~helmut/debvm.git - A tool for creating and running Debian-based VMs

Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
2023-03-05	debvm-create: extend examples in the manual page	Helmut Grohne

2023-02-23	debvm-create: also support --initsystem=busybox	Helmut Grohne
	Reported-by: Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch@debian.org>
2023-02-23	debvm-create: also support --initsystem=runit	Helmut Grohne

2023-02-23	debvm-create: do not fsck	Helmut Grohne
	Asking for a fsck pass in fstab is not what we want. Requiring fsck makes sysvinit fail when fsck.ext4 is missing. Without that pass, it happily boots without e2fsprogs. Link: https://bugs.debian.org/1028267 Thanks: Thorsten Glaster <t.glaser@tarent.de>
2023-02-20	debvm-create: add --initsystem option	Helmut Grohne
	This option allows changing the init system. The notable addition is sysv.
2023-02-20	debvm-create: avoid failing when we install no passwd	Helmut Grohne

2023-02-05	debvm-create: fix resizing of output image	Helmut Grohne
	resize2fs -b will not actually perform a resize. Rather, it will truncate the file to the filesystem length, reversing the earlier truncate call. Thus we need second resize2fs call to change the size of the filesystem. Fixes: 09bcaa8fe901 ("debvm-create: make the ext4 look more like ext4")
2023-02-05	debvm-create: add --skip=initsystem	Helmut Grohne
	Closes: #1030254
2023-02-05	debvm-create: install systemd-sysv rather than init	Helmut Grohne
	We actually expect systemd in the network configuration. Be more honest about this.
2023-02-03	debvm-create: update documentation for --skip=ext4	Helmut Grohne

2023-02-02	debvm-create: Output image in tar format if step "ext4" is skipped	Gioele Barabucci
	Outputting the image in tar format breaks interoperability with `debvm-run`, but makes it easier to inspect, convert or perform additional modifications of the generated image.
2023-02-02	debvm-create: make the ext4 look more like ext4	Helmut Grohne
	One notable difference remains. metadata_csum keeps missing as tune2fs insists on doing this interactively only. Reported-by: Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it> Closes: #1030252
2023-01-17	debvm-create: install only one kernel image	Helmut Grohne
	The apt pattern ?or does not short-circuit. It installs any pattern matching one of the arguments. On amd64, we thus get both the cloud and the non-cloud variant. There aren't that many good options to fix this, so the next best way is using a hook and running apt again, which is suboptimal in terms of repeated triggers, but likely the best we can do at present.
2023-01-17	Merge branch 'cleanup' into 'main'	Helmut Grohne
	Cleanup See merge request helmutg/debvm!25
2023-01-17	Add --skip=autologin	Jochen Sprickerhof

2023-01-17	Allow arbitrary image sizes	Jochen Sprickerhof

2023-01-17	expand architecture coverage	Helmut Grohne
	Give an example of how to use it with ports and add a few architecture-specific cases. Note that m68k and sparc64 do not actually work, because they lack PCI.
2023-01-17	debvm-create: combine ?exact-name with ?not(virtual)	Helmut Grohne
	When apt encounters a package that does not exist, but is referenced via Recommends, Suggests, Breaks or otherwise, it errors out with a missing installation candidate. This happens for linux-image-generic on buster. To avoid this situation, we specifically ask apt to not consider virtual packages whenever we use ?exact-name.
2023-01-17	debvm-create: fix syntax broken in parent commit	Helmut Grohne

2023-01-17	debvm-create: avoid splitting features to multiple code locations	Helmut Grohne

2023-01-17	debvm-create: stop validating the suite	Helmut Grohne
	The only DEBVER check left checks for jessie. We can just compare the name instead. Thus we no longer reject Ubuntu suites such as jammy. This helps with !20, but not yet with #10.
2023-01-17	debvm-create: install linux-image-generic as an alternative kernel name	Helmut Grohne
	This is used on Ubuntu and thus helps with !20.
2023-01-17	debvm-create: use maybe-merged-usr hook	Helmut Grohne
	Requires mmdebstrap >= 1.3.0 Closes: #8
2023-01-17	debvm-create: defer kernel selection to apt	Helmut Grohne
	This requires mmdebstrap >= 1.3.0. Closes: #9
2023-01-15	debvm-create: update documentation for dropped mirror option	Helmut Grohne

2023-01-15	debvm-create: actually drop -m from the getopts invocation	Helmut Grohne
	Fixes: 7a2b46697659 ("Drop mirror option")
2023-01-15	debvm-create: carefully handle a -o filename starting with a dash	Helmut Grohne

2023-01-15	Apply 1 suggestion(s) to 1 file(s)	Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues

2023-01-15	Drop mirror option	Jochen Sprickerhof
	It is not needed and can also be done with: debvm-create -- "deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main"
2023-01-13	debvm-create: remove --package option	Helmut Grohne
	This option was meant to make it convenient to add packages, but mmdebstrap's --include provides the same convenience at more flexibility. You can provide apt patterns there provided that you use multiple --include options. So rather than duplicate this functionality under a different name, just refer to mmdebstrap thus reinforcing the notion of being a thin wrapper. This also removes the convenience of overriding the kernel image. You need to use --skip=kernel when passing --include=linux-image-something to mmdebstrap now. This implements "explicit is better than implicit".
2023-01-13	Merge branch main into helmut	Helmut Grohne
	Resolve conflicts in debvm-create arising from adding --skip and moving the functionality to be skipped to share/customize-*.sh.
2023-01-13	debvm-create: defer the decision of installing libnss-resolve to apt	Helmut Grohne
	Rather than check the DEBVER, let apt figure out whether it knows about a package called libnss-resolve and install it when available.
2023-01-12	debvm-create: also move dpkg's available database to a hook file	Helmut Grohne

2023-01-11	debvm-create: move functionality into support files	Helmut Grohne
	The benefit of this change is that we don't have to escape that much. As a consequence, it becomes easier to put more code into the customization hooks, which have access to installed package versions. Thus we can reduce the use of DEBVER and thus improve working with snapshot.d.o.
2023-01-11	move the debvm-* tools to bin	Helmut Grohne
	The purpose of this change is adding support files to be referenced and called from these tools. Those support files shall be located in ../share and this way of locating them shall work both in-source and when installed.