The custom kiwi boot descriptions has been moved into
the kiwi-descriptions github repo and builds the compat
package kiwi-boot-descriptions from there. The build
of the boot image(initrd) is done by dracut and the
dracut module packages provided by kiwi. The classic
custom boot descriptions can still be used as alternative
method if the above package is installed. Related to
Issue #576
This adds support for producing the main kiwi package as well as the
packages for the dracut modules to be used when building Debian-based
distribution images with KIWI.
The Debian/Ubuntu package is built using debbuild: https://github.com/ascherer/debbuild
lsblk should be called with -p because it's a mistake
to assume any device lives below /dev. There could also
be subtree devices in /dev/mapper or /dev/disk/..
We leave it up to lsblk to provide us the correct
information
Adapt package names for gdisk/gptfdisk and btrfs-progs/btrfsprogs
Install and require fdasd only on s390 architecture
Delete fbiterm requirement since the project seems unmaintained
and the use of the framebuffer terminal is an option in the code
but not mandatory. This Fixes#559
A new dracut module kiwi-repart used to be the successor of
the custom kiwi oemboot code to repartition the disk has
been added. Along with the module a dracut library kiwi-lib
will also be delivered.
the binaries groupadd and useradd used in the preinstall
scriptlet and provided by the shadow package needs a pre
requirement on shadow to make sure they exist when the
package gets installed. Fixes (bsc#1040256)
in case of XML validation errors, jing is used to provide
good error messages. jing as a requirement will pull in all
of java which is unwanted, but a Recommends seems appropriate
