rBuilder Online:Images

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An image in rBuilder refers to the entity used to create releases of your software appliance. The image could be one of several image types, including an installable CD or DVD or a fully installed hard drive image. Depending on the image type, there are other configuration details that must be defined when generating the image.

An image is created from a cooked group which references all necessary troves for the software appliance. A single group could be used to create several different builds, and the images can be grouped together as needed to create releases.

Developers and product owners on an rBuilder product can generate images from groups in that product. Product owners can subsequently add images to new or existing releases.

Developers and product owners can also edit, recreate, and delete images as necessary from the product's Manage Image page. An image cannot be modified if it is included in a published release, but a product owner can unpublish a release if modifications are necessary.

Please note that unicode is disabled in all image types at this time. This is due to values that are passed to Conary. Unicode data passed into jobslaves (such as product description, etc) that has unicode data present will have the unicode data removed. The removal only affects the metadata (such as build name or description) associated with images produced from rBuilder.