Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 11 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 17-03-2009 Deployment Manual page 195

Example 14.1 KIWI Configuration File
<image schemeversion="2.0" name="...">
<description type="system">
<author>...</author>
<contact>...</contact>
<specification>...</specification>
</description>
<preferences>
<type primary="true" boot="..." flags="...">iso</type>
<type boot="..." filesystem="ext3" format="vmdk">vmx</type>
<type boot="..." filesystem="ext3">xen</type>
<type boot="..." filesystem="squashfs" flags="unified">oem</type>
<version>2.7.0</version>
<size unit="M">780</size>
<packagemanager>zypper</packagemanager>
<rpm-check-signatures>False</rpm-check-signatures>
<rpm-force>False</rpm-force>
<locale>en_US.UTF-8</locale>
<oem-swap>no</oem-swap>
<oem-boot-title>USB</oem-boot-title>
</preferences>
<users group="users">
<user name="root" pwd="" home="/root"/>
</users>
<repository type="rpm-md">
<source path="/home/rpmdir"/>
</repository>
<packages type="image" patternPackageType="onlyRequired">
<package name="yast2-live-installer"/>
<package name="pam"/>
<!-- List of packages reduced -->
</packages>
The root element of every KIWI configuration file. Each file requires the version
number. An optional kiwirevision attribute can be used to specify an SVN
revision of KIWI.
Contains a mandatory descriptions with information about the creator of this image
descriptions, its contact address and some short explanation.
Contains a mandatory preferences with information about the version of this image,
the used package manager, the supported image types, and other settings.
The optional users element contains a list of all users which are added to the
image. The user element contains the name, the path to its home directory,
password, and the shell.
Contains a mandatory list of repositories used by the package manager.
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