VyOS toplevel build =================== # Important! This repository is for building the VyOS version 1.2.0 and above. For VyOS 1.1.x, use the build-iso repository. # What is VyOS VyOS is an open source operating system for network devices (routers, firewalls and so on). If you want to use it in your network, check out download and installation instructions at https://vyos.io If you want to modify VyOS and/or join its development, read on. VyOS is not new. It is a fork of Vyatta Core that was created when the open source version of it was discontinued. If you are a Vyatta Core user, you can upgrade your installation to VyOS. # What is this repository? VyOS is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian. Just like any other distribution, it consists of multiple packages. Some packages are taken from the upstream, while other are modified or written from scratch by VyOS developers. Every package maintained by the VyOS team has its own git repository. VyOS image build is therefore a multi-step process. Packages are compiled first, then an ISO is built from Debian packages and our own packages. This is the top level repository that contains links to repositories with VyOS-specific packages (organized as git submodules) and scripts and data that are used for building those packages and the installation image. # Structure of this repository There are several directories with their own purpose: build/ Used for temporary files used for the build and for build artifacts scripts/ Contains scripts that are used for the build process data/ Contains data required for buildng the ISO (such as boot splash) tools/ Contains scripts that are used for maintainer's tasks automation and other purposes, but not in ISO build process # Building VyOS installation images ## Prerequisites To build a VyOS image, you need Debian 8 "Jessie" environment (with jessie-backports repository). You can create it with [debootstrap](https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap) on Debian, Ubuntu and many other distributions. To create a Debian 8 "Jessie" environment under vyos-chroot directory, run these commands: ``` $ sudo apt-get install debootstrap # (Note: This is on Debian/Ubuntu, adjust it for your favorite distro package manager) $ sudo debootstrap jessie vyos-chroot $ sudo chroot vyos-chroot # echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list # apt-get update ``` Several packages are required for building the ISO: python3, live-build, pbuilder, python3-pystache. The ./configure script will warn you if any dependencies are missing. Individual packages may have other build dependencies. If some dependencies are missing, package build scripts will tell you. ## Building the ISO image inside a docker container Using Dockerfile you can create your own docker container that can be used to build a VyOS ISO image. The Dockerfile contains some of the most used packages needed for a VyOS build ISO process. ``` squashfs-tools # Required for squashfs file system git # Required, for cloning the source autoconf # Required, for generating build scripts dpkg-dev # Required, used in build scripts live-helper # Required, for ISO build syslinux # Required, for ISO build genisoimage # Required, for ISO build make # Required, for ISO build lsb-release # Required, used by configure script fakechroot # Required, for ISO build devscripts # Optional, for building submodules (kernel etc) kernel-package # Optional, for building the kernel libtool # Optional, for building certain packages (eg vyatta-op-vpn) libglib2.0-dev # Optional, for building vyatta-cfg libboost-filesystem-dev # Optional, for building vyatta-cfg libapt-pkg-dev # Optional, for building vyatta-cfg flex # Optional, for building vyatta-cfg bison # Optional, for building vyatta-cfg libperl-dev # Optional, for building vyatta-cfg libnfnetlink-dev # Optional, for building vyatta-cfg-vpn vim # Optional, vim, vi, nano or other text editor ``` To build the docker image: ``` docker build -t vyos-builder $PATH_TO_Dockerfile ``` To run the docker image: ``` docker run --privileged -v /HOST_PATH/images:/vyos --name=vyos_node_builder -d vyos-builder bash ``` * docker container must be run with --privileged flag * is recommended to run the container with a volume mapped in order to easy export built VyOS ISO images to the "external" world To connect to the docker image once is running: ``` docker exec -it vyos_node_builder bash ``` After the docker container is running you can git clone the vyos-build repository inside the container and follow up the bellow instructions in order to build the VyOS ISO image ## Building the ISO image Before you can build an image, you need to configure your build. To build an image, use the following commands: ``` ./configure make iso ``` The ./configure script has a number of options that you can see by calling it with --help ## Building the images for virtualization platforms * QEMU Run following command after building the ISO image. ``` make qemu ``` * VMware Run following command after building the QEMU image. ``` make vmware ``` # Development process ## git branches The default branch that contains the most recent VyOS code is called 'current' rather than 'master'. We know if'ts confusing, but it's not easy to fix. In a nutshell, the code we inherited from Vyatta Core had its master branch so out of sync with everything it was beyong any repair. Vyatta developers used to create a new branch not when a release is ready for code freeze, but rather before starting to work on a new release. This is hard to change in existing code, so this is just the way it is, for now. All new code goes to the 'current' branch. When it's time for a code freeze, a new branch is created for the release, and new code from 'current' is backported to the release branch as needed. In packages that originate from VyOS the master branch is kept in sync with "current", but we still use "current" as default branch for uniformity. When the last legacy package is gone, we will switch to using the master branch and retire "current". For branch naming we use chemical elements (hydrogen, helium, ...).