github systemd/mkosi v24

latest releases: v24.3, v24.2, v24.1...
4 months ago
  • The default kernel command line of console=ttyS0 (or equivalent for
    other architectures) has been removed. The required console=
    argument to have the kernel output to the serial console has to be
    added manually from v24 onwards.
  • Support for installing local packages located in directories in
    BuildSources= was dropped. Instead, the packages can be made
    available for installation via PackageManagerTrees=.
  • Configuration parsing was reworked to remove the need for the @
    specifier and to streamline building multiple images with
    mkosi.images/. If you were building multiple images with
    mkosi.images/, you'll need to adapt your configuration to the
    rework. Read the Building multiple images section in the
    documentation for more information.
  • mkosi has gained the option to generate completion scripts for bash,
    fish and zsh. Packagers should generate the scripts during packaging
    and ship them in the appropriate places.
  • Added support for CentOS Stream 10.
  • mkosi now installs a separate mkosi-initrd script that can be used
    to build initramfs images intended for use on the local system.
  • We do not automatically append centos-stream or fedora anymore to
    CentOS (and derivatives) and Fedora mirrors specified with Mirror=
    as not all mirrors store the repository metadata under these
    subdirectories. Users are now required to add these subdirectories
    themselves in Mirror=. If the EPEL repositories are enabled for
    CentOS Stream (and derivatives) and Mirror= is used, we look for the
    EPEL repositories in ../fedora relative to the mirror specified in
    Mirror=.
  • We now support compressed tar archives wherever we already accept tar
    archives as input.
  • We now always rerun the build if Format=none and don't remove
    previous outputs in that case (unless --force is specified). This
    allows using mkosi -t none to rerun the build scripts without
    removing the previous image. This can then be combined with
    RuntimeBuildSources=yes to make the build script outputs available
    in a booted container or virtual machine so they can be installed
    without having to rebuild the image.
  • We now use virtconsole to provide the serial console when booting
    with qemu.
  • root=PARTUUID and mount.usr=PARTUUID on the kernel command line
    are now automatically extended with the actual PARTUUID of the
    corresponding partition.
  • All available OpenSUSE repositories are now supported and can be
    enabled with Repositories=.
  • Building OpenSUSE aarch64 images is now supported
  • mkosi dependencies was beefed up to handle more scenarios properly
  • The default list of kernel modules that are always added to the
    initramfs was extended with various virtualization modules.
  • Added a Repositories= match.
  • Cached images are now invalidated if packages specified via
    PackageDirectories= change.
  • Added VolatilePackageDirectories= which can be used to provide local
    packages that do not invalidate cached images.
  • mkosi.pkgmngr is now used as the default path for
    PackageManagerTrees=.
  • The package directory that build scripts can use to make built
    packages available for installation ($PACKAGEDIR) is now shared
    between all image builds. This means that packages built in earlier
    images and stored in $PACKAGEDIR become available for installation
    in all subsequent image builds.
  • The default tools tree distribution is now chosen based on the host
    distribution instead of the target distribution.
  • mkosi can now be invoked from the initramfs.

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