[Bug 2013077] Re: RFC: add Kiwi support to livecd-rootfs

[John Chittum]

What is NemOS? I'm a little lost on understanding the need for the
support in livecd-rootfs generally. If i'mi reading this, and the MPs
correctly, it's related to devices supporting a specific customer, and
having the ability to build the OS for them?

this is the first I've seen of NemOS. Since we're working on build tools
other than livecd-rootfs for future releases, it'll be helpful for me to
understand the general context (if it's proprietary info, feel free to
send it to me on an internal Canonical platform).

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Title:
  RFC: add Kiwi support to livecd-rootfs

Status in livecd-rootfs package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  I discussed a while ago with the Launchpad team about potentially
  adding support for Kiwi to livecd-rootfs, and thus eventually adding
  it to Launchpad in the future. I've now looked more closely into this
  and I've put together a merge proposal [1] with my changes and I'd
  love to get some feedback.

  The idea is to use a checked repository [2] or a package like the one
  that is build from that repository and available in a PPA [3] as the
  image configuration. This repository/contains the Kiwi "appliance
  description", which instructs the Kiwi build tool on how to build the
  system.

  For reference, the upstream Kiwi repository is here [4] and the docs
  here [5].

  I've tested the workflow with the nemos-image .deb package from the
  PPA and the following commands:

  $ ARCH=amd64 SUITE=lunar PROJECT=kiwi SUBPROJECT=nemos/nemos-images-reference-lunar live-build/auto/config  
  $ ARCH=amd64 SUITE=lunar PROJECT=kiwi SUBPROJECT=nemos/nemos-images-reference-lunar live-build/auto/build

  The SUBPROJECT refers to a Kiwi description in /usr/share/kiwi/, but
  can be overriden to be an arbitrary path by setting the
  KIWI_DESCRIPTION variable.

  [1] https://code.launchpad.net/~itrue/livecd-rootfs/+git/livecd-rootfs/+merge/439825
  [2] https://git.launchpad.net/~nemos-team/nemos/+git/nemos-images/tree/
  [3] https://launchpad.net/~nemos-team/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
  [4] https://github.com/OSInside/kiwi
  [5] https://osinside.github.io/kiwi/overview.html

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