diskimage-builder/elements/source-repositories/README.md
Chris Jones 4c7a3bf79f Improve source-repositories git caching.
We now unconditionally cache the repositories being fetched with
source-repositories.

Additionally, by improving the way we handle repository refs, we are now
able to build images with code taken directly from gerrit reviews.

Change-Id: Ifd4c5691f6761eb5551663e6d0aa1c0e42afced3
2013-12-20 14:48:30 +00:00

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With this element other elements can register source code repositories by
placing their details in the file source-repository-\*. An example
of an element "custom-element" that wants to retrieve the ironic source
from git and pbr from a tarball would be
*File : elements/custom-element/source-repository-ironic*
#<name> <type> <destination> <location> [<ref>]
# <ref> defaults to master if not specified
ironic git /usr/local/ironic git://git.openstack.org/openstack/ironic.git
*File : elements/custom-element/source-repository-pbr*
pbr tar /usr/local/pbr http://tarballs.openstack.org/pbr/pbr-master.tar.gz
diskimage-builder will then retrieve the sources specified and place them
at the directory \<destination\>
A number of environment variables can be set by the process calling
diskimage-builder which can change the details registered by the element, these are
DIB_REPOTYPE_<name> : change the registered type
DIB_REPOLOCATION_<name> : change the registered location
DIB_REPOREF_<name> : change the registered reference
for example if you would like diskimage-builder to get ironic from a local
mirror you could set DIB_REPOLOCATION_ironic=git://localgitserver/ironic.git
Alternatively if you would like to use the keystone element and build an image with
keystone from a stable branch then you would set DIB_REPOREF_keystone=stable/grizzly
If you wish to build an image using code from a gerrit review, you can set
DIB_REPOLOCATION_<name> and DIB_REPOREF_<name> to the values given by gerrit in the
fetch/pull section of a review. For example:
DIB_REPOLOCATION_nova=https://review.openstack.org/openstack/nova
DIB_REPOREF_nova=refs/changes/72/61972/8
Git sources will be cloned to \<destination\>
Tarballs will be extracted to \<destination\>. Tarballs should contain a
single topleval directory, regardless of the name of this top level directory
it will be renamed to \<destination\>
If multiple elements register a source location with the same <destination>
then source-repositories will exit with an error. Care should therefore be taken
to only use elements together that download source to different locations.
The repository paths built into the image are stored in
etc/dib-source-repositories, one repository per line. This permits later review
of the repositories (by users or by other elements).