The tools image is not guaranteed to be the same distribution as the
target distribution and so might have different package environment
variables than the main image yet we currently unconditionally use the
same package environment variables for both of them.
Let's fix this by not passing the package environment variables to the
tools image and subimages anymore, and instead having the main, tools and
build images separately include a config file with the required environment
variables.
Instead of listing dependencies manually for the default tools tree,
let's reuse the prepare scripts from the build image. To make this work,
the sync script has to be configured for the tools tree as well so that
it's invoked both when building the tools tree and for the regular image,
otherwise, when doing the first build in a fresh checkout, the sync script
won't have executed yet as sync scripts for the regular images are executed
after building the default tools tree.
Maintaining the fmf metadata and script upstream makes it painful
to reuse downstream so let's move the metadata and testing script
downstream and load it upstream instead.
If the GIT_SUBDIR environment variable is set, do not checkout the full sources
of the git repository, but perform a sparse checkout of the directory containing
the package. In this case, check only the commit history in this subdirectory.
We now import the upstream tag in the debian repository, so
this explodes as it tries to walk all upstream commits. Use
--first-parent so that merges only get added via the merge
commit.
Let's rename the tool to tools/fetch-distro. It's useful to be able to fetch
the distro directly. But when that functionality is added, the old name is
confusing.
Now --update/-u must be specified to update the commits.
--reference-if-able is used to speed up the clone of debian.
It saves about 75% of the download.
Daan De Meyer
Antonio Alvarez Feijoo
Luca Boccassi
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek