SuseHandler refused anything but 15.x. What 16 needed beyond widening it:
- its repo urls are written in terms of ${releasever}, which zypper
resolves from the target root's os-release, a file that does not exist
yet when the first packages go in
- its repos name a zypper service backed by a package-provided directory
the target root does not have, so zypper discarded every one of them
as an orphan
- there is no mkinitrd to work out which kernel to build for, and bare
dracut would build for the build host's running kernel
- the efi payloads moved out of /usr/lib64/efi, arping out of /usr/sbin,
nsswitch.conf and protocols under /usr/etc, and the presets enable
sshd already
- the module list predated virtio, so an image built for a KVM guest had
no network at all, and dm-crypt could not allocate a transform for the
encrypted image without the aes-xts modules
- urlmount still links libpthread, an empty stub since glibc 2.34 that
nothing else in the initramfs pulls in
Markus Hilger
Jarrod Johnson