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authorDaan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com>2023-05-08 16:06:41 +0200
committerDaan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com>2023-05-13 10:49:17 +0200
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mkosi: Package a erofs usr partition with signed verity
Let's start moving towards a more involved partitioning setup to test our stuff more when using mkosi. The root partition is generated on boot with systemd-repart. CentOS supports neither erofs nor btrfs so we use squashfs and xfs instead. We also enable SecureBoot= locally for additional coverage. This and the use of verity means users need to run `mkosi genkey` once to generate the keys necessary to do secure boot and verity.
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@@ -40,9 +40,11 @@ the [GitHub repository](https://github.com/systemd/mkosi). `mkosi` will build an
image for the host distro by default. Currently, the latest github commit is
required. `mkosi` also requires systemd v253 (unreleased) or newer. If systemd v253
is not available, `mkosi` will automatically use executables from the systemd build
-directory if it's executed from the systemd repository root directory. It is
-sufficient to type `mkosi` in the systemd project directory to generate a disk image
-you can boot either in `systemd-nspawn` or in a UEFI-capable VM:
+directory if it's executed from the systemd repository root directory. First, run
+`mkosi genkey` to generate a key and certificate to be used for secure boot and
+verity signing. After that is done, it is sufficient to type `mkosi` in the systemd
+project directory to generate a disk image you can boot either in `systemd-nspawn`
+or in a UEFI-capable VM:
```sh
$ sudo mkosi boot # nspawn still needs sudo for now