rocky-kiwi-descriptions/README.md

## rocky-kiwi-descriptions

Kiwi descriptions for Rocky Linux 9.

`config.xml` is a symlink to `rocky.xml`. this way the symlink can just be
changed to deal with live images (as kiwi doesn't seem to support using the
--kiwi-file option for iso).

### Can't you use the same config.xml? Why are you symlinking?

Yes and the reason why we're symlinking is that "name" and "displayname" are
not flexible. They are only set/read at the very top level `<image>` (at least
from testing at the time of this writing). As our images and volume names (at
least for live images) have a very specific format, and we want it to be easy
to rename them, we did it this way.

Cloud, container, vagrant images can all use the first config, likely just fine.
The live images were the problematic ones, thus, symlinks with a default to the
`rocky.xml` config.

### I found an issue...

Please fork and make a PR! We're still learning how this tool works ourselves.

### How to try it out

You can run this on a running system, in a mock root, or a podman container. In
fact, most builds may fail in mock due to loop devices being unusable.

**Note**: SELinux must be set to permissive.

**Note**: There may be cases where a build will fail in mock. If this is the
case, you may need to use `--isolation=simple`.

**Note**: If you receive an error about loop devices while running in mock, run
this on the host instead.

#### Live Image Example (EPEL) using mock

The below makes an XFCE live image using SIG/Core packages.

```
# Use SIG/Core
% git clone https://git.resf.org/sig_core/mock-rocky-configs
% bash deploy.sh
% mock -r rl-9-x86_64-core-infra --init
% mock -r rl-9-x86_64-core-infra --install kiwi-cli git \
  dracut-kiwi-live \
  kiwi-systemdeps-{bootloaders,containers,core,disk-images,filesystems,image-validation,iso-media} \
  epel-release \
  rocky-release-core

% sudo setenforce 0
% mock -r rl-9-x86_64-core-infra --shell --enable-network
% git clone https://git.resf.org/sig_core/rocky-kiwi-descriptions -b r9
% cd rocky-kiwi-descriptions
% ln -sf configs/live-xfce.xml config.xml
% kiwi-ng --debug --type="iso" \
  --profile="XFCE-Live" \
  --color-output system \
  build \ 
  --description="./" \
  --target-dir /builddir/lmc
```

The below uses EPEL instead if you do not wish to use SIG/Core.

```
# Use EPEL
% mock -r rocky+epel-9-x86_64 --init
% mock -r rocky+epel-9-x86_64 --install kiwi-cli git \
  dracut-kiwi-live \
  kiwi-systemdeps-{bootloaders,containers,core,disk-images,filesystems,image-validation,iso-media} \
  distribution-gpg-keys \
  epel-release

% sudo setenforce 0
% mock -r rocky+epel-9-x86_64 --shell --enable-network
% git clone https://git.resf.org/sig_core/rocky-kiwi-descriptions -b r9
% cd rocky-kiwi-descriptions
% ln -sf configs/live-xfce.xml config.xml
% kiwi-ng --debug --type="iso" \
  --profile="XFCE-Live" \
  --color-output system \
  build \ 
  --description="./" \
  --target-dir /builddir/lmc
```

On the other hand, you can run the live-build.sh script after setting up your
mock environment.

```
% bash live-build.sh --live-image XFCE --output-dir /builddir/xfce
```

#### Live Image Example on Rocky Linux 9 without using mock

```
# Use SIG/Core
% dnf install rocky-release-core
% dnf install kiwi-cli git \
  dracut-kiwi-live \
  kiwi-systemdeps-{bootloaders,containers,core,disk-images,filesystems,image-validation,iso-media}

% sudo setenforce 0
% git clone https://git.resf.org/sig_core/rocky-kiwi-descriptions -b r9
% cd rocky-kiwi-descriptions
% ln -sf configs/live-xfce.xml config.xml
% kiwi-ng --debug --type="iso" \
  --profile="XFCE-Live" \
  --color-output system \
  build \ 
  --description="./" \
  --target-dir /builddir/lmc
```

If you wish to use EPEL instead...

```
% dnf install epel-release -y
% crb enable
% dnf install kiwi-cli git \
  dracut-kiwi-live \
  kiwi-systemdeps-{bootloaders,containers,core,disk-images,filesystems,image-validation,iso-media} \
  distribution-gpg-keys

% sudo setenforce 0
% git clone https://git.resf.org/sig_core/rocky-kiwi-descriptions -b r9
% cd rocky-kiwi-descriptions
% ln -sf configs/live-xfce.xml config.xml
% kiwi-ng --debug --type="iso" \
  --profile="XFCE-Live" \
  --color-output system \
  build \ 
  --description="./" \
  --target-dir /builddir/lmc
```