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We need to be able to do install.d like things for ramdisks themselves, but install.d runs outside the ramdisk context - and its likely to break peoples brains if we mangle the two together - so this adds a new hook point, ramdisk-install, specifically for installing things into the ramdisk. Change-Id: I37d1660309cda6e28bd0b316b08f61db4e080613
This is the ramdisk element.
Almost any user building a ramdisk will want to include this in their build, as it triggers many of the vital functionality from the basic diskimage-builder libraries (such as init script aggregation, busybox population, etc).
An example of when one might want to use this toolchain to build a ramdisk would be the initial deployment of baremetal nodes in a TripleO setup. Various tools and scripts need to be injected into a ramdisk that will fetch and apply a machine image to local disks. That tooling/scripting customisation can be easily applied in a repeatable and automatable way, using this element.
NOTE: ramdisks require 1GB minimum memory on the machines they are booting.
See the top-level README.md of the project, for more information about the mechanisms available to a ramdisk element.