8 | mic [GLOBAL-OPTS] create SUBCOMMAND <ksfile> [OPTION]
9 | mic [GLOBAL-OPTS] chroot [OPTION] <imgfile>
14 The tools `mic` is used to create and manipulate images for Linux distributions.
15 It is composed of two subcommand: `create`, `chroot`.
22 This command is used to create various images, including loop.
25 | mic [GLOBAL-OPTS] create(cr) SUBCOMMAND <ksfile> [OPTION]
29 | auto auto detect image type from magic header
30 | fs create fs image, which is also chroot directory
31 | loop create loop image, including multi-partitions
32 | qcow create qcow image
36 -h, --help show the help message
37 --logfile=LOGFILE specify the path of logfile, save the output to logfile LOGFILE
38 -c CONFIG, --config=CONFIG specify configure file for mic, default is /etc/mic/mic.conf
39 -k CACHEDIR, --cachedir=CACHEDIR cache directory used to store the downloaded files and packages
40 -o OUTDIR, --outdir=OUTDIR directory used to locate the output image and files
41 -A ARCH, --arch=ARCH specify repo architecture, genarally mic would detect the architecture, if existed more than one architecture, mic would give hint to you
42 --local-pkgs-path=LOCAL_PKGS_PATH specify the path for local rpm packages, which would be stored your own rpm packages
43 --pkgmgr=PKGMGR specify backend package mananger, currently yum and zypp available
44 --record-pkgs=RECORD_PKGS record the info of installed packages, multiple values can be specified which joined by ",", valid values: "name", "content", "license"
45 --pack-to=PACK_TO pack the images together into the specified achive, extension supported: .zip, .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, etc. by default, .tar will be used
46 --release=RID generate a release of RID with all necessary files, when @BUILD_ID@ is contained in kickstart file, it will be replaced by RID. sample values: "latest", "tizen_20120101.1"
47 --copy-kernel copy kernel files from image /boot directory to the image output directory
48 --runtime=RUNTIME Specify runtime mode, avaiable: bootstrap
49 --install-pkgs=INSTALL_PKGS Specify what type of packages to be installed, valid: source, debuginfo, debugsource
50 --check-pkgs=CHECK_PKGS Check if given packages would be installed, packages should be separated by comma
51 --tmpfs Setup tmpdir as tmpfs to accelerate, experimental feature, use it if you have more than 4G memory
52 --strict-mode Abort creation of image, if there are some errors during rpm installation
55 --include-src generate a image with source rpms included; to enable it, user should specify the source repo in the ks file
57 Options for loop image:
58 --shrink whether to shrink loop images to minimal size
59 --compress-image=COMPRESS_IMAGE compress all loop images with 'gz' or 'bz2' or 'lzo'
60 --compress-disk-image=COMPRESS_DISK_IMAGE same with --compress-image
64 | mic create loop tizen.ks
65 | mic cr fs tizen.ks --local-pkgs-path=localrpm
69 This command is used to chroot inside the image, it's a great enhancement of chroot command in linux system.
73 | mic chroot(ch) <imgfile>
77 -h, --help show the help message
78 -s SAVETO, --saveto=SAVETO save the unpacked image to specified directory SAVETO
86 The advanced usage is just for bootstrap, please skip it if you don't care about it.
88 The major purpose to use bootstrap is that some important packages (like rpm) are customized
89 a lot in the repo which you want to create image, and mic must use the customized rpm to
90 create images, or the images can't be boot. So mic will create a bootstrap using the repo
91 in the ks file at first, then create the image via chrooting, which can make mic using the
92 chroot environment with the customized rpm.
94 Now mic will use bootstrap to create image by default, and to meet your requirement, you can
95 also change the setting for bootstrap (/etc/mic/bootstrap.conf):
98 | # which distro will be used for creating bootstrap
100 | # which dir will be located when creating bootstrap
101 | rootdir = /var/tmp/mic-bootstrap
102 | # whether to enable the bootstrap mode
105 | [tizen] # the supported distro for creating bootstrap
106 | # which packages will be optional when creating bootstrap for this distro
108 | # which packages will be required when creating bootstrap for this distro
113 Bug of latest syslinux package
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115 In some new Linux distributions, the "syslinux" package in their official
116 software repositories is the version 4.04. It will cause segment fault for
117 a fatal bug, and mic will failed with syslinux installation errors.
119 The solution is to install the patched "syslinux" package in MeeGo or Tizen's
120 tools repos, until the official released one being fixed.
122 Failed to create btrfs image in openSUSE
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124 When creating btrfs image in openSUSE, it would hang up with showing image kernel
125 panic. This issue impact all openSUSE distributions: 12.1, 11.4, 11.3, etc
129 The source code is tracked in github.com:
131 https://github.com/01org/mic
133 The bug is registered in tizen.org:
135 https://bugs.tizen.org/jira
137 Please report issues for bugs or feature requests.