Note: rebasing is not supported by MicroOS, this project is unofficial and lacking in various aspects.
microos-rebase-tools are a set of tools that can reinstall a MicroOS system in-place,
either via an autogenerated kiwi config, via a custom one, from a tarball containing
the new rootfs or from an OCI registry.
- etcrebase
- podman
- python3-kiwi
You can rebuild your installation by supplying a list of pattern/packages to microos-rebase.
sudo microos-rebase /<target> patterns-microos-desktop-gnome
Warning: you might need to temporairly disable SELinux enforcing with sudo setenforce 0. Using
the boxbuild plugin might work as well, but it has not been tested yet.
sudo microos-rebase /<target> https://build.opensuse.org/source/devel:microos:aeon:images/aeon-self-installer/aeon-self-installer.kiwi
Note: the SELinux warning above applies here too. Most existing kiwi configurations file don't work out-of-the-box,
as they might reference unreachable repositories. You can tweak how microos-rebase interacts with kiwi with
command line arguments. Every argument prefixed with --kiwi- will be passed to the kiwi system prepare command.
For example, --kiwi-add-package=geany will invoke kiwi with --add-package=geany. You can use this feature
to make a kiwi configuration buildable. See kiwi system prepare -h for more details.
sudo microos-rebase /<target> /path/to/rootfs.tar.gz
You can also specify a remote URL, and that will be fetched and extracted.
sudo microos-rebase /<target> oci://registry.opensuse.org/home/epaolantonio/microos-images/containers/aeon:latest
Fetches an OCI image from the registry, and unpacks it into the target.