Ubuntu Old Fashioned

Sometimes you don't want the modern comfort of a distributed build system.

Sometimes just just want to look at a directory and be like "build this now".

Sometimes you don't want to use this scary newfangled "cloud" thing.

Sometimes you're in the mood for something nice and sequential.

Well look no more!

This script is meant to let you build ubuntu cloud images locally from a livecd-rootfs checkout.

Installation

On Ubuntu (only works for Xenial):

sudo add-apt-repository -u ppa:tribaal/oldfashioned
sudo apt install oldfashioned

Note: Since this script relies on launchpad buildd to be available, it will unfortunately not work until that package is made available for other series.

Example

The most simple example to build all ubuntu-cpc images from scratch is:

bzr co lp:livecd-rootfs
cd livecd-rootfs
sudo old-fashioned-image-build

The images will be copied to your $HOME in a "build.output/" folder after about 30 minutes.

Speeding things up a bit

To speed up package lookup you can install "squid-deb-proxy" on the host, then point the host to its own proxy by adding a file like the following:

export LXD_ADDRESS=$(ifconfig lxdbr0 | grep 'inet addr:' | cut -d: -f2 | awk '{ print $1}')
cat > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/30squid-proxy << EOF
Acquire::http::Proxy "http://$LXD_ADDRESS:8000";
EOF

The script will autodetect proxy settings as long as they are set in a file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ .

Extra hooks

If you would like to build with extra hooks, you need to nest them under the ubuntu-cpc part of th livecd-rootfs tree:

bzr co lp:livecd-rootfs
cd livecd-rootfs/xenial/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks
bzr co lp:my-extra-hooks extra

Please make sure your hook files are executable.

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