When using --logfile, the log generated there matches the
stdout log (which without --debug, does not include any debug info).
This is in contrast to the automatically generated one in the
output directory, which always does and also not following the
way how it is documented. This Fixes#2503
Setting sys.argv and global variables impacts tests such that
they cannot run in parallel. The little footprint of excluding
the --config global args test from the coverage is beneficial
to allow parallel test runs
Like with --logfile this commit adds support for using
an existing Unix Domain Socket for logging. It's required
that there is a listener on the given socket otherwise
kiwi exits with an appropriate error message from the
socket layer. A simple listener could look like the
following:
```python
sock_file = '/tmp/log_socket'
buffer = 1024
if os.path.exists(sock_file):
os.unlink(sock_file)
sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
sock.bind(sock_file)
sock.listen(1)
while True:
connection, client_address = sock.accept()
try:
while True:
data = connection.recv(buffer)
if not data:
break
print(data.decode())
finally:
connection.close()
```
With the listener in place kiwi can be called as follows:
kiwi-ng --logsocket /tmp/log_socket ...
When building with kiwi a search on the kiwi main config
file is made inside of the given --description directory.
The search looks up for the file config.xml or *.kiwi.
So far there was no opportunity to specify another name.
This commit adds an option in the global area named:
--kiwi-file name
which will make kiwi to lookup this file inside of the
given --description directory and fail if it does not
exist. This Fixes#1973
The option setting '--logfile stdout' is now a special form
and logs the messages usually written to a file to stdout
instead. This is handy if all messages of the build are
requested but the --debug switch is not because it does more
than that, e.g calling scripts through debug'able screen
sessions
Moving use of mkdtemp, NamedTemporaryFile and TemporaryDirectory
into its own class called Temporary: By default all temporary
data is created below /var/tmp but can be changed via the
global commandline option --temp-dir. This Fixes#1870
The option --target-arch allows to set the architecture
used to build the image. By default this is the host
architecture. Please note, if the specified architecture
name does not match the host architecture and is therefore
requesting a cross architecture image build, it's important
to understand that for this process to work a preparatory
step to support the image architecture and binary format
on the building host is required and is not considered a
responsibility of kiwi. There will be a followup effort
on providing a plugin for kiwi which should be used to
manage the needed binfmt settings for cross arch image
builds
when using kiwi as API the program fails with a usage message
from the Cli class. The kiwi.cli module should not be imported
except for kiwi comandline tasks. It has turned out that the
RuntimeConfig class which is used in several places in different
API classes imports Cli and creates an instance of it to check
for a global option. This causes major issues for all programs
which uses the kiwi API but not the command line interface because
the docopt call in Cli() expects a valid docstring which only
exists in kiwi's cli.py. This commit fixes the inconsistency
and allows people to use the kiwi API independent of any
command line interface. Fixes#1755
The optional kiwi runtime config file (kiwi.yml) could
only be read from ~/.config/kiwi/config.yml or /etc/kiwi.yml
This commits adds the global option --config which allows
to specify a custom runtime configuration as well.
Defaults shared cache location does not depend on CLI parameters
Add set method for custom cache location in Defaults
CLI default value for shared cache dir depends on Defaults if not set
Update default if CLI shared cache dir set
Fixes#1671
The vmx type is auto converted into an oem type with rootfs
resize disabled such that all disk images can be handled
under one disk type. However people who run kiwi on the
commandline and have selected --type vmx before now end
with an error message saying that there is no vmx type
because it was converted into an oem type. To handle this
more gracefully this commit changes the commandline
option --type vmx into --type oem if provided and prints
a warning message.
Set kiwi.tasks to be the plugin entry point and register
existing task plugins in setup.py. Change the code in
cli.py to auto register plugins using the iter_entry_points
method from the pkg_resources class. This allows for easier
writing of external kiwi plugins.
The kiwi binary from the entry_point configuration is
kiwi-ng. The docopt strings should use this name for
consistency. The alternative binary name kiwi is just
a symlink created on the rpm packaging level and is
not guaranteed to exist depending on how kiwi was
installed
Python2 is announced to be unmaintained from Jan 2020.
KIWI supports Python 2.7 and it should not support any python version that
is not maintained upstream. This Fixes#1036
In addition to the 'kiwi --compat -- ...' style we also support calling
the kiwi compat mode as a service via 'kiwi compat ...' The preferred
way of calling kiwi with legacy options is via the new compat service.
Thus the documentation also changed to no longer mention the --compat
option but it still exists for compatibility reasons. Fixes#407
The --compat call will trigger the call of the kiwicompat
tool written to support legacy kiwi commandlines. An example
could look like the following call:
sudo kiwi --compat -- --build /my/description --type vmx -d /my/dest
Please be aware the -- is required to tell docopt to treat all
options as parameters
