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
This will write two files in /etc/ that contain the environment and
command line arguments used in the creation of an image. This should
assist with later efforts to repeat the creation of an image.
Change-Id: Icdbe6693380bed6c406feee10d2cb1a88a992932
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
Move common openstack service installation operations
into a new script `os-svc-install`, which simplifies
the elements for openstack services.
Change-Id: Ied8ac3278e7fe8af76e24748ec4e598a84afa03c
This change includes the 'base' element by default and adds a
command line switch to prevent this behaviour. This should reduce
confusion since this element is almost always necessary.
Change-Id: Ib4a2ef53a76b119b764751fa21058f4e2cb37741
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 an option to disk-image-create that allows it to re-exec with
an empty environment if required.
Change-Id: I9e51aa07b903e18cdd0ed5f953800307f9899b5d
Remove the explicit installation of an English language pack and instead
just default LANG to C. This settls Perl's noisy warnings and also stops
any side effects of different language build hosts.
Note that this is set right at the start of the build process, so it
should be entirely possible to override if needs be.
Change-Id: Id3b31162d4198fa02dc5a4d11168e57dbcd14a5d
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
Rather than force creation of an element for a single package install,
allow people to do this from the command line.
Change-Id: I63e2e7e50c4a7dbb8a8e198581dfadce91773621
We originally checked the return code of getopt, but subsequently
a debugging echo has been inserted and now we are checking the
return code of "echo", which is very rarely going to be useful.
Change-Id: I054fecaf6576d5e9d42b07159bba7d50335bf6cc
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
