Getting the contents of the directory in the buildcache involves using
rsync with some ssh invocation to log in as a bincache user. It's not
a thing that will work locally unless the user gets ahold of the SSH
key allowing the user to log in to buildcache as a bincache user.
Replace it by downloading two files that are actually needed for
building vms: an image file and the version file. This just uses curl
and is accessible for everyone.
This uses the new size-change-report.sh script to print out some
information about largest files being added/removed and files with
greatest increase/decrease in file size between two versions of the
image.
This relies on flatcar_production_image_initrd_contents.txt being
uploaded to the server. It also exports the WITHWTD environment
variable with a value 1, which will make the package-diff script to
try out the wtd contents file variant first.
Timestamp and user/group information are out, in are device ID and
inode number. That way, the file can be used for accounting size
differences of files/image.
Normally `ln -sf path/to/target at/name` will create a symlink at
`at/name` that points to `path/to/target`. But if `at/name` already
exists and is a directory or a symlink to some other directory, then
this command will create a symlink at `at/name/target` pointing to
`path/to/target`. There is an ambiguity between 1st and 3rd form of
`ln` (please refer to `man ln` for the available invocation forms). It
can be disambiguated by using the `-T` flag to force the 1st form.
In our case, if `/etc/portage/patches` symlink already existed and was
pointing to `<coreos-overlay>/coreos/user-patches`, we ended up with a
useless symlink at `<coreos-overlay>/coreos/user-patches/user-patches`
pointing to `<coreos-overlay>/coreos/user-patches`.
This was a place I missed where /etc/portage is set up. Because of it,
user patches for sys-devel/gcc were not picked up.
Also stop using deprecated PORTDIR and PORTDIR_OVERLAY getters. We
still set those variables, but we will drop them eventually.
