Hello,
I’m interested in the best way to pass arbitrary options to distrobuilder from the CLI. I’ll show what I mean by an example. This is what I’m currently doing to mount a directory passed as a CLI argument in the container.
The command:
distrobuilder build-lxc $distro.yaml $distro --options image.description=$datadir
The relevant section of the config file:
targets:
lxc:
config:
- type: all
content: |-
lxc.arch = {{ image.architecture_personality }}
lxc.mount.entry = {{ image.description }} home/user/export none bind,create=dir
Then when I start the image with LXC, the directory passed in image.description is mounted as /home/user/export.
Now I realize this is not ideal. The reason I do it this way is because distrobuilder doesn’t let me pick any name in –options, I have to pick one of the existing names and abuse it. The other alternative would have been to wrap it in a script and generate a new YAML file each time, which I think isn’t any better, but may be necessary if I have to pass more arguments.
My questions:
- Is what I’m doing reasonable? I don’t mean using image.description, that’s clearly madness, I mean the goal of parameterizing the image this way.
- Is there a better way?