diskimage-builder/elements/debian
Saverio Proto 0d364d49cf Debian: dont set always the hostname to debian
If we dont force the hostname to be debian, the hostname will
be the one choosen when creating the instance with horizon

This bug was introduced when the debian element was split
into debian and debian-minimal and debootstrap in commit 23aa76df

Change-Id: I007a3531f6876890a2e113082211889ec5ead1a1
2016-04-06 11:05:53 +02:00
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bin Standarise tracing for scripts 2015-02-12 10:41:32 +11:00
install.d Debian: dont set always the hostname to debian 2016-04-06 11:05:53 +02:00
test-elements/build-succeeds Set DIB_RELEASE for the Debian test-element 2015-08-03 17:59:35 +10:00
element-deps Split the debootstrap functions into an element 2015-04-26 18:04:59 +00:00
element-provides Use provides to note an element provides an OS 2014-04-10 14:42:04 +01:00
package-installs.yaml Fix debian-minimal image building 2016-01-28 16:41:35 +03:00
README.rst Split the debootstrap functions into an element 2015-04-26 18:04:59 +00:00

debian

Create an image based on Debian. We default to unstable but DIB_RELEASE is mapped to any series of Debian.

Note that the default Debian series is unstable, and the default mirrors for Debian can be problematic for unstable. Because apt does not handle changing Packages files well across multiple out of sync mirrors, it is recommended that you choose a single mirror of debian, and pass it in via DIB_DISTRIBUTION_MIRROR.

If necessary, a custom apt keyring and debootstrap script can be supplied to the debootstrap command via DIB_APT_KEYRING and DIB_DEBIAN_DEBOOTSTRAP_SCRIPT respectively. Both options require the use of absolute rather than relative paths.

Use of this element will also require the tool 'debootstrap' to be available on your system. It should be available on Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora.

The DIB_OFFLINE or more specific DIB_DEBIAN_USE_DEBOOTSTRAP_CACHE variables can be set to prefer the use of a pre-cached root filesystem tarball.

The DIB_DEBOOTSTRAP_EXTRA_ARGS environment variable may be used to pass extra arguments to the debootstrap command used to create the base filesystem image. If --keyring is is used in DIB_DEBOOTSTRAP_EXTRA_ARGS, it will override DIB_APT_KEYRING if that is used as well.

Note on ARM systems

Because there is not a one-to-one mapping of ARCH to a kernel package, if you are building an image for ARM on debian, you need to specify which kernel you want in the environment variable DIB_ARM_KERNEL. For instance, if you want the linux-image-mx5 package installed, set DIB_ARM_KERNEL to mx5.