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Author SHA1 Message Date
Ian Wienand
c48a40d479 Move several packages to bindep.txt
Move several parts of the "install_test_deps.sh" script into the more
standard bindep.txt.  This list is intentionally restricted as a first
step.

Developer documentation is updated to use bindep and clarified
slightly.

Change-Id: I7520902dc324d920a0c7c44a2d35fe49f9b05614
2018-10-29 09:52:13 +11:00
Ian Wienand
d65678678e Move dib-run-parts into diskimage-builder
Move dib-run-parts from dib-utils into diskimage-builder directly.

For calling outside the chroot, we provide a standard entry-point
script.  However, as noted in the warning comment, the underlying
script is still copied directly into the chroot by the dib-run-parts
element.  I believe this to be the KISS approach.

This removes the dependency on dib-utils.  We have discussed this
previously and nobody seemed to think retiring dib-utils was going to
be an issue.

This also updates the documentation to not mention dib-utils, or using
disk-image-create via $PATH setup, but rather gives instructions on
installing from pip with a virtualenv.

Change-Id: Ic1e22ba498d2c368da7d72e2e2b70ff34324feb8
2016-11-04 17:07:37 +11:00
Ian Wienand
91b431ce78 Move element-info to a standard entry-point
Move element-info from a wrapper script to a standard entry-point
console_script.

Update the documentation to explain how to run it for development.  I
don't think we should support the idea that you can check-out the code
and run ./bin/disk-image-create -- it has dependencies (dib-utils,
etc) and needs to be run from a virtualenv (this is what CI in the
gate does).  A follow-up can clean-up some of the path munging stuff
we have for this in disk-image-create.

Change-Id: Ic0c03995667f320a27ac30441279f3e6abb6bca8
2016-09-08 15:29:56 +10:00
Ian Wienand
274be6de55 Making element overriding explicit
This is a re-factor of element_dependencies to achieve two things --
centralising override policy and storing path names.

Firstly we want to make the override policy for elements completely
explicit.  Currently, elements that wish to copy parts of other
elements walk ELEMENTS_PATH themselves and look for elements in
IMAGE_ELEMENT.  How they handle duplicate elements can differ, leading
to inconsistent behaviour.

We introduce logic in element-info to find elements in each of the
directories in ELEMENT_PATHS in *reverse* order -- that is to say,
earlier entries in the paths will overwrite later ones.

For example

 ELEMENT_PATHS=foo:bar:baz

will mean that "foo/element" will override "baz/element", since "foo"
is first.  This should be sane to anyone familiar with $PATH.
Documentation is clarified around this point and a test-case is added.

The second thing is that we want to keep the complete path of the
elements we have chosen.  We want the aforementioned elements that
walk the element list to use these canonical paths to pickup files;
this way they don't need to make local decisions about element
overrides, but can simply iterate a list and copy/merge files if they
exist.

A follow-on change (I7092e1845942f249175933d67ab121188f3511fd) will
expose this data in a separate variable that can be parsed by elements
(a further follow-on I0a64b45e9f2cfa28e84b2859d76b065a6c4590f0
modifies the elements to use this information).  Thus this does not
change the status-quo -- elements that are walking ELEMENTS_PATH
themselves and can/will continue doing that.

Change-Id: I2a29861c67de2d25c595cb35d850e92807d26ac6
2016-09-08 10:58:19 +10:00
Gregory Haynes
62efc03732 Clarify OVERWRITE_OLD_IMAGE docs
There has been some confusion about what this environment variable
controls, and it isnt very clear in the docs.

Change-Id: Id21b3c5ce361c4d1121eb7015020235b4c0a2f36
2016-08-15 12:15:22 -07:00
Ian Wienand
fa3c5e3056 Add image size report
In the common case of not specifying a size, we are already running
"du" over the image to figure out how big it is.  Leverage that by
saving it's output and displaying a pruned list of big files when
requested.

We add a flag to show a summarised option (files >10MiB) and another
to show full output, should you wish that level of detail.

"Invocation" documentation is updated (and formatted a little better
while we're here).

Change-Id: I255800790a62fed1c82fcd311f1cc29c9867766d
2016-03-08 13:58:40 +11:00
Gregory Haynes
360033027f Create a user guide
Our docs are very developer focused. Lets create a separate user guide
to help new users get started.

Change-Id: I8a03920e6d3306dd0405177875ea55ccb4b40fea
2015-04-01 19:51:08 +00:00