Variants no longer need to specify the full contents of the
`squashfs.exclude` file. The "base" file in the source directory gets
combined with the one from the config directory (if it exists).
In effort to support different builds of Aimee OS using the same
scripts, without necessarily having to fork this repository, the build
system now supports a `CONFIGDIR` setting. When this variable is set,
files defining the target environment, such as the lists of packages to
install, the kernel configuration, the Portage configuration, etc. are
found in the path it specifes.
The reference build, for the Home Assistant Yellow board, is configured
in the `yellow` directory. To build it, run:
```sh
CONFIGDIR=yellow ./vm-build.sh
```
When running inside a QEMU microvm with the source directory shared
via 9pfs, the kernel build process fails
> Error: Could not mmap file: vmlinux
Thus, we need to run the build in a path on a local filesystem. To
support this, the Makefile now supports an `O` option, and all the build
scripts have been adjusted to make use of it as needed.
Since building in a local filesystem would ultimately discard the final
artifacts when the VM terminates, we need yet a different location for
the files we want to keep. The `IMAGESDIR` option can be used to
specify this path. This path can be on a shared filesystem, thus
saving the artifacts outside the microvm.
Dustin