SYSLINUX has been abandoned for several years now, and it does not
even work with modern versions of the filesystems supported in kiwi.
This commit drops it and Fixes#2433
Create proper EFI FAT image via bootctl to be used as
alt loader in xorriso. This allows to boot the ISO
via EFI e.g kvm -bios /usr/share/qemu/ovmf-x86_64.bin -cdrom file.iso
Please note, hybrid boot is done via grub's hybrid MBR and
as systemd-boot does not provide one, hybrid boot is out
of scope yet. This Fixes#2281
The modifications in this commit allows the unit tests
to run on both, pytest 6.x (nose test layout) and the new
pytest 7.x (xunit test layout). This Fixes#2072 in a
much nicer way. Thanks much to @smarlowucf
Previously the image for the ESP was created inside the source directory
for the ISO9660 filesystem, so it ended up there as well as a separate
partition. Fix that by creating it as a temporary file instead.
Tools like mkisofs, genisoimage and friends are all unmaintained
and have found their substitute in xorriso for quite some time.
This commit deletes the code from kiwi which supported creation
of ISO images using the obsolete cdrtools collection. In addition
all hack code associated with these tools like mbr insertion via
isohybrid and things like that got dropped as well.
This Fixes#1908
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
This commit refactors the IsoTools class and turns it into a
proper factory class and also includes type hints to facilitate
it's use from an API POV. Related to #1498
This commit adds support for pacman package manager and, in
consequence, support for Arch Linux images. It also adds
the package definition for Arch Linux.
