This commit adds a missing dependency on dracut-kiwi-oem-dump
package. In images where The `kpartx` tool is missing the
dracut-kiwi-oem-dump was not applied for the initrd.
Fixes#1364
Only on suse systems btrfs is eligable to be a required package
because it's the default filesystem of that distribution. In any
other case it should be a recommended package. As a side effect
of this change we will be able to activate the CentOS-8 build
target
With this commit we start requiring tftp system user package. This
user was created and managed by multiple packages before, with the
risk of having inconsistent criteria on its defaults. Now there there
a system user package so whatever package that requries this user should
just require this package and do not create or modify the tftp user.
Related with bsc#1143454
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
The kiwi-man-pages package provided data that belongs to
the main package, e.g the completion as well as the
license information. In addition kiwi-man-pages should
not be a requirement.
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
Not all distributions provides the grub linuxefi module anymore.
This means a static list for building an efi grub image if needed
is no longer appropriate. This patch changes the module handling
at the following places
1. Use linuxefi for building custom efi modules only if present
on the host system
2. Use linuxefi related grub2-mkconfig variables only if the
host grub2-mkconfig implementation supports it
3. Prevent building custom efi image on Fedora by extending
the search path for the distro provided efi image and also
adapt the spec file accordingly
Installation of multipath tools triggers storage devices
to be handled as multipath maps in dracut. If the deployment
happens in a non multipath system those devices do not exist
and the system later hangs in the dracut initqueue waiting
for mapper devices that never appears
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.
On suse systems the python-xattr module is used. On any other
distribution the python-pyxattr module is used. This commit
modifies the spec file to reflect the Requires tag appropriately.
On CentOS there is currently no pyxattr build available. Thus we
provide that package for this target in the KIWI Staging area
at Virtualization:Appliances:Staging. There is an ongoing effort
to bring pyxattr to EPEL which would make it available on CentOS
and would obsolete the custom build we did.
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
- build the documentation in the build_doc stage
- run tests for all supported Python versions in tox_check
- build an RPM for Fedora 29 & OpenSUSE Tumbleweed in RPM stage
In e33f53aa45, we switched to DNF when requesting YUM.
This now means we need to ensure DNF is installed for images where
we previously used YUM for that.
YUM v3 is no longer developed, having been superseded by DNF for
several years. With DNF now available as a usable package manager
in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 through the Extras channel and
SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 through PackageHub, there is no reason for
keeping support for YUM v3 around.
We are keeping support for requesting YUM because in Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7, DNF is referred to as "YUM v4", and it is simply referred to
as "YUM" in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. To avoid confusion from people,
we're just going to leave it in place as an alias to the DNF package
manager.
As for why this is happening now, Fedora is retiring YUM v3 in
Fedora 31, so we might as well get it over with and cut over now.
Reference: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Retire_YUM_3
The completion can only be provided by one package if not
python version specific completion files are provided. Due
to the fix in #920 the completion file must be provided by
another sub-package. This commit moves it to the
kiwi-man-pages package. Actually kiwi man pages provides
more than just the man pages, but also the PDF documentation
and I think the completion information serves the purpose of
documentation to some degree too.
The bash completion file must match one of the alternatives links.
Otherwise the bash completion mechanism will not match. kiwi-ng is
the unique alternative link name compared to the still present
legacy kiwi version and should be used preferably
dracut-kiwi-live requires `partprobe` tool and this is provided by
parted package. Persistent overlay setup fails if parted is not
installed in the image.
This commit fixes the spec to properly build for Debian and Ubuntu.
More specific:
* update-alternatives path has been adapted
* python3-kiwi are now enabled for Debian 9 and Ubuntu 18.04
gfxboot is needed on the host for certain boot graphics
operations. It's used if the boot theme provides a gfxboot.cfg
In this case the tool is also required. The setup of the
boot themes is differently implemented in each of the
distributions we support. In addition on suse distributions
gfxboot is no longer in the core system. Given that we are
not able to find a common base on requirement of the package
we changed gfxboot from a required to a recommended package
and deleted the requirement on debian based distros
The spec file uses the %{_defaultdocdir} macro but the
corresponding Makefile target used a hardcoded path which
lead to inconsistencies on debian/ubuntu based systems.
This Fixes#838
btrfs tools are provided by btrfs-tools package and not by
btrfs-progs. In addition dracut-network is a separate package
on debian/ubuntu based distributions. This Fixes#837
Bundle a PDF version of the online documentation with the rpm package
build. Due to the complexity of getting a latex build environment into
the travis CI which does not take forever to install, the bundling of
a built PDF into the pypi archive has been skipped. Users installing
from pypi would need to install a latex env on their machine and
run make latexpdf from the installed bundle.
This Fixes#819
The dracut modules like kiwi provides it should not be part of the
default install target. If kiwi gets installed from source or via
pip all dracut code gets installed on that system which is unwanted
and in the worst case leads to boot trouble next time this system
rebuilds its initrd via dracut. Therefore an extra Makefile target
which is used in the spec of an rpm but not in the install target
of setup.py is provided in this commit.
As a consequence the installation from pip will not install any
dracut modules on that system which is intentional. Installing from
source requires to run make install_dracut which if called assumes
the caller knows what he/she does :)
In fate#323743 the decision was made to drop dmraid from
the distribution. Along with the low business case for those
controllers and the support for linux softraid via mdadm
we also drop the support in kiwi for oem-ataraid-scan
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
This adds support for producing the main kiwi package as well as the
packages for the dracut modules to be used when building Debian-based
distribution images with KIWI.
The Debian/Ubuntu package is built using debbuild: https://github.com/ascherer/debbuild
