This patch adds bittorrent support to 45url-lib for those that might want
to retrieve the same live image for multiple systems at once without
saturating the network.
This patch requires ctorrent to be installed into initramfs.
Torrent kernel command line format:
root=live:torrent://example.com/liveboot.img.torrent
Start a tracker:
bttrack --bind <tracker_ip> --port 6969 --dfile dstate --reannounce_interval 60
Create the torrent:
ctorrent -t live_image -u http://<tracker_ip>:6969/announce -s live_image.torrent
Seed the initial torrent:
ctorrent live_image.torrent
Boot the live image.
Add new functions require_binaries() and require_any_binary() to be used
in the check() section of module-setup.sh.
These functions print a warning line telling the user, which binary is
missing for the specific dracut module.
This unifies the way of checking for binaries and makes the life of an
initramfs creator easier, if he wants to find out why a specific dracut
module is not included in the initramfs.
url-lib adds some functions for dealing with URLs (mostly for fetching
files, for the moment).
It uses curl to handle http/https/ftp URLs, but it can be extended by other
modules at runtime by using the "add_url_handler" function.
Signed-off-by: Will Woods <wwoods@redhat.com>
The livenet module allows you to use a root arg like:
root=live:http://server.name/path/to/live.img ip=dhcp
The named live image will be downloaded with wget and then set up as the
root device.
It currently supports FTP, HTTP, and HTTPS. dracut will try to install
the CA bundle (/etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt) into the initramfs so that
SSL certificate checking will work properly.
If an HTTPS URL is given and the site fails the certificate check, the
file will be rejected and the system will not boot into it.
Signed-off-by: Will Woods <wwoods@redhat.com>
Antony Messerli