NAME

       kiwi::image::info - Provide detailed information about an image description

SYNOPSIS

          kiwi-ng [global options] service <command> [<args>]

          kiwi-ng image info -h | --help
          kiwi-ng image info --description=<directory>
              [--resolve-package-list]
              [--ignore-repos]
              [--add-repo=<source,type,alias,priority>...]
              [--print-xml|--print-yaml]
          kiwi-ng image info help

DESCRIPTION

       Provides  information  about the specified image description.  If no specific info option is provided the
       command just lists basic information about the image which could also be directly obtained by reading the
       image XML description file.  Specifying an  extension  option  like  resolve-package-list  will  cause  a
       dependency  resolver  to  run over the list of packages and thus provides more detailed information about
       the image description.

OPTIONS

       --add-repo=<source,type,alias,priority>
              Add repository with given source, type, alias and priority.

       --description=<directory>
              The description must be a directory containing a kiwi XML description and optional metadata files.

       --ignore-repos
              Ignore all repository configurations from the XML description.  Using that option is usually  done
              with  a  sequence  of  --add-repo  options  otherwise  there are no repositories available for the
              processing the requested image information which could lead to an error.

       --resolve-package-list
              Solve package dependencies and return a list of all packages including their attributes e.g  size,
              shasum, and more.

       --print-xml
              Print  image  description  in  XML  format.  The  given  image description is read in, transformed
              internally to XML and send to the XSLT stylesheet processor. From there the result gets  validated
              using  the  RelaxNG  schema and the schematron rules. This result data will then be displayed. The
              typical use case for this command is to turn an old image description to the latest schema.

       --print-yaml
              Behaves the same like --print-xml except that after validation the result data will be transformed
              into the YAML format and displayed. Due to this processing the command can be used  for  different
              operations:

              • Conversion of a given image description from or into different formats. It's required to install
                the anymarkup python module for this to work. The module is not a hard requirement and loaded on
                demand.  If  not  available and a request to convert into a format different from XML is made an
                exception will be thrown.

              • Update of an old image description to the latest schema

AUTHOR

       Marcus Schäfer

COPYRIGHT

       2024, Marcus Schäfer

9.25.22                                           Feb 02, 2024                              KIWI::IMAGE::INFO(8)