Create Tizen Images with MIC

This topic provides information on how to create a Tizen image.

Before creating an image, study the following instructions:

MIC image creator

MIC is an image creator that is used to create images for Tizen.

The tool offers three major functions as follows:

  • Create an image in a specific format.
  • Chroot into an image.
  • Convert an image to another format.

For more information on the tool and its functions, see MIC Image Creator.

Prepare the kickstart file

Image creation requires a kickstart file that describes how to create an image. To prepare the kickstart file, follow the steps below:

  1. Download the original kickstart file:

    $ wget <Snapshot_date_URL>/images/<Repository>/<Image_name>/<kickstart_file>

    • For example:

      • Tizen: latest: Unified / standard / mobile-wayland-armv7l-tm1.ks:

        $ wget http://download.tizen.org/releases/milestone/tizen/unified/tizen-unified_20211014.1/images/standard/mobile-wayland-armv7l-tm1/tizen-unified_20211014.1_mobile-wayland-armv7l-tm1.ks

  2. Modify the original kickstart file to update the baseurl properties and to include locally built RPMs into the Tizen image.

    Add a --priority option to increase a local repository’s priority for build. For example: Tizen: latest: Unified / standard / mobile-wayland-armv7l-tm1.ks.

    • The repo section of the original kickstart file:

      repo --name=unified-standard --baseurl=http://download.tizen.org/snapshots/tizen/unified/tizen-unified_20211014.1/repos/standard/packages/ --ssl_verify=no
repo --name=base_arm --baseurl=http://download.tizen.org/snapshots/tizen/base/latest/repos/standard/packages/ --ssl_verify=no

    • The repo section of the modified kickstart file (added a local repository and only added –priority option at the end of each line):

      repo --name=unified-standard --baseurl=http://download.tizen.org/releases/milestone/tizen/unified/tizen-unified_20211014.1/repos/standard/packages/ --ssl_verify=no --priority=99
repo --name=base_arm --baseurl=http://download.tizen.org/releases/milestone/tizen/base/latest/repos/standard/packages/ --ssl_verify=no --priority=99
repo --name=local --baseurl=file:///home/<User>/GBS-ROOT/local/repos/<gbs.conf_profile>/armv7l/ --priority=1
    Note

    • The baseurl property of the local repo specifies the file path where locally built RPMs are located.
    • Setting the priority of the local repository at 1 and the priorities of remote repositories at 99 guarantees that MIC uses the packages that exist in the local repository with a higher priority when packages are available in both remote and local repositories.
    • To add new packages to a Tizen image, add the new packages’ names into the %package section, and add them to the local repository. You can check package’s name in the Name section of the spec file.

Create a Tizen image

To create a Tizen image, follow the steps below:

$ gbs createimage --ks-file=mobile-wayland-armv7l-tm1.ks
Note

If you have more than 4 GB of RAM available, use the --tmpfs option to speed up the image creation:

$ gbs createimage --ks-file=mobile-wayland-armv7l-tm1.ks --tmpfs

The following example shows the gbs createimage command output:

...
Info: Running scripts ...
kickstart post script start
Info: Checking filesystem /var/tmp/mic/build/imgcreate-Rii2MC/tmp-pVQesQ/platform.img
Info: Checking filesystem /var/tmp/mic/build/imgcreate-Rii2MC/tmp-pVQesQ/data.img
Info: Checking filesystem /var/tmp/mic/build/imgcreate-Rii2MC/tmp-pVQesQ/ums.img
Info: Pack all loop images together to mobile-wayland-armv7l-tm1-202106161915.tar.gz
Info: The new image can be found here:
/home/<User>/tizen/mic-output/mobile-wayland-armv7l-tm1-202106161915.tar.gz
/home/<User>/tizen/mic-output/mobile-wayland-armv7l-tm1-202106161915.packages
/home/<User>/tizen/mic-output/mobile-wayland-armv7l-tm1-202106161915.xml
/home/<User>/tizen/mic-output/manifest.xml
Info: Finished.

mobile-wayland-armv7l-tm1-202106161915.tar.gz is the image file and mobile-wayland-armv7l-tm1-202106161915.packages contains package info integrated in the image, including package name, version, and VCS information.

Once the Tizen image is created, the final step is to flash the image to a target device for verification. For more information, see Flashing an Image to Device.

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