In addition to the existing root/ overlay directory which
applies always there can now also be profile specific overlay
directories. If an overlay directory should be applied for
a specific profile this can now be done by placing this data
in a directory that is named the same as the profile name.
The new element controls the behavior of the repart/resize code
in the oem-repart dracut module. By default the repart/resize
happens on every reboot and therefore also allows for disk
geometry changes during the livetime of the machine. If the
element is set to false the repart/resize operation happens
only once and then never again. To check for this condition
a new profile environment variable kiwi_rootpartuuid which
holds the PARTUUID of the root partition has been added to
the disk builder.
With the new Fstab class from prior pull request there is an
opportunity to handle all fstab related actions to be done
by that class. This commit extends the Fstab class with an
add_entry method such that we can avoid the extra lists
holding raw fstab lines in e.g the disk builder. In the end
all fstab related data is stored in an instance of the Fstab
class. This also extends the KIWI api by an fstab management
class. Related to #1329 and #1349
Added a static list of mountpoints used for devices that
are not associated with a physical device like /proc and
use that information in the exclude list for calculating
the image byte size. This Fixes#1363
Systems using a template tool to generate config files
might not be effective when they see the intermediate
config files we need from the host to let certain package
managers work correctly. Therefore the cleanup code in
kiwi takes care to restore from an optionally existing
template file if no other custom variant is present.
This Fixes bsc#1163978
This commit makes sure to empty RPM macros files are created during
the build. Additionally it also ensures that no needless `rm` and `mkdir`
calls are done.
Fixes#1316
This commit refactors the use of Path.which in several parts of the
code. Since dd4d2ed78 the Path utility is capable to run Path.which
on certain chroot env, thus no need to adapt the PATH environment
variable.
Fixes#1281
This commit removes the RootBind.move_to_root method as this can all be
done by using the Path.move_to_root utility method. This allows
to drop the RootBind attribute in PackageManager classes and focus
path manipulation methods into a common utility.
Related to #1281
For the lookup of the kernel version kiwi provided a small
C program that reads the first bytes of the kernel binary
and extracts the version information. Given the various
compression formats and also the problem of kernel files
that contains the decompressor code which could be anything
it has turned out to be difficult to provide a stable tool
to read the version from the binary. Therefore the code in
kiwi was refactored to read the version via regexp match
from the filename which also makes kversion an obsolete
tool. This Fixes#1308
Post image build metadata like the packages file which are
created from data produced by the package manager can contain
multibyte characters and should be written into files opened
with the UTF-8 encoding. The same applies to the image imported
XML description. This Fixes#1290
In an OEM deployment that requested the creation of a swap
partition via <oem-swap> that swap partition was created
at first boot and was always the last partition on the disk.
This was required because it could not be placed before
any other partition without destroying those partition
contents. This process leaves the system in an inflexible
condition if the storage device can change its geometry
dynamicly as it's the case for SAN systems. The typical
deployment target for OEM images are SAN storage clusters
and it's cumbersome to resize the root partition if swap
is last.
This commit Fixes#1231 and changes the handling of swap if
requested via <oem-swap> as follows:
1. The swap space is created as part of the image build process
and no longer on first boot of the image via dracut code.
This increases the size of the non compressed .raw disk image
by the configured swap space size or the default. The
compressed versions are not affected since zero initialized
swap space compresses to almost no space. Deployment of
the image however also deploys the swap partition which
increases deployment time. For big swap configurations
it's advisable to switch off image verification via
oem-skip-verify. For very big swap configurations it's
also recommended to prevent kiwi from adding them as part
of the image and let them be created on first boot via
a systemd service that e.g places a swap file, or creates
a swap volume when possible such that the fexibility to
resize the rootfs is still available.
2. The setup of the swap space is now explicit. It's no longer
calculated by twice times RAM size because on newer machines
this could lead to huge numbers. Either the kiwi encoded
default swap size applies or the user configured value.
3. LVM based oem disks creates the swap space as logical volume.
The volume is created as part of the image build process
and no longer on first boot. The swap volume at build time
of the image is of a minimal size and gets resized on first
boot.
4. The move of the swap creation into the builder code also
handles swap per configured device persistency schema like
any other devices. This means by default swap is mounted
via by-uuid name and thus also Fixes#1259
This commit allows the use of relative paths for local URIs using the
the following format:
dir:<path>
This is helpful to set in config.xml local URIs for repositories.
Fixes#1261
This commit makes home attribute of users definition optional. This way
the home directory is created according to the distribution defaults.
Note that `-m` option is passed to user add, thus the home directory is
requested to be created even without having an explicit home path
defined.
Fixes#1025
