feat(ambient-build-vm): allow user to pick Debian release for image

Signed-off-by: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
Sponsored-by: author

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ambient-build-vm b/ambient-build-vm
index 49a1c3e..3eeec39 100755
--- a/ambient-build-vm
+++ b/ambient-build-vm
@@ -50,6 +50,14 @@ def parse_args():
         help="filename for resulting image (required)",
         required=True,
     )
+
+    p.add_argument(
+        "--debian",
+        action="store",
+        help="install Debian version (codename) instead of the default (%default)",
+        default="bookworm",
+    )
+
     return p.parse_args()
 
 
@@ -73,6 +81,10 @@ def prepare_build_files(tmp, args):
 
     vmdb = load_yaml(join(args, BASE_VMDB))
 
+    for step in vmdb["steps"]:
+        if "debootstrap" in step:
+            step["debootstrap"] = args.debian
+
     for playbook in args.playbook:
         vmdb["steps"].append(
             {