Get rid of debootstrap

build-tests/arm/ubuntu/test-image-rpi/appliance.kiwi

@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@
         <package name="rpi-eeprom"/>
         <package name="libraspberrypi-bin"/>
         <!-- system packages -->
+        <package name="gawk"/>
+        <package name="libpam-runtime"/>
         <package name="bash-completion"/>
         <package name="git"/>
         <package name="sudo"/>
@@ -79,5 +81,9 @@
         <package name="fdisk"/>
         <package name="language-pack-en"/>
     </packages>
-    <packages type="bootstrap"/>
+    <packages type="bootstrap">
+        <package name="apt-utils"/>
+        <package name="debconf"/>
+        <package name="mawk"/>
+    </packages>
 </image>

build-tests/x86/debian/test-image-live-disk/appliance.kiwi

@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
         <source path="obs://Debian:12/standard"/>
     </repository>
     <packages type="image">
+        <package name="libpam-runtime"/>
         <package name="grub-theme-starfield"/>
         <package name="plymouth-themes"/>
         <package name="vim"/>

build-tests/x86/debian/test-image-live-disk/config.sh

@@ -1,25 +1,10 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-#================
-# FILE          : config.sh
-#----------------
-# PROJECT       : OpenSuSE KIWI Image System
-# COPYRIGHT     : (c) 2006 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH. All rights reserved
-#               :
-# AUTHOR        : Marcus Schaefer <[email protected]>
-#               :
-# BELONGS TO    : Operating System images
-#               :
-# DESCRIPTION   : configuration script for Debian based
-#               : operating systems
-#               :
-#               :
-# STATUS        : BETA
-#----------------
+set -ex
+
 #======================================
 # Functions...
 #--------------------------------------
 test -f /.kconfig && . /.kconfig
-test -f /.profile && . /.profile
 
 #======================================
 # Greeting...

build-tests/x86/ubuntu/test-image-docker/appliance.kiwi

@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@
         <source path="obs://Ubuntu:23.04/standard"/>
     </repository>
     <packages type="image">
+        <package name="libpam-runtime"/>
+        <package name="gawk"/>
+        <package name="util-linux"/>
+        <package name="systemd"/>
+        <package name="init"/>
         <package name="gnupg"/>
         <package name="iproute2"/>
         <package name="iptables"/>
@@ -43,11 +48,11 @@
         <package name="dbus"/>
         <package name="xz-utils"/>
         <package name="usrmerge"/>
-        <!--
-            mawk is included so OBS adds it as a build dependency,
-            however this is installed by debootstrap
-        -->
+        <package name="language-pack-en"/>
+    </packages>
+    <packages type="bootstrap">
+        <package name="apt-utils"/>
+        <package name="debconf"/>
         <package name="mawk"/>
     </packages>
-    <packages type="bootstrap"/>
 </image>

build-tests/x86/ubuntu/test-image-live-disk/appliance.kiwi

@@ -61,13 +61,21 @@
         <source path="obs://Ubuntu:23.04/standard"/>
     </repository>
     <packages type="image">
+        <package name="libpam-runtime"/>
+        <package name="gawk"/>
+        <package name="apt-utils"/>
+        <package name="debconf"/>
+        <package name="mawk"/>
+        <package name="dialog"/>
         <package name="util-linux"/>
         <package name="grub2-themes-ubuntu-mate"/>
         <package name="plymouth-theme-sabily"/>
         <package name="plymouth"/>
-        <package name="grub-pc-bin"/>
+        <package name="grub-efi-amd64" arch="x86_64"/>
+        <package name="grub-efi-arm64" arch="aarch64"/>
+        <package name="grub-common"/>
         <package name="grub2-common"/>
-        <package name="grub-efi-amd64-bin"/>
+        <package name="grub-pc-bin" arch="x86_64"/>
         <package name="linux-generic"/>
         <package name="systemd"/>
         <package name="dracut"/>
@@ -84,11 +92,6 @@
         <package name="xz-utils"/>
         <package name="usrmerge"/>
         <package name="language-pack-en"/>
-        <!--
-            mawk is included so OBS adds it as a build dependency,
-            however this is installed by debootstrap
-        -->
-        <package name="mawk"/>
     </packages>
     <packages type="image" profiles="Virtual">
         <package name="shim"/>

build-tests/x86/ubuntu/test-image-live-disk/config.sh

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
+set -ex
+
 #======================================
 # Functions...
 #--------------------------------------
@@ -9,56 +11,7 @@ test -f /.kconfig && . /.kconfig
 #--------------------------------------
 echo "Configure image: [${kiwi_iname}]..."
 
-# On Debian based distributions the kiwi built in way
-# to setup locale, keyboard and timezone via systemd tools
-# does not work because not(yet) provided by the distribution.
-# Thus the following manual steps to make the values provided
-# in the image description effective needs to be done.
-#
-#=======================================
-# Setup system locale
-#---------------------------------------
-echo "LANG=${kiwi_language}" > /etc/locale.conf
-
-#=======================================
-# Setup system keymap
-#---------------------------------------
-echo "KEYMAP=${kiwi_keytable}" > /etc/vconsole.conf
-echo "FONT=eurlatgr.psfu" >> /etc/vconsole.conf
-echo "FONT_MAP=" >> /etc/vconsole.conf
-echo "FONT_UNIMAP=" >> /etc/vconsole.conf
-
-#=======================================
-# Setup system timezone
-#---------------------------------------
-[ -f /etc/localtime ] && rm /etc/localtime
-ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/${kiwi_timezone} /etc/localtime
-
-#=======================================
-# Setup HW clock to UTC
-#---------------------------------------
-echo "0.0 0 0.0" > /etc/adjtime
-echo "0" >> /etc/adjtime
-echo "UTC" >> /etc/adjtime
-
-#======================================
-# Disable systemd NTP timesync
-#--------------------------------------
-baseRemoveService systemd-timesyncd
-
-#======================================
-# Enable firstboot resolv.conf setting
-#--------------------------------------
-baseInsertService symlink-resolvconf
-
 #======================================
 # Setup default target, multi-user
 #--------------------------------------
 baseSetRunlevel 3
-
-#======================================
-# Clear apt-get data
-#--------------------------------------
-apt-get clean
-rm -r /var/lib/apt/*
-rm -r /var/cache/apt/*

doc/source/image_description/elements.rst

@@ -467,8 +467,7 @@ bootstrap_package="package_name":
   in :file:`/var/lib/bootstrap/PACKAGE_NAME.ARCH.tar.xz`.
   The tarball will be unpacked and used as the bootstrap
   rootfs to begin with. This allows for an alternative bootstrap
-  method preventing the use of `debootstrap`. For further details
-  see :ref:`debootstrap_alternative`.
+  method. For further details see :ref:`debianbootstrap_alternative`.
 
 compressed="true|false":
   Specifies whether the image output file should be
@@ -1259,7 +1258,7 @@ components="name"
 
 distribution="name"
   Used for Debian (apt) based repositories only. Specifies the
-  distribution name to be used on call of `debootstrap`
+  distribution name used in the repository data structure.
 
 imageonly="true|false"
   Specifies whether or not this repository should be configured in

doc/source/working_with_images.rst

@@ -35,4 +35,4 @@ Working with Images
    working_with_images/build_with_profiles
    working_with_images/build_in_buildservice
    working_with_images/use_suse_media
-   working_with_images/build_without_debootstrap
+   working_with_images/build_without_debianbootstrap

doc/source/working_with_images/build_without_debootstrap.rst → doc/source/working_with_images/build_without_debianbootstrap.rst

@@ -1,32 +1,28 @@
-.. _debootstrap_alternative:
+.. _debianbootstrap_alternative:
 
-Circumvent debootstrap
-======================
+Circumvent Debian Bootstrap
+===========================
 
 .. sidebar:: Abstract
 
    This page provides information how to build Debian based
-   images with `apt` but without using `debootstrap` to bootstrap
-   the image root tree
-
-When building Debian based images {kiwi} uses two tools to
-create the image root tree. First it calls `debootstrap` to
-initialize a minimal root tree and next it chroot's into that
-tree to complete the installation via `apt`. The reason why it
-is done that way is because `apt` does not(yet) support to
-install packages into an empty root directory like it is done
-with all other packagemanager interfaces implemented in {kiwi}.
-
-The use of `debootstrap` comes along with some prerequisites
-and limitations:
-
-* It can only use one repository to bootstrap from
-* It can only use an official archive repo
-* It has its own dependency resolver different from apt
-
-If one ore more of this properties turns into an issue, {kiwi}
-allows for an alternative process which is based on a prebuilt
-bootstrap-root archive provided as a package.
+   images without an extra bootstrap process.
+
+When building Debian based images {kiwi} uses `apt` in the
+bootstrap and the system phase to create the image root tree.
+However, `apt` does not support a native way to bootstrap
+an empty root tree. Therefore the bootstrap phase uses
+apt only to resolve the given bootstrap packages and to
+download these packages from the given repositories.
+The list of packages is then manually extracted into the
+new root tree which is not exactly the same as if `apt`
+would have installed them natively. For the purpose of
+creating an initial tree to begin with, this procedure
+is acceptable though.
+
+If, for some reasons, this bootstrap procedure is not
+applicable, {kiwi} allows for an alternative process which is
+based on a prebuilt bootstrap-root archive provided as a package.
 
 To make use of a `bootstrap_package`, the name of that package
 needs to be referenced in the {kiwi} description as follows:
@@ -54,10 +50,10 @@ How to Create a bootstrap_package
 ---------------------------------
 
 Changing the setup in {kiwi} to use a `bootstrap_package` rather
-then letting `debootstrap` do the job comes with the task to create
-that package providing the bootstrap root tree. There are more than
-one way to do this. The following procedure is just one example and
-requires some background knowledge about the Open Build Service
+then using {kiwi}'s debian bootstrap method to do the job, comes with
+the task to create that package providing the bootstrap root tree. There
+are more than one way to do this. The following procedure is just one
+example and requires some background knowledge about the Open Build Service
 `OBS <https://build.opensuse.org>`__ and its {kiwi} integration.
 
 1. Create an OBS project and repository setup that matches your image target
@@ -89,13 +85,28 @@ requires some background knowledge about the Open Build Service
           </repository>
 
           <packages type="image">
-              <!-- packages included so OBS adds it as a build dependency, however this is installed by debootstrap -->
+              <package name="gawk"/>
+              <package name="apt-utils"/>
+              <package name="debconf"/>
               <package name="mawk"/>
+              <package name="libpam-runtime"/>
+              <package name="util-linux"/>
+              <package name="systemd"/>
+              <package name="init"/>
+              <package name="gnupg"/>
+              <package name="iproute2"/>
+              <package name="iptables"/>
+              <package name="iputils-ping"/>
+              <package name="ifupdown"/>
+              <package name="isc-dhcp-client"/>
+              <package name="netbase"/>
+              <package name="dbus"/>
+              <package name="xz-utils"/>
+              <package name="usrmerge"/>
+              <package name="language-pack-en"/>
           </packages>
 
-          <packages type="bootstrap">
-              <!-- bootstrap done via debootstrap -->
-          </packages>
+          <packages type="bootstrap"/>
       </image>
 
    .. code:: bash

kiwi/exceptions.py

@@ -208,10 +208,10 @@ class KiwiDataStructureError(KiwiError):
     """
 
 
-class KiwiDebootstrapError(KiwiError):
+class KiwiDebianBootstrapError(KiwiError):
     """
-    Exception raised if not enough user data to call debootstrap
-    were provided or the debootstrap has failed.
+    Exception raised if the bootstrap installation for Debian
+    based systems has failed
     """