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
Currently when these files are opened your editor doesn't know what to
do with them. Add #!/bin/bash to library functions so that editors,
diff-tools, etc can do syntax highlighting.
There are other ways to skin this cat, such as renaming to ".sh",
adding -* style editor flags, etc. We had this discussion in DevStack
too, and came to the conclusion the simplest thing that works for
everyone is to just put the #! at the top.
Change-Id: I4cf64321e14844696139f5d40e4d719436390b35
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
ramdisk-defaults file is sourced before chroot to an image being created
is executed. Busybox path should be set inside chroot instead.
Change-Id: Ic0e1d3093ca9d489dd96b14157e93b336cf0baee
In some scenarios, the required space in the tmpfs partition can be
larger (or smaller) than the default one, producing errors due to
the lack of enough space (or performance penalties for not using
tmpfs).
Using --min-tmpfs <size>, we can hint the working set size we'll need
and let dib choose to avoid or use tmpfs.
Change-Id: I7d5fe498302a100c8555ae542268e14b21f3a0c5
Ramdisks are now built inside a chroot which is built by the normal
image build process. Doing so improves our independence of the
precise state of the build host.
This fixes bug 1194055.
Change-Id: Ibc254fbb9e7b404b5f38c1b35bcde8a4136e8e28
For machines with low RAM (or no access to /proc/meminfo) the builder
will still run, but will just build inside the filesystem that is
hosting /tmp. This will result in a slower build (especially if there
are a lot of .deb packages installed).
Fixes bug #1175453
Change-Id: I79f2672058c11e377548820df0ab4fad8f47ffdc
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
ELEMENTS_DIR env var was not being set by lib/ramdisk-defaults.
This caused ramdisk-image-create to fail.
Change-Id: I25ec43feddb8ef546dba83a77b8488fee98d4a17
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
