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

       2023, Marcus Schäfer