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Roland 719905cb77 Moving WROLPi-managed mounts off /etc/fstab onto a drive-resident fstab.yaml.
A WROLPi drive can move between hosts and across deployment styles
(Portable, RPi, Debian).  /etc/fstab is host-specific and on the Portable
image it's part of a read-only squashfs, so persisting secondary mounts
there was both wrong-host and lost-on-reboot.  This change makes
/media/wrolpi/config/fstab.yaml the single source of truth for WROLPi-
managed mounts and introduces a new wrolpi-mounts.service that reconciles
live state to match.

Architecture:

- The Controller writes intent (fstab.yaml) but never calls mount(8) or
  umount(8) itself.  Every mutation triggers `systemctl restart
  wrolpi-mounts.service`; the Controller then verifies the outcome via
  the same MountExecutor abstraction the service uses.

- wrolpi-mounts.service runs a thin entry point that constructs a real
  Reconciler with a SubprocessMountExecutor and calls apply().  The
  reconciler mounts what's in fstab.yaml but missing from the live state,
  and unmounts paths it previously claimed that are no longer in
  fstab.yaml.  A managed-set file in /run/wrolpi-mounts/managed prevents
  the reconciler from ever touching user-mounted paths it didn't own.

- One-time migration (marker-gated) lifts both /etc/fstab WROLPi entries
  and any controller.yaml drives.mounts entries into fstab.yaml.
  /etc/fstab is backed up to /etc/fstab.wrolpi-migration.backup;
  migrated lines are commented in place with a "migrated to fstab.yaml:"
  prefix so a host admin can hand-recover.

Test approach: dependency injection in place of patching.  The
MountExecutor protocol has SubprocessMountExecutor (production) and
FakeMountExecutor (in-memory, records calls).  The Reconciler accepts an
executor in its constructor, so the 20 reconciler tests + 13 migration
tests + 18 fstab_yaml tests use real files in tmp_path with zero
mock.patch calls.  test_disks_api.py drops to mocks only for the
host-touching read helpers; the mount/unmount paths now run the real
Reconciler against the fake executor.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.circleci Creating browser extension to facilitate starting downloads. Chrome/Brave and Firefox supported. 2026-05-03 11:48:50 -06:00
.github Splitting dependabot PRs to avoid massive breaking PRs. 2026-05-03 12:18:39 -06:00
.run Video downloads have many more options. Downloads are migrated. 2024-11-28 09:48:57 -07:00
alembic Adding simple search to epub viewer. 2026-04-13 17:23:20 -06:00
app Bump @types/node from 20.19.25 to 25.8.0 in /app (#427) 2026-05-15 19:37:14 -06:00
controller Moving WROLPi-managed mounts off /etc/fstab onto a drive-resident fstab.yaml. 2026-05-24 12:44:05 -06:00
debian-live-config Adding support for mounting NTFS drives in the Controller. (#440) 2026-05-15 19:25:43 -06:00
docker Map search added to global search. Preview cards are displayed for all results in new Map tab. 2026-04-13 12:17:08 -06:00
etc Moving WROLPi-managed mounts off /etc/fstab onto a drive-resident fstab.yaml. 2026-05-24 12:44:05 -06:00
modules Using stubs to simplify tests. 2026-05-07 20:07:46 -06:00
pi-gen Adding support for mounting NTFS drives in the Controller. (#440) 2026-05-15 19:25:43 -06:00
scripts Updating raspberry pi package list file name. 2026-04-14 16:52:33 -06:00
test Modifying Video/Channel/RSS Downloaders so that they can download videos, but audio only. These audio files are grouped under their channel directories. 2026-04-14 15:33:01 -06:00
wrolpi Bumping version to 0.22.0-beta. 2026-05-15 20:41:00 -06:00
wrolpi-portable Moving WROLPi-managed mounts off /etc/fstab onto a drive-resident fstab.yaml. 2026-05-24 12:44:05 -06:00
.coveragerc Adding coverage config which ignores non-API directories. 2024-10-16 18:56:03 -06:00
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.gitpod.yml add Gitpod support (#157) 2023-02-02 16:02:19 -07:00
.mcp.json.example Removing WROLPi admin functionality that is now in Controller. 2025-12-19 18:41:27 -07:00
alembic.ini A new start 2021-11-01 16:43:09 -06:00
conftest.py Zim/Kiwix (Wikipedia) feature 2023-07-10 21:30:40 -06:00
demo_link.jpg Replacing demo image. 2023-01-30 13:27:26 -07:00
docker-compose.yml Checking if postgres is ready faster to speed up docker container startup. 2026-05-03 12:09:12 -06:00
help.sh Migrating Controller from port 8087 to 80 so that it is more discoverable. Reformatting Controller dashboard to make header at the top. Reformatting navigation bar to handle the new links which prevented Admin from being visible in some screens. 2026-04-09 15:01:05 -06:00
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install.sh Many fixes split out from the feature/unified-query branch. Installing diagnostic tools in the built images. Displaying video comment statistics. Echoing error when install.sh fails. 2024-04-14 13:13:30 -06:00
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main.py Displaying warning when no drive is mounted. 2026-05-14 16:16:18 -06:00
pytest.ini FileGroups in Collections can be reorganized in the Collection's directory. 2026-01-31 18:08:41 -07:00
README.md Map search added to global search. Preview cards are displayed for all results in new Map tab. 2026-04-13 12:17:08 -06:00
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requirements.txt Bump pytest from 8.3.3 to 9.0.3 (#422) 2026-05-15 19:49:33 -06:00
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WROLPi

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Create your own off-grid library.

WROLPi Logo

WROLPi is a self-contained collection of software to help you survive the world Without Rule of Law.

WROLPi is intended to be run on a Raspberry Pi with an optional external drive attached. It serves up it's own Wi-Fi network so that any user with a laptop/tablet/phone can connect and use the library created by the maintainer.

Table of Contents

Features

  • Videos
  • Web Archives
  • Maps
  • Wikipedia
  • File search
  • eBooks (EPUB / PDFs)
  • Wi-Fi Hotspot
  • Universal search
  • Food Inventory management
  • One-Time pad generator, encrypter/decrypter
  • Synchronizer/duplicator
  • Food storage calculator

Module features matrix

Module View Search Download Project
Videos yes yes yes yt-dlp
Web Archives yes yes yes Singlefile
Wikipedia yes yes yes Kiwix
eBooks yes yes planned EPUB/PDF
Map yes yes yes Protomaps
Podcasts/Audio yes planned planned

Demo

YouTube Demo Video

Download

Images are available at wrolpi.org

Try WROLPi!

You can try out WROLPi by running the docker containers.

  1. Install docker-ce and docker-compose
  2. Copy the latest WROLPi code.
    • git clone https://github.com/lrnselfreliance/wrolpi.git
  3. Change directory into the code base.
    • cd wrolpi
  4. Initialize git submodules
    • git submodule update --init
  5. Build the containers.
    • docker-compose build --parallel
  6. Create volumes.
    • docker volume create --name=openstreetmap-data
    • docker volume create --name=openstreetmap-rendered-tiles
  7. Start the database.
    • docker-compose up -d db
  8. Initialize the database.
    • docker-compose run --rm api db upgrade
  9. Start the docker containers.
    • docker-compose up
  10. Browse to WROLPi.

More Docker documentation is available in docker/README.md

Debian 12 Install

Steps necessary to initialize your WROLPi after installing the Debian image from wrolpi.org

  1. Download and copy a pre-built Debian image from https://wrolpi.org onto a USB thumb-drive (USB 2 recommended)
  2. Insert the thumb-drive into the laptop, boot to the thumb-drive
    1. Select "Start Installer"
    2. Install Debian 12 as you would like.
      1. It is recommended to use the hostname wrolpi
      2. (WROLPi will be installed during the installation without your intervention.)
  3. Unplug the thumb-drive after the installation has completed
  4. Login as the user you created during installation.
  5. Switch to the root user: su -
  6. Initialize the WROLPi databases using the repair script: /opt/wrolpi/repair.sh
  7. Reboot: reboot
  8. Browse to https://wrolpi.local or the IP address of your WROLPi!

Raspberry Pi Install

Steps necessary to initialize your WROLPi after installing the Raspberry Pi image from wrolpi.org

  1. Download and copy a pre-built image from https://wrolpi.org onto an SD card.
  2. Boot the Raspberry Pi, login with username pi and password wrolpi.
  3. Modify fstab to mount your external drive to /media/wrolpi (modify this command to match your system).
    • echo '/dev/sda1 /media/wrolpi auto defaults,nofail 0 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
  4. Initialize the WROLPi databases using the repair script: sudo /opt/wrolpi/repair.sh
  5. Reboot sudo reboot
  6. Join the Hotspot or browse to https://wrolpi.local or the IP address of your WROLPi!

Charter

Guiding Principals

  1. Storage is cheaper than power.
  2. Two is one, one is none.
  3. Run silently.
  4. Primary, secondary, tertiary.
  5. Secure as a bookshelf in your home.

Physical properties

  1. A WROLPi instance should be capable of running with a minimal of hardware:
    • Raspberry Pi
    • SD card
    • External USB hard drive
    • Power supply and cables
    • Wi-Fi USER device such as a phone, tablet, or laptop.
  2. A WROLPi instance should consume a minimal amount of electricity during WROL event. It is expected power will be scarce when WROLPi is needed most.

User expectations

  1. A WROLPi instance should be run and maintained by a person (MAINTAINER) with a moderate amount of Linux and Raspberry Pi experience. It is expected that they should be able to do this using only the documentation on their WROLPi.

Software properties and capabilities

  1. A WROLPi instance should be able to "factory-reset" itself without any outside services.
  2. WROLPi should function completely without any internet services.
  3. A user should have easy access to their data if WROLPi fails:
    • For example, a user can watch their videos by navigating a short and intuitive directory structure and opening the video in their preferred video player.
  4. WROLPi should be self-documented. The UI should contain a tutorial for USERS as well as the MAINTAINER.
    • If the UI isn't functional, the code should be documented such that a user can restore functionality.
  5. WROLPi should favor pre-processing, rather than processing during a WROL event. Such as re-encoding a video, or processing captions. This is to ensure that when a user adds content during non-WROL time, the processing for optimum performance is already done for a WROL event.

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