This directory contains scripts to build an OpenSUSE distribution for Rancher Desktop.

Usage

The distribution is built using docker:

make TYPE=raw.xz   # For macOS/VZ hosts (default)
make TYPE=qcow2.xz # For Linux/qemu hosts
make TYPE=tar.xz   # For WSL hosts

To cross-compile for a non-native architecture, set GOARCH to the target architecture as used by the go toolchain. This requires your docker daemon to be able to emulate that architecture.

Distro Overlay

Rancher Desktop adds nerdctl, buildkit and mkcert with the distro-overlay tool from the rancher-desktop-2 repository, so this image ships without them. The tool appends them to the WSL tarball, or writes them into the free space config.kiwi reserves in the raw image.

Release Process

Push a tag of the form v* (or test-v* for testing if testing in a fork is not possible), and the release workflow will create a draft release with the artifacts.