Using rd.kiwi.term will export the TERM variable into the initrd
environment. In case the default value for the terminal emulation
is not appropriate rd.kiwi.term can be used to overwrite the default.
The environment is also passed to the systemd unit which calls
dialog based programs in kiwi dracut code, such that the TERM
setting will be effective there too. For example:
rd.kiwi.term=vt100
This is related to bsc#1218095
With Sphinx >= 6.0.0, jQuery is no longer included but the rtd theme's search
functionality needs it. The theme was changed to load sphinxcontrib-jquery
automatically with https://github.com/readthedocs/sphinx_rtd_theme/pull/1399,
but kiwi broke this fix by loading the theme in the wrong way.
Now that the theme is loaded properly, the search functionality also works
with newer versions of sphinx again and the version pinning can be lifted.
This Fixes: #2462
Allow specifying the filesystem for live image, also direct squashfs
By setting <type image="iso" filesystem="FSTYPE" .../> it's now possible
to specify the filesystem used for live images. By using "squashfs", the
rootfs container is skipped entirely.
If there is the file /.profile.extra available in the
initrd, kiwi will import this additional environment file
after the import of the standard /.profile file.
This is related to bsc#1218095
The kiwi.pdf file as provided in the kiwi-man-pages package
was never really used by our users but comes with a huge
dependency chain to LaTex. We provide the documentation
online as well as converted to DocBook from where all other
formats could be derived. Thus there is no need for us to
produce an extra PDF document which is imho never consulted.
In addition to this change also the contributing chapter has
been reworked. Due to recent changes and drop of obsolete
components from kiwi as well as the effort to move the development
setup to poetry, there is only one non python tool needed
for the development of kiwi. The check for this tool has been
moved into the Makefile and all other checks formerly done
in the helper/install_devel_packages script were deleted.
Change the LoopDevice class to be a context manager.
All code using LoopDevice was updated to the following
with statement:
with LoopDevice(...) as loop_provider:
loop_provider.some_member()
This is related to Issue #2412
The grub terminal setup is divided into the setting for the output
and the input console. For both settings different parameters exists.
So far kiwi did not differentiate between the two parts of the
console setup and that could lead to a wrong setting if only one
value is provided in kiwi's console= attribute which lead to the
grub setting, GRUB_TERMINAL=value. If value is set to e.g gfxterm
grub takes this for both input and output and it's obviously
wrong for the input. To make this less error prune the kiwi code
changes with this commit to set GRUB_TERMINAL_INPUT and
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT rather than GRUB_TERMINAL and also runs sanity
checks on the provided values if they are applicable. The information
for setting up the console in the schema stays untouched though.
That's because it's used for all bootloaders and also because grub
supports multiple values for the console in/out setting in one
GRUB_TERMINAL variable even though kiwi does no longer use it.
To make this clear for the users also the documentation for the
console attribute setup has been updated. If we want to wish two
distinct attributes for input and output console settings a schema
change and also differentiation between bootloaders is needed and
that I only see for the kiwi-10 branch if at all. This Fixes#2419
Add rd.kiwi.oem.installdevice=DEVICE. Configures the disk device
that should be used in an OEM installation. This overwrites any
other oem device setting, e.g device filter or maxdisk and just
continues the installation on the given device. However, the
device must exist and must be a block special.
This Fixes jira#PED-7180
The behavior documentation regarding the fstab entry when
using the btrfs_set_default_volume attribute was wrong.
This commit fixes the docs to match the code. Related
to Issue #2366
A root (/) entry in fstab for btrfs is only required if no
default volume is configured. This commit adapts the code
path which adds an fstab entry for (/) to be effective only
if btrfs_set_default_volume is set to false.
Additionally, the documentation around btrfs_set_default_volume
was clarified to describe the behavior the switch triggers.
This Fixes#2366
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) has KIWI as a package.
However, some KIWI plugins and their dependencies can
be unavailable.
This commit introduces a new section which deals with this
aspect.
Fixes bsc#1209302
