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Ian Wienand 1f2a874e8e Create /etc/machine-id for RHEL images 
Per the inline comment, a machine-id is required for kernels to
install correctly (this may well be a bug, but the linked issue
remained inconclusive).

Add a call to make the machine-id before install packages.

Change-Id: If75d04376e62bfdfe14ee3ca4d0bd5c8b383c1b0
Redhat-Bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1737355
 		2019-08-07 18:18:34 +10:00
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environment.d Remove the rhel 8 check for xfs 2019-06-12 07:01:36 -07:00
pre-install.d Create /etc/machine-id for RHEL images 2019-08-07 18:18:34 +10:00
root.d Add version-less RHEL element for RHEL7 and RHEL8 2019-05-29 11:28:53 +03:00
README.rst Add version-less RHEL element for RHEL7 and RHEL8 2019-05-29 11:28:53 +03:00
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README.rst

rhel

Use RHEL cloud images as the baseline for built disk images.

Because RHEL base images are not publicly available, it is necessary to first download the RHEL cloud image from the Red Hat Customer Portal and pass the path to the resulting file to disk-image-create as the DIB_LOCAL_IMAGE environment variable.

The cloud image can be found at (login required): RHEL8: https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/479/ver=/rhel---8/8.0/x86_64/product-software RHEL7: https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/69/ver=/rhel---7/7.1/x86_64/product-downloads

Then before running the image build, define DIB_LOCAL_IMAGE (replace the file name with the one downloaded, if it differs from the example):

export DIB_LOCAL_IMAGE=rhel-8.0-x86_64-kvm.qcow2

The downloaded file will then be used as the basis for any subsequent image builds.

For further details about building RHEL images, see the rhel-common and redhat-common element README files.

Environment Variables

DIB_LOCAL_IMAGE
Required

Yes

Default

None

Description

The RHEL 8 base image you have downloaded. See the element description above for more details.

Example

DIB_LOCAL_IMAGE=/tmp/rhel8-cloud.qcow2