Custom Vib Image

This template repository is a starting point for creating custom Vib images on top of the official Vanilla OS images like desktop image. It contains a basic recipe and an example module to get you started.

Tip

It is suggested to check the Vib documentation to know more about the recipe format, structure of modules and the supported fields.

Getting Started

• First, click on the Use this template button in the top right corner, then from the drop-down menu select Create a new repository. This would create a new repository with the same files and directories as this repository.
• Go to Settings → Actions → General and ensure "Allow all actions and reusable workflows" are enabled.
• Now, clone the repository to your local machine and let's start customizing your image. You can also use the GitHub online editor if you prefer.
• Open the vib-build.yml workflow file and replace the custom image name with an image name of your choosing in line 14.
• Open the recipe.yml file and replace the image name and ID with your image name and ID in lines 1 and 2.
• Now, perform your additions and modifications to the recipe as per your requirements.
• If you just want to install .deb files, you can just put them in includes.container/deb-pkgs
• Optionally, add your modules to the modules directory and add them to the package-modules includes in recipe.yml.
• You can check the Actions tab in GitHub to see the build progress of your image.

Note

It is suggested to add vib-image and vib tags to your repository for your image to be easily discoverable to others.

Use your custom image

If your image is successfully built, you can then point ABRoot to your custom image to use it.

• Edit the /etc/abroot/abroot.json file with the command: host-shell pkexec nano /etc/abroot/abroot.json.
• Change the "name" entry from something like vanilla-os/desktop to your-github-name/your-image-name (for example taukakao/custom). [Note: All characters must be in lowercase.]
• Now, Run abroot upgrade to switch to your custom image.

Explore

Now, that you are aware of the basics, let's explore the files and directories present in this repository:

• .github/workflows/vib-build.yml: This file contains the GitHub Actions workflow to check for updates to the base image and build the Vib image on push and pull requests.
  • It uses the vib-gh-action to build the recipe and upload it as an artifact. The generated artifact is then built using Docker's actions and pushed to GHCR (Note: The image with the respective branch tags is published to GHCR only on push actions to the branches in your repository or on tags and not on pull requests).
  • The action runs automatically on a schedule checking updates to the base image using Differ.
• .github/dependabot.yml: This file contains the configuration for GitHub's Dependabot to check for updates to the GitHub actions used in the workflow files monthly and when it finds a new version it creates a PR in your repository.
• includes.container: The files included in this directory are added by default to your image to the specified location (Note: It also contains ABRoot's configuration file).
• modules: This directory contains the modules that are used to customize the image. You can add your modules to this directory.
• recipe.yml: This file contains the recipe for the image. It specifies the base image, modules and other fields to be present in the custom image.