[Assist] [assist] Shepherd, firmware and intel-ucode

[Javier]

I'm looking forward to migrate from Arch to an Arch based non systemd, and even better if Shepherd init system distro.  I noticed Shepherd is included as a Pcr-Testing package, so it means one can start testing it.  However I didn't find anything related to how to migrate from Arch to a Shepherd based Parabola.  Moreover, I didn't find how to deal with Shepherd, meaning whether most SW with daemons have a Shepherd daemon counterpart, to avoid having to write them, also how to start/stop and enable/disable daemons.

Also, it seems Parabola doesn't include the intel-ucode package, which is loaded into the HW as an initrd in Arch.  I see the iucode-tool though.  How does Parabola deals with intel ucode upgrades (amd ones as well for that matter)?  I'm afraid several security issues are closed through ucode upgrades, so it's important to keep them up to date I'd guess.

Finally, for FW in general, currently on Arch I don't bother about installing specific FW for the most part.  Depending on the system I use, the only particular packages I've installed on Arch:

nouveau-fw
linux-firmware
nouveau-fw

Not sure if there are global FW packages in Parabola that would avoid discovering the hard way what FW is missing to get some HW working.  Also, it came to my attention that for some wireless drivers [1], one needs to get the FW from the linux kernel, is there a way get an unofficial package with the FW instead, to also keep the FW up to date, and not get with a stale outdated FW?

Sorry for so general questions.  I'd like to understand what implications there are by migrating, and these are like big topics for me.  BTW, I'd like to avoid migrating to openRC if my plan is to migrate to Shepherd, to avoid going through 2 learning curves.  If the suggestion is to wait until Shepherd moves to the Pcr repo, then I might migrate only until then, but is there a way to find out (news subscription or similar) other than monitoring where the package is?

Thanks !

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Javier

[1]  https://wiki.parabola.nu/Wireless_Setup

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