In addition to the serialized Result instance kiwi.result
file this commit also creates a portable version of this
information in kiwi.result.json. Only the information that
can be expressed as json document is part of the portable
version. This is related to Issue #1918
Include the README as long description in the metadata
for pypi. The change causes the description on pypi.org
to show the ReST rendered README instead of a message
that the author of the module hasn't provided a description
The way kiwi uses setup.py assumes that pip runs this script
like a spec file in rpm is processed. However this is not the
case given that pip implicitly creates a static zip file called
wheel which looses all the code logic done in setup.py. Therefore
setup.py should not contain code that needs to run at install
time. Of course this change comes with an effect which is that
the following files will not be available when installing kiwi
from pip:
* man pages: /usr/share/man/man8/...
* command completion: /etc/bash_completion.d/kiwi-ng.sh
* kiwi default config file: /etc/kiwi.yml
* package docs: /usr/share/doc/packages/kiwi-ng/...
(kiwi.pdf, LICENSE, README)
kiwi stays fully functional without this information. It is
expected that the installation of kiwi as a service will
be done by a package and its package manager. When using kiwi
from pip it is designed to provide a python module but not
a complete user application. The way pip and wheels interact
with each other seems to demonstrate that pip is not a
package manager but more a python module manager.
This Fixes#1415
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.
This commit instead of installing kiwi-ng-3 and kiwicompat-3 as
console_scripts it makes use of kiwi-ng and kiwicompat. Then all others
are created as symlinks at rpm level in spec.
Fixes#1226
Most Linux distributions offer the pyxattr module, including
openSUSE Tumbleweed. Going forward, we will use the pyxattr
module by default as a dependency and only switch back to the
other xattr module when on older SUSE Linux distributions that
lack the pyxattr module.
Note that because kiwi uses setuptools to create the CLI entry
points, kiwi checks the Python dependencies before executing,
so we change the dependency in the setup.py accordingly so that
it will not fail to start.
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
The default `setup.py clean` command does not clean `dist` and
`*.egg-info` folders. This commit makes sure those are cleaned and
also ands a `setup.py clean` command in the `clean` Makefile target
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
pip calls the install target but not the build target.
For kiwi's tools this means they need to run the tools
compilation if not already done prior to the installation
of the tools
In an effort to distribute kiwi on pypi it should not be
required to call make targets for a complete installation.
Therefore the compilation of the C tools as well as the
installation of the man pages and the bash completion
has been added to setup.py. The spec file to build an rpm
package has been changed to use setup.py exclusively
* setup.py:
- use setuptools always, no need to check for distutils
- include keywords 'include_package_data', 'zip_safe', and 'classifiers'
* setup.cfg:
- add bdist_wheel and sdist section
* Add missing MANIFEST.in (needed for setup.py dist)
* Remove executable bit for LICENSE and README.md
