json (metadata). misc/install.func: detect_arch in detect_os, add pacman bootstrap, and implement pacman handlers for pkg_upgrade, pkg_install, pkg_remove, pkg_clean and package refresh; include openssh install path for pacman and provide a cleanup_lxc override to run pkg_clean. Enables creating/updating Arch Linux LXC containers and proper package manager handling.
Bump Fedora template to 43 and enhance container installation tooling. Persist DIAGNOSTICS setting and introduce post_progress_to_api() to send lightweight telemetry pings from inside containers (fire-and-forget, enabled when DIAGNOSTICS=yes and RANDOM_UUID set). Harden package management flows: re-detect PKG_MANAGER when commands are missing, add apt mirror fallback logic (apt_update_safe) and more robust apt-cacher proxy parsing. Fix Debian 13 LXC root ownership bug (chown /) and add additional DNS/Git host checks (including api.github.com). Improve downloading and validation of tools.func, add multiple post_progress_to_api hooks to signal progress, and add two new install entrypoints (misc/main/install.func and misc/main/alpine-install.func) that consolidate network checks, OS updates, MOTD/SSH setup and container customization.
