src/ansible_gentooimgr/

src/ansible_gentooimgr/README.md

@@ -1,10 +1,18 @@
 GentooImgr: Gentoo Image Builder for Cloud and Turnkey ISO installers
 =====================================================================
 
-** This is a modified version of https://github.com/NucleaPeon/gentooimgr/
+**This is a modified version of https://github.com/NucleaPeon/gentooimgr/
 where we've modified the code a little to do use Python logging. We can
-still use it for the build stage, but we think the install stahe is better
+still use it for the build stage, but we think the install stage is better
-done using ansible, hence the libvirt_cloud playbook.**
+done using ansible, hence the libvirt_cloud playbook.
+
+The code is in overlay/Linux/usr/local/src/ansible_gentooimgr
+for reasons to do with how the ansible role transfers files.
+The code is being supported as an ansible module using
+library/ansible_gentooimgr.py which is a work in progress; the idea
+is to use it for the build and status actions, but handle the install
+tasks using ansible.
+**
 
 
 GentooImgr is a python script system to build cloud images based on Gentoo Linux.

src/ansible_gentooimgr/library/ansible_gentooimgr.py

@@ -10,11 +10,18 @@ from argparse import Namespace
 import pathlib
 import traceback
 
-sys.path.append('/mnt/o/var/local/src/play_tox/src/ansible_gentooimgr')
 # in the library
-if os.environ.get('TESTF_ANSIBLE_SRC',''):
+if os.environ.get('PLAY_ANSIBLE_SRC',''):
     # running from source
-    mod_path = os.environ.get('TESTF_ANSIBLE_SRC','')
+    mod_path = os.environ.get('PLAY_ANSIBLE_SRC','')
+    mod_path = os.path.join(mod_path, 'src', 'ansible_gentooimgr')
+    assert os.path.isdir(mod_path), f"parent {mod_path}"
+    assert os.path.isfile(os.path.join(mod_path, '__init__.py')),f"index {mod_path}"
+    assert os.path.isdir(os.path.join(mod_path, 'gentooimgr')), f"sub {mod_path}"
+    sys.path.append(mod_path)
+else:
+    # in the library
+    mod_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath('__file__'))
     mod_path = os.path.join(mod_path, 'src', 'ansible_gentooimgr')
     assert os.path.isdir(mod_path), f"parent {mod_path}"
     assert os.path.isfile(os.path.join(mod_path, '__init__.py')),f"index {mod_path}"
@@ -23,7 +30,7 @@ if os.environ.get('TESTF_ANSIBLE_SRC',''):
 try:
     import gentooimgr
 except Exception as e:
-    sys.stderr.write(f"{e} {sys.path} {traceback.print_exc()}")
+    sys.stderr.write(f"{mod_path} {sys.path} {traceback.print_exc()}")
     raise
 import ansible