This also adds a snippet for always getting the most recent version of the qcow2 image.

Rename initramfs file

See merge request !137

The naming scheme has changed: archiso!74

Use tagged release as BUILD_VERSION if set

See merge request !136

In my tests this gains us about 10MB.

I found that it otherwise sometimes fails to resolve in time when pacman needs it.

Use -smp 4 for qemu

See merge request archlinux/arch-boxes!129

Will more cores make the build faster? Let's find out.

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

Print message while waiting for device to come up

See merge request archlinux/arch-boxes!127

Workaround race condition in the partition scanning logic

Closes #114

See merge request archlinux/arch-boxes!126

Fix #114

Switch to new version format of YYYYMMDD.CI_JOB_ID

See merge request archlinux/arch-boxes!125

This will allow us to make multiple releases a day which would be nice for hotfixes and such.

The README was basically entirely out of date.

This will allow us to link a release to a file to specific Vagrant Cloud version.

Implement secure deployment concept

See merge request archlinux/arch-boxes!123

Remove python and linux-headers and only install netctl in the vagrant images

Closes #111

See merge request archlinux/arch-boxes!120

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

Fix incorrect path to packer-virtualbox.vmdk

See merge request archlinux/arch-boxes!122

Add size metric report

See merge request archlinux/arch-boxes!121

See also https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/metrics_reports.html

Our security concept doesn't allow us to move artifacts built in non-secure environments to secure environments.
This means we'll have to make sure that the boxes we release are built on a runner marked as
'secure'.