Why I did it
Support to use symbol links in platform folder to reduce the image size.
The current solution is to copy each lazy installation targets (xxx.deb files) to each of the folders in the platform folder. The size will keep growing when more and more packages added in the platform folder. For cisco-8000 as an example, the size will be up to 2G, while most of them are duplicate packages in the platform folder.
How I did it
Create a new folder in platform/common, all the deb packages are copied to the folder, any other folders where use the packages are the symbol links to the common folder.
Why platform.tar?
We have implemented a patch for it, see #10775, but the problem is the the onie use really old unzip version, cannot support the symbol links.
The current solution is similar to the PR 10775, but make the platform folder into a tar package, which can be supported by onie. During the installation, the package.tar will be extracted to the original folder and removed.
If it is run during image install, it's not guaranteed that the
installation environment will have tune2fs available. Therefore, run it
during initramfs instead.
Signed-off-by: Saikrishna Arcot <sarcot@microsoft.com>
Reduce the disk space taken up during bootup and runtime.
1. Remove python package cache from the base image and from the containers.
2. During bootup, if logs are to be stored in memory, then don't create the `var-log.ext4` file just to delete it later during bootup.
3. For the partition containing `/host`, don't reserve any blocks for just the root user. This just makes sure all disk space is available for all users, if needed during upgrades (for example).
* Remove pip2 and pip3 caches from some containers
Only containers which appeared to have a significant pip cache size are
included here.
Signed-off-by: Saikrishna Arcot <sarcot@microsoft.com>
* Don't create var-log.ext4 if we're storing logs in memory
Signed-off-by: Saikrishna Arcot <sarcot@microsoft.com>
* Run tune2fs on the device containing /host to not reserve any blocks for just the root user
Signed-off-by: Saikrishna Arcot <sarcot@microsoft.com>
(cherry picked from commit 5617b1ae3e)
This improvement reads current SONiC version directly from `/proc/cmdline`.
it supports `grub/aboot/uboot` bootloaders.
**Code snippet**:
```bash
cat /proc/cmdline | sed -n 's/^.*loop=\/*image-\(\S\+\)\/.*$/\1/p'
```
**Description**:
```
-n don't print lines
s substitute
^.* matches anything before the <image_version>
loop= matches <loop> kernel parameter
\/*image- matches <image_version> prefix
\(\S\+\) matches <image_version> group and assigns it to \1
\/.*$ matches anything after the <image_version>
\1 replace everything with <image_version>
p print it
```
closes#6267
#### Why I did it
* To fix#6267
#### How I did it
* Fixed installer scripts
#### How to verify it
1. Write invalid SONiC version to sonic_version.yml
2. Run SONiC-To-SONiC update
ARM Architecture support in SONIC
make configure platform=[ASIC_VENDOR_ARCH] PLATFORM_ARCH=[ARM_ARCH]
SONIC_ARCH: default amd64
armhf - arm32bit
arm64 - arm64bit
Signed-off-by: Antony Rheneus <arheneus@marvell.com>
