The old chroot version system we inherited from Chromium OS always
assumes that a newly unpacked tarball is the latest and greatest but
since we version the SDK in the same way as target builds we can use
that version for these sorts of upgrade scripts and not make assumptions
about how late and great the starting tarball was.
The first upgrade script simply aborts to force the user to recreate
their chroot when moving from python 2.6 to 2.7.
I want to start including version info in SDK builds as an alternative
scheme to the existing "chroot_version_hooks" system which always
assumes freshly unpacked SDKs are the latest regardless of what version
they actually were.
The recommended command using the config file was triggering a massive
memory leak in qemu because it was adding both the default virtual
hardware nic as well as the virtio nic. This could be worked around by
adding something like -net none or moving all the -net commands from the
file to the command line but eh. Clearly qemu config files are used and
tested by nobody else so lets just use a trusty script instead.
Vagrant will need the virtualbox ovf plus its own Vagrantfile config.
After this we will need an optional "package" step to this script to
take these files and bundle them into a .box tarball. This could also be
used to switch from .ovf+vmdk for plain virtualbox images to a bundled
.ova archive which combines the two.
Trying to include version info by adding the directory name to VM image
names didn't work and a better solution is for build_image to write out
a version.txt file. This should also fix an issue where uploading from
image_to_vm.sh didn't always go to the same location as the images
uploaded from build_image did.
As of Linux 3.2 loopback supports discard by punching holes in the
underlying file. This doesn't actually seem to impact things right now
since we are writing to fresh filesystems but might as well do this to
prevent wasted space from sneaking in later on.
Enable sparse files for all dd and cp commands and replace some dd
commands that are really better off being truncate commands.
While in the neighborhood there were a number of useless sudo commands
for things that just happen to be in sbin. Call them directly instead.
Ever since adding prod it hasn't been possible to build just dev and
prod without explicitly building base. Base is always built but usually
there is no point to keeping it around. Add some logic to make dev not
conflict with prod and make sure base is deleted and not uploaded if it
wasn't explicitly requested.
Its single use is in build_common and even then having a little progress
bar for copying images isn't that interesting, they just get lost in the
noise of the emerge output. Keep it simple, use cp.
