refine strategy to spot ip address, keep on calling guest_ipv4

[build.git] / README-pldistros.txt

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-we've tried to isolate the distro-dependent configurations from the code
-the places where these distro-dependent config files lie are
+We've tried to isolate the distro-dependent configurations from the code
 
-./build/groups/<pldistro>.xml 
-       that is used as the yumgroups.xml 
+Most of the .pgks files are optional to define a new distro:
+missing files are searched in the planetlab distro
+
+========== build environment
 ./build/<pldistro>.mk
-       that defines the contents of the build
+       that defines the contents of the build -- see Makefile
 ./build/<pldistro>-tags.mk
        that defines the svn locations of the various modules
 ./build/<pldistro>-install.mk
        optional make file to define the install target
-./build/<pldistro>-devel.lst
+
+========== kernel config
+./Linux-2.6/configs/kernel-2.6.<n>-<arch>-<pldistro>.config
+       (subject to change location in the future)
+
+========== various system images
+./build/config.<pldistro>/devel.pkgs
        set of packages required for building
+./build/config.<pldistro>/bootcd.pkgs
+       contents of the bootcd image
+./build/config.<pldistro>/nodeimage.pkgs
+       the standard contents of the node software
+        this results in a tarball (tar.bz2) 
+       also used to generate yumgroups.xml on the plc side
+./build/config.<pldistro>/nodeimage-*.pkgs
+       each of these files results in an extension tarball
+./build/config.<pldistro>/sliceimage.pkgs
+       the contents of the standard vserver reference image
+./build/config.<pldistro>/sliceimage-*.pkgs
+       all *.pkgs files here - produce additional vserver images
+./build/config.<pldistro>/vtest.pkgs
+       used to create test vservers for myplc-native
+./build/config.<pldistro>/yumexclude.pkgs
+       describe the set of node packages that are produced by the myplc build
+       and thus should be excluded from the stock fedora repos
+
+=== extensions
+as of this writing extensions are managed as follows:
+- at node installation, the tarball produced from nodeimage.pkgs is
+downloaded and untared to produce the node root filesystem
+- then we attempt to install an extension corresponding to each of the
+extensions that the node has in its 'extensions' tag
+- the first method is to try and download a tarball named after the
+extension. such tarballs are produced by the build from a .pkgs file,
+see above
+- if that fails, then the extension install is attempted through a
+ yum groupinstall extension<nodegroup>
 
-./bootcd/<pldistro>-bootcd.lst
-./bootstrapfs/<pldistro>-base.lst
-./bootstrapfs/<pldistro>-filesystems
-       all *.lst files here - produce tar.bz2 images
-./myplc/<pldistro>-plc.lst
-./vserver/<pldistro>-vserver.lst
-./vserver/<pldistro>-vservers
-       all *.lst files here - produce vserver images