Minor Fixes

* switch 3.12 back to tiny-ec2-bootstrap (tiny-cloud requires ifupdown-ng)
* restrict cloud-init to 3.15+
* pad UEFI firmware so QEMU works with aarch64 again
* kinda fix motd release_notes (more to do yet)

build

@@ -185,7 +185,10 @@ def install_qemu_firmware():
             log.error('STDERR:\n%s', err.decode('utf8'))
             sys.exit(1)
 
-        os.symlink(bin, os.path.join(firm_dir, f"uefi-{arch}.bin"))
+        firm_bin = os.path.join(firm_dir, f"uefi-{arch}.bin")
+        os.symlink(bin, firm_bin)
+        log.info('Padding "%s" to 67108864 bytes', firm_bin)
+        subprocess.run(['truncate', '-s', '67108864', firm_bin])
 
 
 ### Command Line & Logging

configs/alpine.conf

@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ Default {
       "See <https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/>."
 
     version_notes = "Release Notes:\n"\
-      "* <https://alpinelinux.org/posts/alpine-{version}.0/released.html>"
-    release_notes = "* <https://alpinelinux.org/posts/{release}/released.html"
+      "* <https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-{version}.0/released.html>"
+    release_notes = "* <https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-{release}/released.html>"
   }
 
   # initial provisioning script and data directory

configs/bootstrap/cloudinit.conf

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 # vim: ts=2 et:
 name = [cloudinit]
 
+# start cloudinit images with 3.15
+EXCLUDE = ["3.12", "3.13", "3.14"]
+
 packages {
   cloud-init          = true
   openssh-server-pam  = true

configs/bootstrap/tiny.conf

@@ -1,17 +1,31 @@
 # vim: ts=2 et:
 name = [tiny]
 
-WHEN {
-  aws.packages.tiny-cloud-aws = true
-  # azure.packages.tiny-cloud-azure = true
-  # gcp.packages.tiny-cloud-gcp = true
-  # oci.packages.tiny-cloud-oci = true
-}
-
 services {
   sysinit.tiny-cloud-early = true
   default.tiny-cloud       = true
   default.tiny-cloud-final = true
 }
 
+WHEN {
+  aws {
+    packages.tiny-cloud-aws = true
+    WHEN {
+      "3.12" {
+          # tiny-cloud-network requires ifupdown-ng (unavailable in 3.12)
+          packages.tiny-cloud-aws             = null
+          services.sysinit.tiny-cloud-early   = null
+          services.default.tiny-cloud         = null
+          services.default.tiny-cloud-final   = null
+          # fall back to tiny-ec2-bootstrap instead
+          packages.tiny-ec2-bootstrap         = true
+          services.default.tiny-ec2-bootstrap = true
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  # azure.packages.tiny-cloud-azure = true
+  # gcp.packages.tiny-cloud-gcp = true
+  # oci.packages.tiny-cloud-oci = true
+}
+
 scripts     = [ setup-tiny ]

scripts/setup-tiny

@@ -9,7 +9,13 @@ einfo() {
     printf '\n\033[1;7;36m> %s <\033[0m\n' "$@" >&2     # bold reversed cyan
 }
 
-einfo "Configuring Tiny Cloud..."
-sed -i.bak -Ee "s/^#?CLOUD_USER=.*/CLOUD_USER=$IMAGE_LOGIN/" \
-    "$TARGET"/etc/conf.d/tiny-cloud
-rm "$TARGET"/etc/conf.d/tiny-cloud.bak
+if [ "$VERSION" = "3.12" ]; then
+    # tiny-cloud-network requires ifupdown-ng, not in 3.12
+    einfo "Configuring Tiny EC2 Bootstrap..."
+    echo "EC2_USER=$IMAGE_LOGIN" > /etc/conf.d/tiny-ec2-bootstrap
+else
+    einfo "Configuring Tiny Cloud..."
+    sed -i.bak -Ee "s/^#?CLOUD_USER=.*/CLOUD_USER=$IMAGE_LOGIN/" \
+        "$TARGET"/etc/conf.d/tiny-cloud
+    rm "$TARGET"/etc/conf.d/tiny-cloud.bak
+fi