seperate the path for the iPXE binaries

Signed-off-by: Christian Goll <cgoll@suse.com>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - only write IPMI if write is true
 - Don't show an error if image files for containers can't be found. #933
 - Make configured paths available in overlays as `.Path` #960
+- Introduced IPXESOURCE environment variable which allows to specify the path to iPXE 
+  binaries not provided by warewulf
 
 ## [4.4.0] 2023-01-18
 

Makefile

@@ -102,7 +102,8 @@ install: build docs
 	install -d -m 0755 $(DESTDIR)$(WWDOCDIR)
 	install -d -m 0755 $(DESTDIR)$(FIREWALLDDIR)
 	install -d -m 0755 $(DESTDIR)$(SYSTEMDDIR)
-	install -d -m 0755 $(DESTDIR)$(WWDATADIR)/ipxe
+	install -d -m 0755 $(DESTDIR)$(IPXESOURCE)
+	install -d -m 0755 $(DESTDIR)$(DATADIR)/warewulf
 	test -f $(DESTDIR)$(WWCONFIGDIR)/warewulf.conf || install -m 0644 etc/warewulf.conf $(DESTDIR)$(WWCONFIGDIR)
 	test -f $(DESTDIR)$(WWCONFIGDIR)/nodes.conf || install -m 0644 etc/nodes.conf $(DESTDIR)$(WWCONFIGDIR)
 	test -f $(DESTDIR)$(WWCONFIGDIR)/wwapic.conf || install -m 0644 etc/wwapic.conf $(DESTDIR)$(WWCONFIGDIR)

Variables.mk

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 -include Defaults.mk
 
 # Linux distro (try and set to /etc/os-release ID)
-OS_REL := $(shell sed -n "s/^ID\s*=\s*['"\""]\(.*\)['"\""]/\1/p" /etc/os-release)
+OS_REL := $(shell sed -n "s/^ID\w*\s*=\s*['"\""]\(.*\)['"\""]/\1/p" /etc/os-release)
 OS ?= $(OS_REL)
 
 ARCH_REL := $(shell uname -p)
@@ -26,16 +26,18 @@ else
   RELEASE ?= 1
 endif
 
-# Use LSB-compliant paths if OS is known
-ifneq ($(OS),)
-  USE_LSB_PATHS := true
-endif
-
 # Always default to GNU autotools default paths if PREFIX has been redefined
 ifdef PREFIX
   USE_LSB_PATHS := false
 endif
 
+# Use LSB-compliant paths if OS is known
+ifneq ($(OS),)
+  USE_LSB_PATHS := true
+  PREFIX="/usr"
+  SYSCONFDIR="/etc"
+endif
+
 # System directory paths
 VARLIST += PREFIX BINDIR SYSCONFDIR SRVDIR DATADIR MANDIR DOCDIR LOCALSTATEDIR
 PREFIX ?= /usr/local
@@ -68,7 +70,7 @@ endif
 TFTPDIR ?= /var/lib/tftpboot
 
 # Warewulf directory paths
-VARLIST += WWCLIENTDIR WWCONFIGDIR WWPROVISIONDIR WWOVERLAYDIR WWCHROOTDIR WWTFTPDIR WWDOCDIR WWDATADIR
+VARLIST += WWCLIENTDIR WWCONFIGDIR WWPROVISIONDIR WWOVERLAYDIR WWCHROOTDIR WWTFTPDIR WWDOCDIR WWDATADIR IPXESOURCE
 WWCONFIGDIR := $(SYSCONFDIR)/$(WAREWULF)
 WWPROVISIONDIR := $(LOCALSTATEDIR)/$(WAREWULF)/provision
 WWOVERLAYDIR := $(LOCALSTATEDIR)/$(WAREWULF)/overlays
@@ -80,6 +82,9 @@ WWCLIENTDIR ?= /warewulf
 
 CONFIG := $(shell pwd)
 
+# Get iPXE binaries from warewulf
+IPXESOURCE ?= $(DATADIR)/$(WAREWULF)/ipxe
+
 # helper functions
 godeps=$(shell go list -mod vendor -deps -f '{{if not .Standard}}{{ $$dep := . }}{{range .GoFiles}}{{$$dep.Dir}}/{{.}} {{end}}{{end}}' $(1) | sed "s%${PWD}/%%g")
 

internal/pkg/config/buildconfig.go.in

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ type BuildConfig struct {
 	Sysconfdir     string `default:"@SYSCONFDIR@"`
 	Datadir        string `default:"@DATADIR@"`
 	Localstatedir  string `default:"@LOCALSTATEDIR@"`
+	Ipxesource     string `default:"@IPXESOURCE@"`
 	Srvdir         string `default:"@SRVDIR@"`
 	Tftpdir        string `default:"@TFTPDIR@"`
 	Firewallddir   string `default:"@FIREWALLDDIR@"`

internal/pkg/configure/tftp.go

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ func TFTP() error {
 			continue
 		}
 		copyCheck[f] = true
-		err = util.SafeCopyFile(path.Join(controller.Paths.Datadir, f), path.Join(tftpdir, path.Base(f)))
+		err = util.SafeCopyFile(path.Join(controller.Paths.Ipxesource, f), path.Join(tftpdir, path.Base(f)))
 		if err != nil {
 			wwlog.Warn("ipxe binary could not be copied, booting may not work: %s", err)
 		}