Currently we have all our elements and library files in a top-level
directory and install them into
<root>/share/diskimage-builder/[elements|lib] (where root is either /
or the root of a virtualenv).
The problem with this is that editable/development installs (pip -e)
do *not* install data_files. Thus we have no canonical location to
look for elements -- leading to the various odd things we do such as a
whole bunch of guessing at the top of disk-image-create and having a
special test-loader in tests/test_elements.py so we can run python
unit tests on those elements that have it.
data_files is really the wrong thing to use for what are essentially
assets of the program. data_files install works well for things like
config-files, init.d files or dropping documentation files.
By moving the elements under the diskimage_builder package, we always
know where they are relative to where we import from. In fact,
pkg_resources has an api for this which we wrap in the new
diskimage_builder/paths.py helper [1].
We use this helper to find the correct path in the couple of places we
need to find the base-elements dir, and for the paths to import the
library shell functions.
Elements such as svc-map and pkg-map include python unit-tests, which
we do not need tests/test_elements.py to special-case load any more.
They just get found automatically by the normal subunit loader.
I have a follow-on change (I69ca3d26fede0506a6353c077c69f735c8d84d28)
to move disk-image-create to a regular python entry-point.
Unfortunately, this has to move to work with setuptools. You'd think
a symlink under diskimage_builder/[elements|lib] would work, but it
doesn't.
[1] this API handles stuff like getting files out of .zip archive
modules, which we don't do. Essentially for us it's returning
__file__.
Change-Id: I5e3e3c97f385b1a4ff2031a161a55b231895df5b
RHEL 7 does not ship tgtadm or tgtd so they cannot be used in the
deploy ramdisk. This change separates the tgt-specific parts of
the ramdisk into their own element, and adds a new one that supports
targetcli instead.
For now, the tgt implementation can only be used with traditional
busybox ramdisks and the targetcli one can only be used with dracut.
This is because dracut is primarily used for RHEL right now so it
makes sense to keep the dependencies simple. If there is a future
desire to mix and match the implementations that could be done, but
it would require users to explicitly select between tgt and
targetcli.
Change-Id: I4f99c91016287e08d836095c2f2261de8b45abdc
Co-Authored-By: James Slagle <jslagle@redhat.com>
The element builds dracut from source on Ubuntu because the
Ubuntu dracut package is broken and very old, so it can't be
installed properly and causes a number of other issues that
are fixed by using a newer version of Dracut.
This initial version should work in virtualized environments.
Further validation of its suitability for real baremetal
deployments will need to be done in the future, but this should
be sufficient to enable that work.
Regarding Dracut specifically, in order to limit the changes
needed in the existing scripts this element continues to use a
cut down version of the /init script that we were building for the
existing ramdisk. However, instead of running it as pid 0 it is
run as a Dracut pre-mount hook. This allows Dracut to set up all
of the hardware and system bits, while falling early enough in the
Dracut sequence to complete the deployment before Dracut would try
to boot off the hard disk.
bp tripleo-juno-dracut-ramdisks
Change-Id: I144c8993fe040169f440bd4f7a428fdbe3d745cf
