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@@ -43,7 +43,16 @@ There are several directories with their own purpose: ## Prerequisites -To build a VyOS image, you need a machine that runs Debian Jessie. Other build hosts are not supported. +To build a VyOS image, you need Debian8 "Jessie" environment (with jessie-backports repository). You can create it with [debootstrap](https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap) on Debian, Ubuntu and many distributions. To create Debian8 "Jessie" environment under vyos-chroot directory, run below commands. + +``` +$ sudo apt install debootstrap (Note: This is on Debian/Ubuntu, adjust it with 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 update +``` Several packages are required for building the ISO and all packages, namely python3, live-build, pbuilder, python3-pystache and devscripts. Individual packages may have other build dependencies. If some packages are missing, build scripts will tell you. diff --git a/tools/get_latest_iso.py b/tools/get_latest_iso.py new file mode 100755 index 00000000..4a2ea9a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/get_latest_iso.py @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env python3 + +import os +import sys +from lxml import html +from urllib.parse import unquote +import requests + +BASE_URL = 'https://downloads.vyos.io/' +PAGE_URL = BASE_URL+'?dir=rolling/current/amd64' + + +def download(): + page = requests.get(PAGE_URL) + tree = html.fromstring(page.content) + path = '//*[@id="directory-listing"]/li/a[1]/@href' + isos = [x for x in tree.xpath(path) if os.path.splitext(x)[1] == '.iso'] + latest_iso_url = os.path.join(BASE_URL, isos[-1]) + filename = unquote(os.path.basename(latest_iso_url)) + print(filename) + if os.path.exists(filename): + print("{} already exists".format(filename)) + sys.exit(0) + r = requests.get(latest_iso_url) + with open(filename, 'wb') as fd: + for chunk in r.iter_content(chunk_size=128): + fd.write(chunk) + + +if __name__ == '__main__': + download() |