The lorax-composer program will launch a BDCS compatible API server
using Flask and Gevent. Currently this is a skeleton application with
only one active route (/api/v0/status).
The API code lives in ./src/pylorax/api/v0.py with related code in other
pylorax/api/* modules.
This reduces the amount of code in livemedia-creator to the cmdline
parsing and calling of the installer functions. Moving them into other
modules will allow them to be used by other projects, like the
lorax-composer API server.
This requires OVMF to be setup on the system, and for the kickstart to
create a /boot/efi/ partition. You can then use it to create UEFI
bootable partitioned disk images.
The UEFI firmware needs to be installed manually on the system, either
in the default location of /usr/share/OVMF/ or use --ovmf-path to point
to the location.
Resolves: rhbz#1546715
Resolves: rhbz#1544805
Use it to override the default dracut arguments (displayed as part of
the --help output). If you want to extend the default arguments they
all need to be passed in on the cmdline as well. eg.
--dracut-arg='--xz' --dracut-arg='--install /.buildstamp' ...
Resolves: rhbz#1452220
This uses the --release value as the yum releasever so that $releasever
in a --repo will work.
It also turns on assumeyes so that any gpgkey entries in the .repo file
will be installed and used automatically if gpgcheck is enabled for the
repo.
Related: rhbz#1430479
This makes it easier to specify existing repos with extra args, eg.
/etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo generated by subscription-manager.
Resolves: rhbz#1430479
Previously lorax had no way to use repos with self-signed certificates.
This adds the --noverifyssl cmdline option which will ignore certificate
errors.
Resolves: rhbz#1430483
commit 5da9f5c179 cleaned up the resultdir
handling, but didn't take into account that on master shutil.copytree
was switched to imgutil.copytree which doesn't care if the empty
directory exists or not.
Resolves: rhbz#1362157
The cherry-pick for commit 0d28b9e09c
dropped the patch into the middle of setup_logging and added a (unused)
main() function so things would still run, but logging wasn't being
setup properly.
This removes the main() and moves the default_image_name() function
after all of the logging setup code.
Resolves: rhbz#1361031
The correct way with the current dracut (and it should be backwards
compatible) is to reference it as stage2=hd:LABEL=...
(cherry picked from commit 4bc4b4c5a5)
Resolves: rhbz#1355882
If the --config file doesn't exist lorax will fall back to its defaults,
which are probably not what you want. Now it will exit if it doesn't
exist.
Resolves: rhbz#1348302
(cherry picked from commit 748259619b)
When an image name hasn't been passed, and the compression type is
something other than xz, the default image name should use the user
specified compression suffix.
Resolves: rhbz#1318958
(cherry picked from commit f753a064b8)
Recently, Fedora has been trying to do a 3 product split. As part of
that, lorax was changed to do "installpkg lorax-product-*" via
provides.
I think that approach is awkward; a much simpler approach is to simply
specify the product package as input to lorax on the command line, via
external rel-eng scripts.
This patch therefore adds --installpkgs (and we should probably add an
option to remove the implicit lorax-product-* glob).
(cherry picked from commit 52d962d613)
Resolves: rhbz#1272222
The system the image boots on will likely not match the host where lorax
was run, and in some cases this can cause systems to hang.
Resolves: rhbz#1258498
The anaconda rebase changed the repo download failure to ERR, fix this
in the log watching code so that it will shut down the VM when it hits
it.
Related: rhbz#1196721
I originally added --add-template to support doing something similar
to pungi, which injects content into the system to be used by default.
However, this causes the content to be part of the squashfs, which
means PXE installations have to download significantly more data that
they may not need (if they actually want to pull the tree data from
the network, which is not an unusual case).
What I actually need is to be able to modify *both* the runtime image
and the arch-specific content. For the runtime, I need to change
/usr/share/anaconda/interactive-defaults.ks to point to the new
content. (Although, potentially we could patch Anaconda itself to
auto-detect an ostree repository configured in disk image, similar to
what it does for yum repositories)
For the arch-specfic image, I want to drop my content into the ISO
root.
So this patch adds --add-arch-template and --add-arch-template-var
in order to do the latter, while preserving the --add-template
to affect the runtime image.
Further, the templates will automatically graft in a directory named
"iso-graft/" from the working directory (if it exists).
(I suggest that external templates create a subdirectory named
"content" to avoid clashes with any future lorax work)
Thus, this will be used by the Atomic Host lorax templates to inject
content/repo, but could be used by e.g. pungi to add content/rpms as
well.
I tried to avoid code deduplication by creating a new template for the
product.img bits and this, but that broke because the parent boot.iso
code needs access to the `${imggraft}` variable. I think a real fix
here would involve turning the product.img, content/, *and* boot.iso
into a new template.
Resolves: rhbz#1202278
This adds the --qcow2 option to create qcow2 disk images in virt and
no-virt modes. You can pass extra options to qemu-img with --qcow2-arg
(cherry picked from commit b73aeb92a9)
Resolves: rhbz#1210413
Resolves: rhbz#1184021
--make-pxe-live target generate live squashfs and initrd for pxe boot.
Also generates pxe config template.
--make-ostree-live is used for installations of Atomic Host. Additionally to
--make-pxe-live it ensures using deployment root instead of physical root of
installed disk image where needed. Atomic installation needs to be virt
installation with /boot on separate partition (the only way supported by
Anaconda currently). Content of boot partition is added to live root fs so that
ostree can find deployment by boot configuration.
In this case, we don't need to pass a repo parameter to anaconda. It's running
in a VM and knows how to deal with a kickstart file.
Related: rhbz#1184021
What I need is to make something like the traditional DVD which also
includes packages. At present this is apparently handled by the
entirely separate pungi tool.
At the moment for me, it's the least bad option to modify lorax to
inject data from an external source than to create a new tool, or
attempt to also modify pungi to do this.
This would also allow pungi's DVD creation to eventually be a set of
external templates for Lorax.
(cherry picked from commit 66359415be)
Resolves: rhbz#1157777
The aarch64 change to use shim (6907567) also stopped using mixed-case
names for BOOT${efiarch}.efi (so it's always .EFI and ${efiarch} is X64
IA32 AA64 etc. now), and mkefiboot needs to match that.
Related: rhbz#1100048
Incidentally, this should fix are aych bee zee one zero four three two
seven four.
This adds the --make-tar option which will produce a xz compressed tar
of the root filesystem. This works with either virt-install or no-virt
modes. Use --image-name to set the output filename.
--compression is used to set the compression type to use, which defaults
to xz. Supported types are xz, lzma, gzip and bzip2.
--compress-arg is used to pass arguments to the compression utility.
(cherry picked from commit d04a99e8f4)
Resolves: rhbz#1144140
If the user supplies a fsimage to use for the iso it may not be on the
same filesystem as the working directory. Try to hardlink first, but if
that fails copy the image.
(cherry picked from commit b3e80b7564)
Related: rhbz#1144140
--make-fsimage was only working with --no-virt, this re-structures
things so that virt-install partitioned disk images can be converted to
a fsimage. --make-ami was actually already doing this, so change it to
use --make-fsimage and set the default image name to "ami-root.img" with
a label of "AMI".
This also adds the ability to set the fs label on iso fsimage and
fsimages created with --make-fsimage and --make-ami by passing
--fs-label, but note that bootable iso's expect the Anaconda label.
(cherry picked from commit 19d8304070)
Related: rhbz#1144140
When running lmc with --no-virt yum will use /tmp/ to cache some things.
If the kickstart or repos change between runs this cache can become
stale so remove it when lmc is finished.
Resolves: 1073502
The ppc config files were missing from the live config_files directory
and ppc needs the correct lib directory so lmc has been switched to use
ArchData driven from the installed kernel arch.
Resolves: rhbz#1102318
When doing an image install there is no .buildstamp file to pull the
information from so use the cmdline variables (or their defaults) and
pass them to anaconda in the environment.
Resolves: rhbz#1067746
Also adds a check for a bad url repo, and fix ram calculation for
appliance mode. Updates the README.livemedia-creator documentation.
Resolves: rhbz#1019728
Alexander Todorov
Brian C. Lane
Colin Walters
Radek Vykydal
Chris Lumens
Peter Jones
Harald Hoyer