Using SUSE Product ISO To Build

When building an image with KIWI NG, the image description usually points to a number of public/private package source repositories from which the new image root tree will be created. Alternatively, the vendor-provided product ISO image(s) can be used. The contents of the ISO (DVD) media also provide package source repositories but are organized in a vendor-specific structure. As a user, it’s important to know about this structure so that the KIWI NG image description can consume it.

To use a SUSE product media, the following steps are required:

Mount the ISO media from the file or DVD drive:

$ sudo mount Product_ISO_file.iso|DVD_drive /media/suse

Lookup all Product and Module directories:

Below /media/suse, there is a directory structure that provides package repositories in directories starting with Product-XXX and Module-XXX. It depends on the package list in the KIWI NG image description from which location a package or a dependency of the package is taken. Therefore, it is best practice to browse through all the directories and create a <repository> definition for each of them in the KIWI NG image description, as the following example shows:
```
<repository alias="DVD-1-Product-SLES">
    <source path="file:///media/suse/Product-SLES"/>
</repository>

<repository alias="DVD-1-Module-Basesystem">
    <source path="file:///media/suse/Module-Basesystem"/>
</repository>
```

Once all the individual product and module repos have been created in the KIWI NG image description, the build process can be started as usual.

Note

Because of the manual mount process, the /media/suse location stays busy after KIWI NG has created the image. The cleanup of this resource is the responsibility of the user and not done by KIWI NG.