2025-12-12 Notes to Remember

openSUSE Kernel cmdline INSECURE=1 to boot test ISO’s without signed repositories on the image Build ProductBuilder images outside of openSUSE:Factory Grab the following packages 000product installation-images skelcd-control-* Example repository configuration for building: <project name="home:sfalken:kalpa:images"> <title>Kalpa Images Devel Project</title> <description/> <person userid="sfalken" role="bugowner"/> <person userid="sfalken" role="maintainer"/> <build> <disable arch="i586"/> <disable arch="i586" repository="openSUSE_Tumbleweed"/> </build> <publish> <disable/> <enable repository="product"/> <enable repository="images"/> <enable arch="x86_64" repository="openSUSE_Factory"/> <enable arch="x86_64"/> <disable arch="i586" repository="openSUSE_Tumbleweed"/> <disable arch="i586" repository="images"/> </publish> <useforbuild> <disable arch="i586"/> <disable arch="i586" repository="openSUSE_Tumbleweed"/> </useforbuild> <repository name="openSUSE_Tumbleweed"> <path project="openSUSE:Factory" repository="snapshot"/> <arch>i586</arch> <arch>x86_64</arch> </repository> <repository name="images"> <path project="home:sfalken:kalpa:images" repository="openSUSE_Tumbleweed"/> <path project="openSUSE:Factory" repository="standard"/> <path project="openSUSE:Factory" repository="snapshot"/> <arch>x86_64</arch> </repository> </project> Grab prjconf from openSUSE:Factory ...

2025 December 12 · 3 min · Shawn W. Dunn

2025-06-10 Fedora Packaging Container

So you want to do fedora packaging in a Distrobox? It takes a couple of extra steps, particularly if you want to be able to do mockbuilds: $ distrobox create -i quay.io/fedora/fedora:latest -n fpkg --root --init --additional-packages 'systemd vim zsh fedora-packager copr-cli' If you happen to be on an openSUSE based system, such as MicroOS, Aeon, or Kalpa (and probably Leap, Tumbleweed, or anything else), you’ll need to do the following: ...

2025 June 10 · 2 min · Shawn W. Dunn