How to build the official style iso image?

btwarden · January 31, 2023, 1:06am

/usr/share/clr-installer is created and populated by the build process for clr-installer itself. For the ISO templates, for example, see:

github.com

clearlinux/clr-installer/blob/ac2cbde712a0c77d65a8e902503290afb24f431f/Makefile#L96


      
          endif
          
          
# Install
          install: install-tui install-gui
          
          
install-common:
          	@install -D -m 644 $(top_srcdir)/themes/clr-installer.theme $(THEME_DIR)/clr-installer.theme
          	@install -D -m 644 $(top_srcdir)/themes/high-contrast.theme $(THEME_DIR)/high-contrast.theme
          	@mkdir -p -m 755 $(LOCALE_DIR)/
          	@cp -rp --no-preserve=ownership $(top_srcdir)/locale/* $(LOCALE_DIR)/
          	@install -D -m 644 $(top_srcdir)/iso_templates/initrd_init_template $(ISO_TEMPLATE_DIR)/initrd_init_template
          	@install -D -m 644 $(top_srcdir)/iso_templates/isolinux.cfg.template $(ISO_TEMPLATE_DIR)/isolinux.cfg.template
          	@install -D -m 644 $(top_srcdir)/etc/clr-installer.yaml $(CONFIG_DIR)/clr-installer.yaml
          	@install -D -m 644 $(top_srcdir)/etc/bundles.json $(CONFIG_DIR)/bundles.json
          	@install -D -m 644 $(top_srcdir)/etc/kernels.json $(CONFIG_DIR)/kernels.json
          	@install -D -m 644 $(top_srcdir)/etc/chpasswd $(CONFIG_DIR)/chpasswd
          	@install -D -m 644 $(top_srcdir)/etc/systemd/clr-installer-provision.service $(SYSTEMD_DIR)/clr-installer-provision.service
          	@install -D -m 644 $(top_srcdir)/completions/bash/clr-installer $(BASH_COMP_DIR)/clr-installer
          	@install -D -m 644 $(top_srcdir)/completions/zsh/_clr-installer $(ZSH_COMP_DIR)/_clr-installer
          
          
install-tui: build-tui install-common

You can see the files populated during packaging here:

github.com

clearlinux-pkgs/clr-installer/blob/c8671d8c29b72cc62b0dd2acfb84d6115da14160/clr-installer.spec#L127


      
          cp %{_builddir}/clr-installer-%{version}/vendor/gopkg.in/yaml.v2/NOTICE %{buildroot}/usr/share/package-licenses/clr-installer/9522d95b2b9b284285cc3fb6ecc445aa3ee5e785
          %make_install
          
          
%files
          %defattr(-,root,root,-)
          
          
%files bin
          %defattr(-,root,root,-)
          /usr/bin/clr-installer
          
          
%files data
          %defattr(-,root,root,-)
          /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/clr-installer
          /usr/share/clr-installer/iso_templates/initrd_init_template
          /usr/share/clr-installer/iso_templates/isolinux.cfg.template
          /usr/share/clr-installer/themes/clr-installer.theme
          /usr/share/clr-installer/themes/high-contrast.theme
          /usr/share/clr-installer/themes/style.css
          /usr/share/defaults/clr-installer/bundles.json
          /usr/share/defaults/clr-installer/chpasswd
          /usr/share/defaults/clr-installer/clr-installer.yaml

The installer configs and scripts for the current release are always published here:
https://download.clearlinux.org/current/config/image/

So, in summary:

Download and build clr-installer from source (or add the clr-installer bundle if you’re already running Clear Linux).
Download the contents of /current/config/image.
Run clr-installer -c live-server.yaml

That’s all you need to replicate our official builds.

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