Add support for using os-installer to install pmOS

This adds a new UI pkg for configuring/running os-installer, which is a nice little OS installer thing that we can use to install pmOS on laptops/tablets and stuff like that.

It runs under GNOME desktop, to support accessibility features and operate as a "live CD" like many other distro installer things do.

Under the hood, this is using pmbootstrap to install pmOS onto some local storage selected by the user in the os-installer UI. It defaults to targetting the device that the user is booted into. It will support FDE once a new pmbootstrap release is made with pmbootstrap!2538 (merged) in it.

Currently it only offers GNOME, KDE, and xfce desktop environments, but it's pretty easy to add more later.

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Awe yeah this is looking great!

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I'm currently working on merging ondev2 into the buffybox codebase as recommended by @ollieparanoid, which would fulfill this same idea. But, I think this is a good stop-gap solution. My only question is if it would make more sense to integrate something into pmbootstrap that checks if the device is a desktop or such and prompts if the user would like to try a live-cd instead of a normal image.

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mentioned in issue pmcr#5

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once a new pmbootstrap release is made with pmbootstrap!2538 (merged) in it.

I'd like to get some more fixes for cross-native in before tagging a new release so this might take a bit (up to a few weeks I guess). We could make a patch release with that patch on top of the last release though if you like, feel free to ping me about this. (And other pmb maintainers could make such a patch release as well of course.)

This is very nice, excited to finally have pre-built images that allow installing postmarketOS with FDE to laptops and PCs!

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Nice! Finally used this as a opportunity to flash pmOS on a old laptop I had lying around. Works as expected, altough maybe display timeout should be disabled with a dconf override file since I didn't manage to login from suspend without the installer-user password.

Oh yeah, good point... I'll need to look up how to do this later (unless someone else is motivated to do it sooner )

Ok added some gsettings override thing that should disable the automatic screen lock, but it still needs to be tested (if anyone wants to have a go )

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CI is failing because os-installer binary packages aren't in alpine repos yet. It should be retried when this shows up

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