ELBE 12.0 (2019-10-02)

ELBE 12.0 is released. The XML format is compatible.

Debian packages for “ELBE 12.0” are available from linutronix. Add sth. like this to your sources.list:

deb http://debian.linutronix.de/elbe buster main

Versioning Schema

The last ELBE versions had a lot of minor bug fixes. As result, the version numbers increased very fast. Therefore we switch to a version schema with major and minor numbers.

New Logging

The logging and error handling code is completely new. The logging output is improved and a build failure now results in error return codes, and no files will be downloaded. This is especially the case for finetuning errors which have been ignored before.

INITVM Version Buster

The initvm is now using Debian 10 (Buster)

Limit src-cdrom size

The src-cdrom can be split up in multiple cd-roms. This can be configured in the xml file.

Example:

<src-cdrom>
    <size>640M</size>
    <src-opts>
        <publisher>Linutronix</publisher>
    </src-opts>
</src-cdrom>

Customize src-cdrom

It is possible to add custom specific files to the src-cdrom. This can be done with ‘archivedir’ tags in the ‘src-cdrom’ section.

Repository Key in xml file

The key of a repository is now stored in the ELBE xml file using the tag ‘raw-key’. The old key tags are replaced by the preprocessor now.

An example of the usage of ‘raw-key’, can be found at: examples/includes/devel/mirrors.xml