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Jay Faulkner f831b3d0b6 [gentoo] Fix+Update CI for 23.0 profile

- Adjusts how we remove pacakges. Gentoo maintains a list of packages
  that the user has requested be installed called "world". By
  deselecting the packages, we remove them from this list, and at the
  end, call depclean which will uninstall packages no longer selected or
  needed as dependencies.
- Updates profile logic. We should theoretically be able to support any
  new gentoo profile, without having to maintain a static list ourself
  by just updating the base.
- Updates CI job to use default profile as determined by the gentoo
  element. This basically eliminates one more place we need to update
  profiles on change.
- Ensures we install installkernel with USE=+grub so we actually install
  the kernel
- Do not use testing (~amd64) packages unless absolutely neccessary
- Fix growroot openrc initscript to use /sbin/openrc-run instead of
  deprecated-and-now-removed /sbin/runscript.

Change-Id: Ie9d2ab67d72114603034374854bb3a3d52de8ca4

2024-11-20 12:07:08 -08:00

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Use a Gentoo cloud image as the baseline for built disk images. The images are located in profile specific sub directories:

http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/

As of this writing, only amd64 and arm64 images are available.

Notes:

There are very frequently new automated builds that include changes that happen during the product maintenance. The download directories contain an unversioned name and a versioned name. The unversioned name will always point to the latest image, but will frequently change its content. The versioned one will never change content, but will frequently be deleted and replaced by a newer build with a higher version-release number.
In order to run the package-installs element you will need to make sure dev-python/pyyaml is installed on the host.
In order to run the vm element you will need to make sure sys-block/parted is installed on the host.
The default profile is default/linux/amd64/23.0.
Any amd64 or arm64 profile with a stage tarball published by gentoo in the autobuilds directory for that arch are supported. Warning: the GENTOO_PROFILE environment variable will take precedence over the ARCH environment variable.
You can set the GENTOO_PORTAGE_CLEANUP environment variable to False to disable the clean up of portage repositories (including overlays). This will make the image bigger if caching is also disabled.
In many cases, the resulting image will not have a valid profile set. If you need to interactively use portage in a machine created with DIB, you will need to run eselect profile set some/valid/profile before interacting with portage.
Gentoo supports many different versions of python, in order to select one you may use the GENTOO_PYTHON_TARGETS environment variable to select the versions of python you want on your image. The format of this variable is a string as follows "python3_10 python3_11". This variable only impacts the python versions used for distribution-installed python packages; see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Python/PYTHON_TARGETS for more information.
You can enable overlays using the GENTOO_OVERLAYS variable. In it you should put a space separated list of overlays. The overlays must be in the official overlay list and must be git based.
GENTOO_EMERGE_ENV is a bash array containing default environment variables for package install, you can override it with another bash array.
GENTOO_EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS can be set to control the default options passed to emerge for all package actions, this includes operations like depclean and preserved-rebuild.

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