I'm not sure polkit is needed in the vagrant images, but it is
definitely not needed in the cloud-image.

It has never be enabled, makes zero sense in a cloud-image and isn't
used by vagrant.

https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/modules.html#growpart

Even though the system isn't booted, a machine-id is generated when
systemd is installed (by the .install script).

Fixes: 0b60f5a4 ("Remove "remove machine-id" logic")

Fix #117

In my tests this gains us about 10MB.

We still have the problem where the partition table or device appears too late.
Hopefully this fixes it.

Fix #114

Kristian Klausen authored Sep 26, 2020 and Sven-Hendrik Haase committed Sep 26, 2020

netctl is only required by vagrant < v2.2.10

Kristian Klausen authored Sep 26, 2020 and Sven-Hendrik Haase committed Sep 26, 2020

Python was added due to DevOps demands (Ansible).
linux-headers is not needed and I'm not sure why it was added.

Fix #111

... and use readonly, local and adding a few more comments.

A machine-id is never generated, as the system isn't booted.

Using actual VMs to build VMs is slow and error-prone (you need to use
VNC to see what is going on, and booting takes over +110 seconds as we
wait to be sure Arch Linux is ready).

build.sh can build all three images in ~135 seconds (assuming all the
packages is cached), we still need to use a VM for the actually building
in GitLab CI (as that is the only safe way it can be done at the
moment), which is a bit slower (~22 min vs ~13 min (Packer)), but that
isn't really a big issue.

In the future we can hopefully switch to Kate Containers[1] and reduce
the build time significantly.

[1] infrastructure#108