Hi!
I am done working on a new build system based on Vagrant, a tool to
prepare and manage development environments in virtual machines (using
VirtualBox). The result of that work can be seen in the
`feature/vagrant` branch.
Nearly quoting the proposed update to the build documentation:
> Tails can be built easily in a virtual machine using Rake, Vagrant and
> VirtualBox. The process requires a minimum of 1 GB of free memory and a
> maximum of 10 GB of free storage.
>
> Installing the needed tools on Debian Wheezy is a matter of:
>
> $ sudo apt-get install virtualbox vagrant rake
>
> Then, please issue:
>
> $ git clone git://git.immerda.ch/amnesia.git
> $ cd amnesia
> $ git checkout feature/vagrant
> $ rake build
>
> The first time, this can take a little while to download the base virtual
> machine from Tails mirror (around 300 MB). It will then boot the machine,
> set it up and start the build process. When done, several `tails-*` files
> should appear in the current directory.
This simple `rake build` should have sane defaults for development:
in-memory builds if enough memory, gzip compression for SquashFS for
development branches, cached website builds, in-VM HTTP proxy. But all
that can be changed through the `TAILS_BUILD_OPTIONS` environment
variable. Please refer to the updated build documentation to know more
about it.
diffstat against devel:
.gitignore | 4 +
Rakefile | 311 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
vagrant/Vagrantfile | 45 ++++
vagrant/definitions/squeeze/definition.rb | 42 ++++
vagrant/definitions/squeeze/postinstall.sh | 51 +++++
vagrant/definitions/squeeze/preseed.cfg.erb | 71 ++++++
vagrant/lib/tails_build_settings.rb | 27 +++
vagrant/lib/vagrant_verified_download.rb | 37 ++++
vagrant/provision/assets/acng.conf | 12 +
vagrant/provision/assets/build-tails | 59 +++++
vagrant/provision/setup-tails-builder | 70 ++++++
wiki/src/contribute/build.mdwn | 169 +++++++++++++--
wiki/src/contribute/design/vagrant.mdwn | 112 ++++++++++
13 files changed, 995 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
Please test, review and comment. English and interface neatpicking is
even encouraged!
I really hope this will help us to get new contributors as getting them
started should be quite easier with all that… Who knows, it might even
work on Windows !
Enjoy,
--
Ague
