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
When build ubuntu iso image, it will install grub-efi-amd64-signed
and grub-efi-amd64 packages. Both of the postinst script will try
to find root device and install grub which will definitely fail in
such a chroot environment.
So the workaround is to skip error and remove postinst script.
And confirm the package be installed successfully at last.
Change-Id: Ie0aecb212b22362046db55b5ad8c64c3211c28e5
Closes-Bug: #1491280
Co-Authored-By: Jane.zhang <jian.zhang8@hpe.com>
This patch is adds a new grub2 element that installs the
grub2 bootloader on the image so it can work with Ironic's
local boot support.
This patch also modifies the iso element which was installing
same grub2. It removes the grub2 installation from iso element
and makes it dependent on grub2 element.
Co-Authored-By: Ramakrishnan G <rameshg87@gmail.com>
Change-Id: I37bcf2c525708d1e2e0f95cf5874a279f76861f7
