SUSE-RU-2025:20280-1: important: Recommended update for python-kiwi

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Wed Jun 4 07:28:19 UTC 2025



# Recommended update for python-kiwi

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2025:20280-1  
Release Date: 2025-04-22T14:42:49Z  
Rating: important  
References:

  * bsc#1228741
  * bsc#1235448
  * bsc#1237772

  
Affected Products:

  * SUSE Linux Micro 6.1
  * SUSE Linux Micro Extras 6.1

  
  
An update that has three fixes can now be installed.

## Description:

This update for python-kiwi fixes the following issues:

  * Bump version: 10.2.11 to 10.2.12
  * Fix profile env variable name regression In the effort of adapting to the
    latest snapper in Issue #2697 we overlooked the after effect of a different
    variable name in the profile environment with regards to
    $kiwi_btrfs_root_is_snapshot and $kiwi_btrfs_root_is_snapper_snapshot. Image
    builds that references the former variable name would be broken by the
    change. This commit makes sure no regression is introduced by providing both
    variants (bsc#1237772).
  * Fix grub mkimage call for the ppc platform The list of modules used to
    create a grub platform image for ppc was the same list as used for the x86
    bios platform. This commit fixes this and also cleans up the inconsistency
    and misleading names used for creating platform specific output.
  * Bump version: 10.2.10 to 10.2.11
  * Update box plugin documentation Add chapter about new container build
    feature. The box plugin can now also run the build in containers
  * The ubuntu 20.04 github runner is closing down Make sure to move to another
    runner for workloads which still uses ubuntu 20.04
  * Bump version: 10.2.9 to 10.2.10
  * Poetry build sdist timestamps set to epoch 0 Newer versions of poetry set
    the timestamp for all source files to epoch 0. Such sources are not accepted
    by e.g Debian FTP servers and in general I don't like when tools changes
    their behavior just like that. This commit forces an older version of poetry
    for the purpose of creating the sdist tarball which then gets published on
    pypi. The argumentation for reproducible builds by forcing source files to a
    certain timestamp doesn't fly for me. I'm open for any better solution
    though.
  * Bump version: 10.2.8 to 10.2.9
  * Classify missing chkstat as debug message chkstat is a distribution specific
    tool. If it is present we use it, if not we don't but it's not worth a
    warning.
  * Allow to run setfiles multi threaded Use option -T0 for newer setfiles
    version.
  * Add rd.kiwi.dialog.timeout option Allow to configure the timeout value for
    dialogs displayed by the kiwi dracut code. By default the timeout is set to
    60 seconds. With the special value "off" the dialog will never timeout.
  * Make sure copy actions does not drop context Use shutil.copy2 to copy files
    preserving their attributes in the grub BootLoader space.
  * Improve unit test for archive target_dir Add a test case with absolute path
    in the target_dir to make sure we never unpack the archive to the host
    system.
  * Fixed profiled overlay imports When building an image for profile: SOME and
    providing an overlay directory named SOME/... kiwi will sync the contents of
    this overlay directory to the root tree. However it took the toplevel name
    SOME/ into account which is unwanted because only the sub data structure
    should be synced into the new root tree.
  * Bump version: 10.2.7 to 10.2.8
  * Use multipath child instead of parent device On multipath systems we need to
    find underlying child device instead of using parent device. This prevents
    listing all parent devices for a multipath device
  * Increase size for agama integration test build Agama needs more space to
    build now
  * Fixed agama integration test rubygem-byebug and rubygem-agama-yast seems to
    no longer exist
  * Update TW integration tests Package nscd was dropped from TW
  * Fix documentation regarding URI styles In reference to commit
    760a65558f9e2e91d3eaa3a2f9503ff596984b48 the support for iso:// URI types
    was dropped some time ago. However, the documentation was not properly
    updated. This commit fixes it
  * Fix return value of grub helper methods The grub helper methods to find grub
    tools returns a None value if the tool cannot be found. This None value
    could be used later in a Command call where it will be used in a join()
    command to log the resulting commandline. This join() call then fails and
    raises an unhandled error causing a stack trace in the application. This
    commit fixes it
  * Added disk validation for duplicate installs Installing the same image to
    different storage disks on the same machine creates device conflicts with
    unexpected side effects. This commit adds a validation based on the PTUUID
    of the disk image to check if another device on the system has the same ID
    and if yes, does not allow to install the image again including a message
    which device takes the same identifier (bsc#1228741).
  * Fixed documentation for signing key attribute The source locator name for
    local files was incorrect
  * Bump version: 10.2.6 to 10.2.7
  * Update documentation Added a new troubleshooting chapter as subsection to
    the Build Host Constraints named Package Manager Behavior. It serves the
    purpose to describe options for the customer to change the default package
    manager behavior which we from the kiwi side do not influence intentionally.
    This is a followup change to (bsc#1235448).
  * Drop still present tox artifacts There were still some left over tox files
    and the documentation contribution chapter was also wrong at several places
  * Add support for reading optional pkgmgr env file If there is a file
    .kiwi.package_manager.env in the root of the image tree it will be read and
    put into the caller environment for the selected package and repository
    manager. There are features in e.g zypper which can only be used via env
    variables (bsc#1235448).
  * Auto convert unit test XML data to schema v8.3
  * Rename btrfs_root_is_snapshot Rename btrfs_root_is_snapshot to
    btrfs_root_is_snapper_snapshot. This happens in preparation for the changes
    suggested where we want to get rid of snapper specific btrfs code which will
    be available in snapper natively soon. To make sure a btrfs layout specific
    to snapper(and SUSE), the implicitly used attribute named
    btrfs_root_is_snapshot now becomes explicit and its new name will indicate
    that snapper sits behind it. Along with the rename a XSLT stylesheet to
    automatically convert the old name into the new name for schema v8.3 will be
    performed.
  * Bump version: 10.2.5 to 10.2.6
  * Fixed donate button target
  * Added LUKS reencryption support Added rd.kiwi.oem.luks.reencrypt boot option
    consumed by the kiwi-repart dracut module. For OEM LUKS2 encrypted disk
    images. If set, reencrypts the disk prior an eventual resize and therefore
    creates a new key pool and master key. The reencryption is advisable if the
    image binary is not protected. With access to the image binary it's possible
    to extract the luks header which then allows to decrypt the data unless it
    was reencrypted. The reencryption process only runs if the checksum of the
    luks header still matches the one from the original disk image. Be aware
    that the reencryption will ask for the passphrase if the image has been
    built with an initial luks passphrase.
  * Fixed arm/tumbleweed/test-image-rpi No ruby required for this integration
    test build
  * Plain zipl loader needs boot partition If the rootfs is something zipl
    cannot read, we need an extra boot partition using a supported filesystem
  * Fixed IBM-Cloud-Standard profile The test-image-MicroOS integration test
    builds an IBM-Cloud-Standard profile as encrypted variant with a random key
    that is not protected by an encrypted boot image. This doesn't make sense.
    Thus the encryption setup for the IBM cloud standard build got removed. Use
    the IBM-Cloud-Secure-Execution profile to test encrypted secure linux builds
  * Fixed test-image-qcow-openstack rsh package was dropped from TW
  * Fix genprotimg for s390 builds A recent change on genprotimg now forbids to
    use --cert in combination with --no-verify, even though this was allowed
    before.
  * Fix documentation for repo, package gpg settings In contrast to the
    documentation, kiwi sets default values for any gpg setting if not
    explicitly specified differently. We want to avoid to inherit a behavior
    from how the distribution packages the package manager. This commit fixes
    the documentation to be in line with the implementation
  * Drop insecure and unsupported md5 digest Decommission the Checksum.md5()
    method and move all places in code to sha256(). The md5 digest is considered
    insecure and has also been removed from hashlib as a supported digest.
  * Fix config functions action The action failed on the setup of the runtime
    because the upgrade of pip failed.
  * Bump version: 10.2.4 to 10.2.5
  * Changed systemfiles provider Instead of providing a static list of
    filenames, provide a list of package names. It is expected that the pilot of
    flake-pilot resolves this list against the local package database to build
    up the filelist for provisioning
  * Bump version: 10.2.3 to 10.2.4
  * Update system files setup for containers The attribute provide_system_files
    creates a meta file in the root tree named 'systemfiles'. The contents of
    this file were produced by just a dump of the package database so far. For a
    more generic use of this data some adaptions were needed. First we allow to
    skip packages matching a pattern from being part of the system files. Next
    we do not put ghost and doc files into account. And last we handle library
    files in a different file named 'systemfiles.libs' where we do not add
    symlink targets if the target path is also part of the package. The consumer
    of this information is flake-pilot which syncs that library system files
    from the host via --copy-links. This allows a more generic use with regards
    to versioned libraries e.g. libc
  * Drop /dev/pts from bind mount locations This has created havoc in the Fedora
    build environments by fully unmounting /dev/pts and breaking the builders
    for subsquent tasks. This is a partial revert of commit
    daf1323c5ded7e4e7783205f5e30457b40eb322f.
  * Don't take ghost files into account When creating the system files
    information do not take ghost files and artifact files into account
  * Bump version: 10.2.2 to 10.2.3
  * Update STYLEROOT to SUSE 2022
  * Fix broken links in the documentation
  * Fix legacy_bios_mode detection The code in this method does not work
    correctly if the firmware is set to 'bios'. In bios only mode the method
    returned a false value which is incorrect as it should return a true value
    in this case. Without this patch ISO images will fail to boot because no
    loader gets configured.
  * Added /dev/pts to bind mount locations During runtime several kernel
    filesystems are bind mounted into the image root system such that programs
    expecting it can work. /dev/pts was not needed so far but seems to be a good
    addition to the list to make tools like sudo to work properly when called
    e.g. from a config.sh script.
  * xorriso: respect efiparttable and gpt_hybrid_mbr This should make the
    xorriso-based ISO build path respect the 'efiparttable' and 'gpt_hybrid_mbr'
    settings when building a UEFI-compatible image, making it write a GPT disk
    label by default instead of an MBR (msdos) one. If it's building an image
    that is not UEFI-compatible it will always write an MBR label, regardless of
    this setting. If 'gpt_hybrid_mbr' is set, xorriso will write an Ubuntu-style
    MBR/GPT hybrid partition table, where the MBR partition table includes a
    partition with type 00 and the bootable flag, as well as the partition with
    type ee required by the UEFI spec. This mildly violates the UEFI spec but
    may make the image bootable on native BIOS or CSM firmwares which refuse to
    boot from a disk with no partition marked 'bootable' in the MBR. If
    'gpt_hybrid_mbr' is not set, xorriso will write a strictly UEFI-spec
    compliant label, with just the 'protective MBR' required by the UEFI spec
    (no bootable partition) and the correct GPT partition table. Note this is
    somewhat different from what gpt_hybrid_mbr does for disk images. Also, we
    now pass -compliance no_emul_toc when building ISOs, as recommended by
    upstream in https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-
    xorriso/2024-11/msg00012.html This tool is generally always going to be
    building ISOs intended for write-once use, not multi-session use (and which
    are rarely, these days, written to physical discs at all anyway).
  * Added provide/require system files for containers Added the attributes
    provide_system_files and require_system_files to control the provider and
    requester of system files in container image builds. systemfiles is a
    metadata file which contains all files from the package database at call
    time. It is used in flake-pilot to provision the systemfiles data from the
    host into the container instance. One possible use case for this data is a
    flake registration which uses a base container that is derived from a
    runtime container but all data from the runtime should be provisioned from
    the host. Using this feature tightly couples the flake to the host OS
    distribution and version.
  * Bump version: 10.2.1 to 10.2.2
  * Fix scope issue Increase livetime of the the compressor instances to the
    livetime of RootImportOCI. They create temporary files which are referenced
    later and need to live longer than the block they got created in
  * Bump version: 10.2.0 to 10.2.1
  * Fixed use of fscreateoptions for iso type The information for
    fscreateoptions was not passed along to the tooling if a custom filesystem
    attribute was specified.
  * Allow to derive from multiple containers Add support for multi inheritance
    to the derived_from attribute In the order of a comma seperated list of
    docker source URI's a base tree is created. This was possible only with one
    container so far and Fixes #2680 as well as jira#OBS-354
  * Bump version: 10.1.18 to 10.2.0
  * Add selinux test build to TW Also update derived docker integration test to
    latest Leap
  * kiwi/schema: Fix allowed value type for ISO publisher and application ID
    According to the spec, this should be constrained to 128 characters but also
    allow quite a few other special characters (as well as spaces). We didn't
    allow spaces in application ID, but allowed too much for Publisher. Now we
    set up both correctly.
  * Fix setup of kiwi environment variables Some kiwi env vars are initialized
    with an empty value and not overwritten if another value is provided. For
    the selected variables an empty value setting is not allowed because the
    schema also enforces the value to be set at least once. In addition a
    helpful option named --print-kiwi-env was added to the 'image info' command
    which allows to print the environment variables and their values.
  * Add random key support for LUKS encryption Allow to pass luks="random". In
    random mode use the generated keyfile as the only key to decrypt. This is
    only secure if the generated initrd also gets protected e.g. through
    encryption like it is done with the secure linux execution on zSystems
  * Added development group in pyproject setup generateDS and other tools are
    needed and were forgotten to be added when we deleted the tox dependency
  * Added containers integration with OBS When building in the Open Build
    Service (OBS) there is no way to create outgoing connections from the build
    workers. To allow the containers section to fetch containers from the SUSE
    registry we need to apply an OCI URI translation into a local path. The
    actual OCI container image is expected to be provided by the obs backend on
    the worker. Along with this commit also an integration test named test-
    image-disk-containers is provided (jira#OBS-351).
  * Fix rendering of SUSE docs The SUSE documentation is produced through a
    conversion of the ReST source into docbook. The name kiwi is reserved in the
    index and needs to be referenced as kiwi-ng when used as command.
  * Remove tox dependency tox was used as sort of a make target to run unit
    tests and more in a python virtualenv. However, since we switched everything
    to poetry it's no longer needed to let tox create the python virtual
    environments. This commit moves the tox targets into the Makefile and adapts
    the github workflow files accordingly. In addition the scripts container
    based tests were re-activated and fixed such that they succeed again.
  * Fix make build target Move the actions done by the tox target into the build
    target and call them there in a clean and easy to spot sequence. There is no
    need to call tox to prepare for the package submission, instead the checks
    and poetry runs to prepare for the package target should be called directly
    as part of the build target. In the future we might get rid of tox
    completely.
  * Bump version: 10.1.17 to 10.1.18
  * Fixed zipl caller environment zipl gets confused with an active sysfs mount
    inside the root tree at call time of zipl. This commit umounts the /sys bind
    mount in the image tree prior calling zipl
  * Fix s390 test-image-disk build Add missing kernel links used by suse tools
  * Bump version: 10.1.16 to 10.1.17
  * Fix coloring of build_status.sh flags Depending on the place of the status
    flag the color setup might fail. This commit fixes it
  * Add pytest-container as optional dependency The pyproject.toml listed
    pytest-container as dependency but it is used only to run the container
    based integration tests for the shell helper methods. For building the
    package this dependency should not be pulled in
  * Fix networking in erofs integration test The network setup was systemd-
    networkd based but the provided network config was not for systemd
  * Bump version: 10.1.15 to 10.1.16
  * Fix erofs requires in spec erofs-utils for SUSE only exists in Tumbleweed.
    The former conditon would also add the requirement for ALP and SLFO which is
    wrong. This commit fixes it
  * Add vagrantconfig rule for vagrant format If the format="vagrant" attribute
    is set, a vagrantconfig section becomes mandatory. This commit enforces this
    rule on the schema.
  * Bump version: 10.1.14 to 10.1.15
  * Fixed sphinx_rtd_theme setup Delete obsolete display_version attribute
  * Evaluate eficsm everywhere Fixed _supports_bios_modules() to take an
    eventually provided eficsm setup into account. The grub config still
    searches for i386 grub modules even if eficsm="false" is set.
  * Fixed debian bootstrap script calls Run scripts as commands with their
    native shebang and not through bash. Not all debian package scripts uses
    bash, some of them uses sh which can be a link to dash or other
    interpreters.
  * Update TW integration tests The package x86info was dropped from TW
  * Turn DiskFormat into an ordinary class
  * it does not need to be an abstract base class
  * use f-strings where applicable instead of format()
  * change return type of _custom_args_for_format from list to tuple
  * Add new containers section Allow to specify references to OCI containers in
    the image description During the kiwi process the containers are fetched
    into a temporary location and a systemd service is configured to one time
    load the containers into the local registry at first boot of the system.
  * Bump version: 10.1.13 to 10.1.14
  * Revert "Install usrmerge for Debian integration test" This reverts commit
    95ac861741f14c4f35611c16328384c18e53dcfb. Solution needs to be provided in
    code
  * Install usrmerge for Debian integration test
  * Support older apt versions for bootstrap
  * Run package scripts in apt bootstrap phase The bootstrap procedure based on
    apt only runs a manual collection of package scripts. This commit refactors
    the code that unpacks the bootstrap packages to a python implementation and
    adds a method to run the bootstrap scripts from all packages resolved by
    apt.
  * Bump version: 10.1.12 to 10.1.13
  * Fix bundle extension for vagrant type When bundling result files that uses a
    vagrant type, kiwi creates them with the extension .vagrant.virtualbox.box
    or .vagrant.libvirt.box. The bundler code renames them using only the .box
    suffix which is too short as it is missing the subformat information. This
    commit fixes it and keeps this information in the result bundle file name.
  * Use simple quotas (squota) for volumes
  * Add quota attribute to volume section Allow to set quota per volume for the
    btrfs filesystem
  * Fix globbing with exclude with regex This fixes a collection of bugs when
    producing erofs images. On one hand, this ensures that an exclude of `/sys`
    doesn't accidentally match `/lib/libsystemd.so`, only `/sys/whatever`. On
    the other hand, this ensures that `/dev/*` does match `/dev/vda` and not
    just `/dev///////////`. This fixes libsystemd.so getting dropped in Kiwi-
    built FEX images.
  * Honour custom exclude for filesystem builds All other call sites honour the
    custom exclude file, it's just this one that needs to be fixed. This
    unblocks use of Kiwi for generating FEX rootfs.
  * test: storage: update clone_device tests with new block size
  * storage: clone_device: increase dd block size Increasing the block size used
    for dd reduces the time needed to clone a device.
  * Bump version: 10.1.11 to 10.1.12
  * Add missing erofscompression validation In the filesystem builder I forgot
    to evaluate the erofscompression attribute.
  * Include PI and comments in XSL stylesheets So far comments and processing
    instructions (PI) were ignored when applying the XSL stylesheets. This
    commit updates all stylesheets to take them into account
  * Bump version: 10.1.10 to 10.1.11
  * doc: Add login information test build test images

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like
YaST online_update or "zypper patch".  
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  * SUSE Linux Micro 6.1  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.1-80=1

  * SUSE Linux Micro Extras 6.1  
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.1-80=1

## Package List:

  * SUSE Linux Micro 6.1 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    * dracut-kiwi-oem-repart-10.1.10-slfo.1.1_2.1
    * dracut-kiwi-lib-10.1.10-slfo.1.1_2.1
    * dracut-kiwi-oem-dump-10.1.10-slfo.1.1_2.1
  * SUSE Linux Micro Extras 6.1 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    * python3-kiwi-10.1.10-slfo.1.1_2.1

## References:

  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228741
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1235448
  * https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1237772

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