Qemu-nbd does not perform well with older versions of qemu due to
the lack of writeback caching mode. It also only builds qcow2 images
and there is a desire for raw image support. Finally, qemu-nbd makes
it very difficult to build images concurrently due to the somewhat
opaque nature of how it selects a /dev/nbd# device. losetup, on
the other hand, makes this process very straight forward.
Change-Id: I309fad8af4fd1e8d1720c17b65e1897a76d5e897
Co-Author: Clint Byrum <clint@fewbar.com>
Post install scripts are useful because they can perform tasks you want
to handle after the OS/application install but before the first boot
of the image. e.g: Clean the cache left by the package manager reducing
the size of the image.
Change-Id: I03e77f602192bbdce29c02999d1b57fac8051ddc
Fixes: Bug #1145786
Document the use of DIB_ as a prefix on environmental variables that can
be overridden at build time.
Introduce the first such variable by migrating IMAGE_SIZE to
DIB_IMAGE_SIZE.
Change-Id: Ie36b734991b913a23f37f2add47d470d7c1576e4
ARM doesn't have a generic Linux image due to the soc-specific nature of Linux
kernels today, so we drop the manual installation of that package, replacing it
with a dist-upgrade instead. This involved tweaks to the dpkg and fedora
install-package scripts.
Change-Id: I97924b80ca87781307e1087b9fe4b18215770e84
Using ELEMENTS_DIR env variable, you can specify multiple dirs containint your elements.
It must be a ":" separated elements list.
When an element is seen in one of those lists, it will be chosen and will continue with the next element.
Change-Id: I18eca27d943139cd6ca1ebd232b419e502d7b048
This includes the install-packages implementation for dpkg, apt http proxy
config, daemon blocking and unblocking.
Change-Id: I8f159021d2b223d7003cec067de3aa605ad06974
This is a necessary but not complete step towards supporting Fedora and Suse
distributions. Further work is needed (e.g. to quiesce daemons on
installation).
Change-Id: If3ea6093d41a21de755db52328226b84b5a3ede6
This adds a new optional file to the root of elements. The
file lists dependencies which will be added to the list
requested by the user during disk image creation.
Change-Id: Id71c3b333563604bbbaf90f9cf40e24fa9738fc8
Fix a typo in the base element itself.
Refer to it early in the README since it is likely to be useful to
almost everyone.
Change-Id: I4a753b61542f8a354ade7fcc4436076aec61e6c0
Flavour is overloaded in openstack due to it being used by nova. Element
seems to have the same feeling of combinability without using a term already
in active use in the openstack community.
Change-Id: Ia4c028d4062a8f69c66665821c94dd4bcdf06031
