Trouble creating an iso

[mister-drgn]

So I'm trying to create an iso for the Cinnamon image. I copied the boot_menu.yml file from the budgie repo and changed it to cinnamon, which seemed to be the right approach when I attempted this in my fork. I then started the merge from the automatically generated "release please."

But it doesn't seem to be working. First, when I look at the pull request from "release please," it's been stuck on "Build and push image Expected -- Waiting for status to be reported" for a very long time, much longer than it generally takes to build the main/nvidia images. Second, when I click on "Actions" and then "Release Please," it indicates a failure because the "Generate and Release ISOs" stage was skipped. There's no explanation provided for why it was skipped. Maybe this repo doesn't have permission to do that stage?

Any help would be appreciated @castrojo . Thanks.

[castrojo]

I haven't been able to figure out a single image ISO yet, by the time I got around to it the isogenerator had changed so much that I never got around to figuring this out either.

But in the meantime maybe PR it into the main repo so it's on the iso with everything else?

[mister-drgn]

Is that just a matter of adding it to boot_menu.yml in ublue/main?

[castrojo]

yep!

[castrojo]

Ok I've merged your change! I'm landing the xbox/akmods stuff benjamin has in the queue and then I'll spin new isos!

[castrojo]

We appear to have not documented how to add an image to the ISO so I don't think this will work, we might need to add something to: https://github.com/ublue-os/isogenerator

Will investigate this morning.

[castrojo]

Oh nevermind, that totally worked the first time. 😄

-main is installing in a virtual machine now, I've tagged it here as a prerelease: https://github.com/ublue-os/main/releases/tag/v1.5.0

I'll give it a day or so to shake out and then call that latest, in the meantime enjoy the ISO!

[mister-drgn]

Thanks!

[EyeCantCU]

Hi,

To get this working you need to go into your repository's settings and under Actions > General there is an option to "Allow GitHub Actions to create and approve pull requests" that needs to be ticked

After that, you can add the isogenerator action and your 'boot_menu.yml'. Next time you push to the branch you've chosen to have it monitor (in my case, that is live), a pull request with a version bump will be created. Merge that. A release with an ISO will then be generated.

My workflow (release-please.yml) for generating an ISO looks like this (keep in mind you're going to want to use Ublue's isogenerator, I was just doing some testing):

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EyeCantCU/BlueWhaleOS/main/.github/workflows/release-please.yml

All you really need to do here is change the image-name to match your project.

And my boot_menu.yml is pretty simple:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EyeCantCU/BlueWhaleOS/main/boot_menu.yml

Change the variant label to the repo's owner / project name. Change the flavor label to just the project name