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Managing Image Source Files
Before you can create images for Point of Service terminals, you must copy the image
source files from the SUSE® Linux Enterprise Point of Service CDs to a central distri-
bution directory and create the reference files that KIWI needs to locate the image
source files.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service provides two command line utilities to simplify
the process of managing the source files required to build system images:
poscdtool.pl
and
poscopytool.pl
. The
poscopytool.pl
script is a simple
tool optimized to copy source files from installation media. The
poscdtool.pl
script
is a more configurable tool, but lacks the straightforwardness and interactivity of
poscopytool.pl
. This chapter reviews the two commands and procedures required
to manage the image source files.
11.1 POSCDTool Command Line
Options
POSCDTool is a command line utility that performs the initial system preparation re-
quired to build system images with KIWI. The POSCDTool command syntax is as
follows:
poscdtool.pl [
options
]
The following subsections summarize the available options.
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