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
uses upstream's stage4 images, includes all the needed bells and
whistles for openstack on kvm.
Change-Id: Ibca43173c30c2a74a73a2e2d9dd6d6d832c62694
Closes-Bug: 1530911
Adds a new svc-map element which can be used to install
services based on an in element 'svc-map' YAML config
file format.
This change is intended to decouple elements from DIB
and allow new elements to support multiple distributions
(with various service naming schemes) without having to
constantly maintain DIB's various bin/map-services files.
This patch ensures all of the YAML files are compiled into
a single file without namespaces. The YAML compilation
process occurs during image creation time and errors if
conflicting mappings are found.
Change-Id: Id11433ea342aace71a358936a7ca3151ec11d506
