Mon Nov 20 09:21:06 UTC 2023 - Fredrik Lönnegren
- update to v19:
* Support for RHEL was added!
* Added journalctl and coredumpctl verbs for running the respective tools on
built directory or disk images.
* Added a burn verb to write the output image to a block device.
* Added a new esp output format, which is large similar to the existing uki
output format but wraps it in a disk image with only an ESP.
* Presets were renamed to Images. mkosi.images/ is now used instead of
mkosi.presets/, the Presets= setting was renamed to Images= and the Presets
section was merged into the Config section. The old names can still be used
for backwards compatibility.
* Added profiles to support building variants of the same image in one
repository. Profiles can be defined in mkosi.profiles/ and one can be
selected using the new Profile= setting.
* mkosi will now parse mkosi.local.conf before any other config files if that
exists.
* Added a kernel-install plugin. This is only shipped in source tree and not
included in the Python module.
* Added a --json option to get the output of mkosi summary as JSON.
* Added shorthand -a for --autologin.
* Scripts with the .chroot extension are now executed in the image
automatically.
* Added rpm helper script to have rpm automatically operate on the image when
running scripts.
* Added mkosi-as-caller helper script that can be used in scripts to run
commands as the user invoking mkosi.
* mkosi-chroot will now start a shell if no arguments are specified.
* Added WithRecommends= to configure whether to install recommended packages
by default or not where this is supported. It is disabled by default.
* Added ToolsTreeMirror= setting for configuring the mirror to use for the
default tools tree.
* WithDocs= is now enabled by default.
* Added BuildSourcesEphemeral= to make source directories ephemeral when
running scripts. This means any changes made to source directories while
running scripts will be undone after the scripts have finished executing.
* Added QemuDrives= to have mkosi create extra qemu drives and pass them to
qemu when using the qemu verb.
* Added BuildSources= match to match against configured build source targets.
* PackageManagerTrees= was moved to the Distribution section.
* We now automatically configure the qemu firmware, kernel cmdline and initrd
based on what type of kernel is passed by the user via -kernel or
QemuKernel=.
* The mkosi repository itself now ships configuration to build basic bootable
images that can be used to test mkosi.
* Added support for enabling updates-testing repositories for Fedora.
* GPG keys for CentOS, Fedora, Alma and Rocky are now looked up locally first
before fetching them remotely.
* Signatures are not required for local packages on Arch anymore.
* Packages on opensuse are now always downloaded in advance before
installation when using zypper.
* The tar output is now reproducible.
* We now make sure git can be executed from mkosi scripts without running
into permission errors.
* We don't create subdirectories beneath the configured cache directory anymore.
* Workspace directories are now created outside of any source directories.
mkosi will either use XDG_CACHE_HOME, $HOME/.cache or /var/tmp depending on
the situation.
* Added environment variable MKOSI_DNF to override which dnf to use for
building images (dnf or dnf5).
* The rootfs can now be modified when running build scripts (with all changes
thrown away after the last build script has been executed).
* mkosi now fails if configuration specified via the CLI does not apply to
any image (because it is overridden).
* Added a new doc on building rpms from source with mkosi
(docs/building-rpms-from-source.md).
* /etc/resolv.conf will now only be mounted for scripts when they are run
with network access.