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@@ -1,185 +0,0 @@ -NEWS for vmdb2, the Debian disk image builder -============================================================================= - -Version 0.13.2+git, not yet released ------------------------------------- - -* Source code for vmdb2 is now hosted on git.liw.fi, moved there from - GitHub. - -* Fixed smoke test timeout for starting a VM to 5 min. The previous - timeout (30 s) was short enough that tests often failed because of - it. - -* The `debootstrap` action now finishes with `apt-get update`. For - some reason thing had changed so that this became necessary. - -* Christian Schlüter added the optional `label` field to the `mkfs` - step to set the filesystem label upon creation. - -* Changed the `grub` step to take an optional `image-dev` field to - override the heuristics for finding the device where GRUB is to be - installed. This was necessary to allow vmdb2 to install Debian onto - real hardware. - -* The smoke test now tests a UEFI image as well. - -* The rootfs unpacking action now copies `/etc/resolv.conf` into the - chroot, overwriting what the tarball has. This allows vmdb2 to work - with a tarball generated in a different network location. - -* Add plugins for doing full-disk encryption via cryptsetup, and LVM2. - -* There is now some documentation. - -* Christian Schlüter added support for f2fs labels in the `mkfs` step. - -* Step runners may now implement the `run_even_if_skipped` method to - have code that is run whether the step is skipped or not. The - `debootstrap` step now uses this to run `apt-get update` always. - This allows a rootfs tarball that is old to be used, without the - Packages files being too old to be usable. - -* The `cache_rootfs` step now caches all the explicitly mounted - filesystems, not just the root filesystem. - -Version 0.13.2, released 2018-05-06 ------------------------------------- - -* New build, after CI screwed up. - -Version 0.13.1, released 2018-04-30 ----------------------------------- - -* Fix build-dependency on pandoc. - -Version 0.13.1, released 2018-04-30 ----------------------------------- - - -Version 0.12, released 2018-02-24 ----------------------------------- - -* Minor Debian packaging fixes. - -Version 0.11, released 2018-02-10 ----------------------------------- - -* Build fixes so that .deb doesn't contain Python 2.7 stuff, which - isn't wanted or used. - -Version 0.10, released 2018-02-10 ---------------------------------- - -* Build tweaks to make builds work on Debian unstable. - -Version 0.9, released 2017-10-11 ---------------------------------- - -* Stuart Prescott added a `variant` parameter to the `vmdebootstrap` - plugin. - -* Stuart and Lars documented some of the dependencies in README. If - they're insufficient, report a bug please. - -* Stuart added a `qemu-debootstrap` plugin to build images for a - foreign architecture. - -* Lars Wirzenius added the function `vmdb.runcm_chroot` for executing - programs inside a chroot. It's a short wrapper around `vmdb.runcmd`, - but is a little easier to get right than invoking **chroot**(8) via - `runcmd`. Michael Stapelberg fixed the function. - -* Lars Wirzenius changed it so that `.vmdb` files can have structured - YAML values and their constituent strings are used as Jinja2 - templates. Previously vmdb2 would just crash. This opens a - possibility to have things like "list of packages to install" for - the `apt` step as a YAML list, instead of having the step runner - parse a space delimited list. - -* Michael Stapelberg added the `fs-type` parameter to the `mkpart` - step so that Raspberry Pi images can be created. - -* Lars Wirzenius changed the `apt` step. Previously the `apt` field - values was the name of one package to install. Now the value MUST be - `install` and a separate field `packages` is a YAML list of package - names to install. These will all be installed at once. - -* Michael Stapelberg and Lars Wirzenius added support for a - `components` list to the `qemu-debootstrap` step, to allow giving a - list of components to the debootstrap run by the step. - -Version 0.8, released 2017-07-29 ---------------------------------- - -* The `mount` plugin can now specify a mount point on an already - mounted filesystem, such as /boot inside the root filesystem already - mounted. This allows constructing a system with a separate /boot - partition. Thanks to Stuart Prescott for reporting the lack of this - feature. - -Version 0.7, released 2017-06-18 ---------------------------------- - -* New plugin `virtuals` provides step `mount-virtual-filesystems` for - mounting virtual filesystems such as `/proc` and `/dev` as well. - -* The `apt` step installs `eatmydata` and runs `apt` under it, to - speed up package installs. - -Version 0.6, released 2017-06-11 ---------------------------------- - -* setup.py now installs the plugins, making the .deb package actually - be usable. - -Version 0.5, released 2017-06-04 ---------------------------------- - -* The "unless:" part of vmdb spec files now actually works. Previously - it was entrely unimplmented (there was code to implement the check, - but it was never actually called). The apt and debootstrap plugins - have been fixed to not do "has rootfs tarball been unpacked" checks - themselves. - -Version 0.4, released 2017-06-03 ---------------------------------- - -* Add a rudimenteary smoke test yarn for vmdb2-built images. - -* Add a plugin to run Ansible to configure an image at build time. - Doing this via Ansible saves me from having to write equivalent - functionality directly into vmdb2, which would be quite a lot of - work. (If someone wants puppet, a plugin for that is probably easily - doable, assuming it can run against a chroot. I don't now, I've - never used puppet.) - -Version 0.3, released 2017-05-21 ---------------------------------- - -* Simplify progress reporting to go to stdout, plus stop logging - progress reports ar as errors. - -* Add a BIOS flavor for installing GRUB. - -Version 0.2, released 2017-05-14 ---------------------------------- - -* Add plugin to provide steps to cache the rootfs, and to unpack the - rootfs from the cache, instead of running debootstrap or installing - packages. This speeds up iteration time from about 9 minutes to 40 - seconds on my laptop. See small.vmdb for an example. - -* Add a generic "unless this condition is true" functionality to - steps. If a step has a field "unless: foo" it is skipped the - variable foo exists and is true. The variables are set by steps, and - currently only the rootfs unpacking step sets a variable (the - `rootfs_unpacked` variable). This allows debootstrap to be skipped - if the rootfs has already been created by unpacking a cached - tarball. - -Version 0.1, released 2017-05-13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - -This is the first release. It can build a UEFI image for the amd64 -architecture. It's not meant to really be useful for other people. |