source: handbook ch. 70
Glossary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| airootfs | The directory in an ISO profile whose contents are overlaid onto the live system's root. See airootfs customization. |
| ALPM | Arch Linux Package Management library; the engine under pacman. |
| AUR | Arch User Repository; community PKGBUILDs built by users. Where generic Arch packages belong. |
| bootmodes | The profiledef.sh list of boot combinations a profile supports (BIOS/UEFI × USB/CD). |
| Calamares | The framework-based installer Parch uses, with a Parch flavor package for branding and configuration. |
| chroot | A process view of a filesystem rooted elsewhere; clean chroot builds verify packages against only their declared dependencies. |
| DKMS | Dynamic Kernel Module Support; rebuilds out-of-tree drivers (NVIDIA, broadcom-wl) against installed kernels. |
| DKMS module risk | Out-of-tree modules must match the kernel version; kernel upgrades trigger rebuilds. |
| EFI system partition (ESP) | FAT32 partition (512 MiB in Parch presets) holding UEFI bootloaders. |
| Estedad | The Persian UI typeface shipped by Parch. See typography. |
| HIG | Human Interface Guidelines; this portal's design rules for apps. See HIG. |
| initramfs | The early-userspace image that mounts the real root; generated by mkinitcpio. |
| libadwaita | The GTK4 companion library providing Parch-HIG-aligned widgets; used by parch-welcome and PKM. |
| mkarchiso | The archiso build command that turns a profile into an ISO. |
| mkinitcpio | Arch's initramfs generator; configured via /etc/mkinitcpio.conf.d/ and presets. |
| Namcap | The Arch PKGBUILD and package linter. |
| pacman | Arch's package manager; unchanged in Parch. |
| Pastor | The Parch Store application (Rust). |
| PKGBUILD | The bash script describing how a package is built. See the reference. |
| pkgctl | Devtools CLI for chroot builds (pkgctl build) and PKGBUILD checkout (pkgctl repo clone). |
| profiledef.sh | The ISO profile's metadata script: name, label, bootmodes, file permissions. |
| repo-add | Tool that regenerates a pacman sync database from package files; how world's world.db is maintained. |
| Rolling release | A distribution model with continuous updates and no version milestones; the ISO is a snapshot. |
| RTL | Right-to-left script direction (Persian); see RTL & Persian. |
| shiki | The syntax highlighter used by this portal's code blocks. |
| SigLevel | pacman's signature-verification setting; Never today for world, Required is the proposed target. |
| squashfs | The compressed read-only filesystem holding the live system inside the ISO. |
| SDDM | The display manager on Plasma editions, themed by parch-sddm. |
| systemd-networkd | The network configurator used in the live environment. |
| Void | Parch's testing repository; packages graduate to world. |
| world | Parch's stable package repository, served from GitHub. |