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