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James Slagle 15960f01cd Add ability to use local cloud image 
Adds the ability to set $DIB_LOCAL_IMAGE to use as the base cloud image
for a Fedora image build. There are many repetitve tasks that are done
every image build. With this change you can build an image with the
fedora and vm element and then reuse the resulting image as input to
future image builds. This greatly reduces future image build times.

For instance 99-up-to-date is already taking almost 2 minutes (even with
rpm downloads already cached) for Fedora 20, and is only going to keep
taking longer. By having a local up to date Fedora cloud image, this
time can be saved on each image build.

There is one minor change to support this in that /tmp/grub needs to get
cleaned up at the end of image builds so that the image can be reused.
Plus, there is no reason for it to stick around anyway.  (didn't think
this was worth a seperate commit).

Change-Id: Ic74d138da922ecc99c38c27f105170d90009a84a
2014-01-28 11:01:30 -05:00

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Use Fedora cloud images as the baseline for built disk images.

Overrides:

  • To use a non-default URL for downloading base Fedora cloud images, use the environment variable DIB_CLOUD_IMAGES
  • To download a non-default release of Fedora cloud images, use the environment variable DIB_RELEASE
  • Alternatively, set DIB_LOCAL_IMAGE to the local path of a qcow2 cloud image. This is useful in that you can use a customized or previously built cloud image from diskimage-builder as input. The cloud image does not have to have been build by diskimage-builder. It should be a full disk image, not just a filesystem image.