A user running di-b several times while developing an element may not
want to drop to a shell in all cases but may only want to do so if one
of their in target hooks failed.
This patch gives them the ability to do so, If break=after-error is set
then a user will be provided a in target shell taking over from where the
last failed command left off.
Change-Id: Ia2f7ac4c21b64b971f87f4ae9cb867981b13eb5e
While following install instructions in README.md it should be more
clear how to install qemu-img on your system.
Change-Id: Ibb8828806bf46716b91b83a4eea696f4fe478206
Complex image builds can download hundreds of MB of data from the
internet with many separate lookups. It would be nice to allow users
to ask for a fast build where those lookups are entirely avoided,
using locally cached resources (where possible). This new interface
allows users to signal to elements that they wish to operate without
updating cached resources, which will in turn allow us to avoid
checking for stale data at all.
As part of this I've also documented where we cache data, so that
things like the ccache cache dir and image cache files are not a
surprise to users.
Change-Id: I27f5de6ceaa4e9c6390721b7c434fe0908df84f5
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
Before each phase dib-run-parts will pick these up to setup the
environment for the commands it runs.
Change-Id: I56697d7bc370918d4063eee67a1c35d4988a5359
Apply kernel command line parameters to force Linux to remain in text
mode. Typical distro kernels quickly switch into a graphical screenmode
and this is incompatible with common Lights Out Management hardware
which is able to intercept text mode consoles to display them remotely.
Change-Id: Id553972c4fd87e78c9e6fe344331a399913d965e
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
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
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
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 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
Fix a typo in the base element itself.
Refer to it early in the README since it is likely to be useful to
almost everyone.
Change-Id: I4a753b61542f8a354ade7fcc4436076aec61e6c0
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
