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gpp_maybe Recommended update for python-kiwi, open-vmdk
SUSE-SLE-Micro-Extras-6.2-1183

This update for python-kiwi, open-vmdk fixes the following issues: Changes in python-kiwi: - Fix rereading DASD partition table with partprobe On s390 and with a DASD disk the rereading of the partition table can only be done properly with partprobe. This commit changes the dracut code to Require parted and partprobe only for DASD disks on s390. In addition this commit prevents the active device locking for parted and partprobe when called in the context of a DASD device. The reason for this change is because of a patch in libparted which applies flock() itself in this condition. This change however does not exist in the upstream version of parted which is causing problems that are hard to solve by kiwi. However, a dead-lock condition should be avoided and I think it's still better to have this change in kiwi and convince people to upstream the above parted fix, rather than living with a dead-lock condition due to double locking in kiwi. This Fixes bsc#1263973 - Do not hardcode dracut omit module in live builder This is a relict from the old days when the pure presence of multipath in a live ISO caused issues at boot time. kiwi should not maintain a hardcoded list of dracut modules except for those that are mandatory for live boot, if there should be any special setting needed it should come from an overlay setup in /etc/dracut.conf.d/*.conf as part of the image description. This is related to bsc#1260340 - Drop parted requirement for msdos partitioner parted was used in kiwi at one place to set the active flag on a partition in the DOS table. This action can also be done via sfdisk and drops the parted requirement from the kiwi builder code - Move OVA support to open-vmdk Finally this commit drops the use of the VMware ovftool and moves to the real opensource alternative open-vmdk This Fixes #2292 and Fixes #2627 and Fixes jira#PED-9497 - Limit workflow to SLE supported pythons - Refactor use of kiwi settings file KIWI supports an optional runtime configuration file for settings to control the behavior of the tools used by KIWI on the build host. So far this config file could be specified via --config or is searched in the user's HOME or looked up as /etc/kiwi.yml. With this commit the following changes to this heuristic are made: 1. Support reading of /etc/kiwi.yml.d/*.yml 2. Support reading of /usr/share/kiwi/kiwi.yml and /usr/share/kiwi/kiwi.yml.d/*.yml 3. Install default settings file as /usr/share/kiwi/kiwi.yml.example from the main package and drop it from kiwi-man-pages which was considered a weird place. - Add support for oci format for disk images The (oci|docker):image_format format is a special case that stores the disk image inside of an OCI-compliant container. The disk image is stored in the specified image_format in the disk/ directory of the container. The disk format can be one of the above formats or just raw if the disk should be stored as a raw disk inside of the container. Custom naming conventions for the disk image can be applied by using the bundle_format attribute. The derived_from attribute can be used to specify the source container. The resulting container image will be built by adding the disk image as a new layer on top of the specified reference container. If there is no derived_from attribute, the container image will be built from scratch using an empty root directory. This format is particularly useful for building an image which bundles the actual disk image and its runtime requirements into one artifact. This Fixes jira#PCT-1008 - Fix caller environment for non chroot scripts Make sure non chroot scripts also knows about the kiwi profile environment such that e.g. the current profile name or other settings from the build can be used in the script - Update spec file due to new package restrictions On SUSE new package restrictions where added to support the concept of the so called immutable mode. The new guideline says "Any files in the RPM spec %files section that are not in /usr or /etc is likely to break in Immutable Mode". For the kiwi packaging this applies to the kiwi-pxeboot sub package. This commit implements the suggested solution based on systemd-tmpfiles and only applies for SUSE. This Fixes jira#PCT-1055 - Fix result bundler for uncompressed container data When building container images with the respective runtime configuration: ```yaml container: - compress: false ``` The resulting image output files will be uncompressed meaning there is no ".xz" extension present. When running the result bundler there is an index bug which causes the container format type of the filename name e.g. ".docker" to be dropped from the result names. This commit fixes it. - Fix spec file requirements for SUSE There is no erofs on SLES. This commit drops the respective requirement settings which we have upstream where it exists This Fixes jira#PCT-899 - Fix upstream merge README - Support SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH for OCI containers (jsc#PED-15927) If SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is available, use it for the container creation time and history. open-vmdk is shipped as new package.

  • Release Date
    Jul 8 2026
  • References
    Bugzilla: 1260340, 1263973
  • Type
    recommended
  • Severity
    important

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SUSE Linux Micro Extras 6.2 aarch64
  • Packages
    kiwi-systemdeps-core
    KIWI - Core host system dependencies
    10.2.33-160000.3.1 lock rpm
    open-vmdk
    Tools to create OVA files from raw disk images
    0.3.12-160000.1.1 lock rpm
    python3-kiwi
    KIWI - Appliance Builder Next Generation
    10.2.33-160000.3.1 lock rpm
SUSE Linux Micro Extras 6.2 ppc64le
  • Packages
    kiwi-systemdeps-core
    KIWI - Core host system dependencies
    10.2.33-160000.3.1 lock rpm
    open-vmdk
    Tools to create OVA files from raw disk images
    0.3.12-160000.1.1 lock rpm
    python3-kiwi
    KIWI - Appliance Builder Next Generation
    10.2.33-160000.3.1 lock rpm
SUSE Linux Micro Extras 6.2 s390x
  • Packages
    kiwi-systemdeps-core
    KIWI - Core host system dependencies
    10.2.33-160000.3.1 lock rpm
    open-vmdk
    Tools to create OVA files from raw disk images
    0.3.12-160000.1.1 lock rpm
    python3-kiwi
    KIWI - Appliance Builder Next Generation
    10.2.33-160000.3.1 lock rpm
SUSE Linux Micro Extras 6.2 x86_64
  • Packages
    kiwi-systemdeps-core
    KIWI - Core host system dependencies
    10.2.33-160000.3.1 lock rpm
    open-vmdk
    Tools to create OVA files from raw disk images
    0.3.12-160000.1.1 lock rpm
    python3-kiwi
    KIWI - Appliance Builder Next Generation
    10.2.33-160000.3.1 lock rpm