8 | mic create SUBCOMMAND <ksfile> [OPTION]
9 | mic chroot [OPTION] <imgfile>
10 | mic convert [OPTION] <imgfile> <format>
15 The tools `mic` is used to create and manipulate images for Linux distributions.
16 It is composed of three subcommand: `create`, `convert`, `chroot`.
23 This command is used to create various images, including live CD, live USB,
28 | mic create(cr) SUBCOMMAND <ksfile> [OPTION]
32 | help(?) give detailed help on a specific sub-command
33 | fs create fs image, which is also chroot directory
34 | livecd create live CD image, used for CD booting
35 | liveusb create live USB image, used for USB booting
36 | loop create loop image, including multi-partitions
37 | raw create raw image, containing multi-partitions
41 -h, --help show the help message
42 --logfile=LOGFILE specify the path of logfile, save the output to logfile LOGFILE
43 -c CONFIG, --config=CONFIG specify configure file for mic, default is /etc/mic/mic.conf
44 -k CACHEDIR, --cachedir=CACHEDIR cache directory used to store the downloaded files and packages
45 -o OUTDIR, --outdir=OUTDIR directory used to locate the output image and files
46 -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
47 --local-pkgs-path=LOCAL_PKGS_PATH specify the path for local rpm packages, which would be stored your own rpm packages
48 --pkgmgr=PKGMGR specify backend package mananger, currently yum and zypp available
49 --record-pkgs=RECORD_PKGS record the info of installed packages, multiple values can be specified which joined by ",", valid values: "name", "content", "license"
50 --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
51 --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"
52 --copy-kernel copy kernel files from image /boot directory to the image output directory
53 --runtime=RUNTIME Specify runtime mode, avaiable: bootstrap
54 --install-pkgs=INSTALL_PKGS Specify what type of packages to be installed, valid: source, debuginfo, debugsource
55 --check-pkgs=CHECK_PKGS Check if given packages would be installed, packages should be separated by comma
56 --tmpfs Setup tmpdir as tmpfs to accelerate, experimental feature, use it if you have more than 4G memory
57 --strict-mode Abort creation of image, if there are some errors during rpm installation
60 --include-src generate a image with source rpms included; to enable it, user should specify the source repo in the ks file
62 Options for loop image:
63 --shrink whether to shrink loop images to minimal size
64 --compress-image=COMPRESS_IMAGE compress all loop images with 'gz' or 'bz2' or 'lzo'
65 --compress-disk-image=COMPRESS_DISK_IMAGE same with --compress-image
67 Options for raw image:
68 --compress-image=COMPRESS_IMAGE compress all raw images with 'gz' or 'bz2' or 'lzo'
69 --compress-disk-image=COMPRESS_DISK_IMAGE same with --compress-image
73 | mic create loop tizen.ks
74 | mic create livecd tizen.ks --release=latest
75 | mic cr fs tizen.ks --local-pkgs-path=localrpm
79 This command is used to chroot inside the image, it's a great enhancement of chroot command in linux system.
83 | mic chroot(ch) <imgfile>
87 -h, --help show the help message
88 -s SAVETO, --saveto=SAVETO save the unpacked image to specified directory SAVETO
93 | mic chroot tizen.iso
94 | mic ch -s tizenfs tizen.usbimg
98 This command is used for converting an image to another format.
102 | mic convert(cv) <imagefile> <destformat>
106 -h, --help show the help message
107 -S, --shell launch interactive shell before packing the new image in the converting
111 | mic convert tizen.iso liveusb
112 | mic convert tizen.usbimg livecd
113 | mic cv --shell tizen.iso liveusb
117 The advanced usage is just for bootstrap, please skip it if you don't care about it.
119 The major purpose to use bootstrap is that some important packages (like rpm) are customized
120 a lot in the repo which you want to create image, and mic must use the customized rpm to
121 create images, or the images can't be boot. So mic will create a bootstrap using the repo
122 in the ks file at first, then create the image via chrooting, which can make mic using the
123 chroot environment with the customized rpm.
125 Now mic will use bootstrap to create image by default, and to meet your requirement, you can
126 also change the setting for bootstrap (/etc/mic/bootstrap.conf):
129 | # which distro will be used for creating bootstrap
130 | distro_name = tizen
131 | # which dir will be located when creating bootstrap
132 | rootdir = /var/tmp/mic-bootstrap
133 | # whether to enable the bootstrap mode
136 | [tizen] # the supported distro for creating bootstrap
137 | # which packages will be optional when creating bootstrap for this distro
139 | # which packages will be required when creating bootstrap for this distro
144 Bug of latest syslinux package
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146 In some new Linux distributions, the "syslinux" package in their official
147 software repositories is the version 4.04. It will cause segment fault for
148 a fatal bug, and mic will failed with syslinux installation errors.
150 The solution is to install the patched "syslinux" package in MeeGo or Tizen's
151 tools repos, until the official released one being fixed.
153 Failed to create btrfs image in openSUSE
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155 When creating btrfs image in openSUSE, it would hang up with showing image kernel
156 panic. This issue impact all openSUSE distributions: 12.1, 11.4, 11.3, etc
160 The source code is tracked in github.com:
162 https://github.com/01org/mic
164 The bug is registered in tizen.org:
166 https://bugs.tizen.org/jira
168 Please report issues for bugs or feature requests.