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Remove caching

Using package caches to create the helper image is dangerous now that
snf-image-helper is automatically retrieved.

Add apt preferences dir for multistrap

The files hosted in this directory will be added in the
/etc/apt/preferences.d directory of the helper image before multistrap
runs.

Update ChangeLog and configure.ac for ver. 0.6.4

Update ChangeLog and configure.ac for ver. 0.6.3

Update ChangeLog and configure.ac for ver. 0.6.2

Change default error msg in monitoring

Fix error and info messages

Support installing snf-image-helper from apt repos

snf-image-update-helper should check when creating a helper VM if
an snf-image-helper package was installed from an apt repository
through multistrap. If this is the case, snf-image-update-helper
should not complain about not finding the HELPER_PKG.

Use env. variables to pass options to pithcat

This is done for security reasons. The options may contain sensitive
data like the Pithos DB password and while the program (pithcat) is
running the whole command line is exposed to everyone through ps.

Disable fsyncs in helper's VM resize operation

You can disable this behaviour by defining the DO_SYNC image property.

Replace debootstrap with multistrap

multistrap is more flexible allows as to define more that one
repository to retrieve packages from.

Remove the boot and shutdown process in helper VM

Make snf-image-helper ran as init process when calling the helper
VM. Also make the helper VM shut down quickly by using the shut off
SysRq.

Add IMAGE_DEBUG variable

if this is set, then snf-image will run in debug mode.

Remove enable-network-backend flag from configure

The curl dependency is not optional any more.

Add working import and export scripts

Update ChangeLog and configure for version 0.5

Update ChangeLog and configure.ac for v0.4.1

Fix minor typo

Don't strip stderr lines in image-error msgs

Add stderr-monitor.py for monitoring stderr

This programm will get the stderr file as input and it will create a
json image-error msg

Minor changes in monitoring protocol

Change msg field to messages in monitoring messages with type
image-helper and subtype error or warning. The new field is a list
of strings.

Remove redundant location field in error messages

Prefix all monitoring message types with image-

Fix a bug in error reporting json string

A `{' was missing in the beginning of the json string of the message
with type `error'.

Add copyright info in verify

cleanup! cleanup! cleanup! cleanup!

• Change the monitor message type names once again (hope this is
  the final version)
• Pass -u (unbuffered) to sed to retain the actual output order in
  the log file
• Fix a bug in helper code where the starting `{' was missing from...

Abandon timelimit program in favor of timeout

The latter is part of gnu coreutils.

Cleanup monitoring code

• Add nanoseconds field in timestamp
• Remove id field in the notifications
• Fix cleanup code

Add monitoring event for errors in create

Add mechanism for monitoring snf-image events

Add a utility initially written by vkoukis for monitoring the image
copy. This utility outputs notifications to a named pipe. An external
program can get informed for the image deployment progress by reading
the notifications from this named pipe. The monitoring mechanism...

Update ChangeLog and configure for v0.4

Add mechanism for using a custom unattend.xml

snf-image-helper by default uses it's own version of unattend.xml file,
but if UNATTEND variable is specified then it will use the one provided
by snf-image-host.

Create a package list file after every debootstrap

This file is used to check if the cache file contains every package
defined in HELPER_EXTRA_PKGS.

Update ChangeLog and configure for version 0.3.6

Update configure.ac and ChangeLogs for v0.3.5

Update configure.ac and ChangeLogs for v0.3.3

Output the error helper VM returns

Update configure.ac and ChangeLogs for v0.3.2

Update ChangeLogs for v0.3.1

Update PACKAGE_VERSION in configure.ac to 0.3

Fix a bash bug in create

The bug had to do with the presence of a space character right after =
in a variable assignment.

Host helper's COW and result file in a tmpfs jail

This way we can restrict the size of the files created by the helper.

Update AUTHORS list

Add Giorgos Verigakis in the AUTHORS list for contributing pithcat.

Clean up code and support pithos-hosted images

• Drop "custom" image format type. The same functionality is provided
  by network-hosted images.
• Images with id that starts with "http:", "https:", "ftp:", "ftps:"
  are considered to be network hosted and are downloaded via cURL....

Add pithcat tool

It connects to a Pithos backend and either fetches
the data of a file or returns its size.

Refs #1745

Fix yet another syntax error introduced in 78e9f20

Make image properties optional

Image properties should be an optional argument. In any other case
snf-image does not retail backward compatibility.

Update ChangeLogs for v0.2

Fix a bug in host's floppy exported variables

The bug was triggered when a variable contained new lines

Remove " from variables hosting program names.

This way the scripts won't fail if someone adds input arguments after
the program name inside the variable.