When remotely installing a plugin, constraints are used by Packer to
determine which version of a plugin to install.
These constraints can be arbitrarily complex, including operators and
ranges in which to look for valid versions.
However, the versions specified in those constraints should always be
final releases, and not a pre-release since we don't explicitly support
remotely installing pre-releases.
This commit therefore addds checks to make sure these are reported ASAP,
even before the source is contacted to list releases and picking one to
install.
The global `PACKER_CONFIG` config file was already deprecated from
Packer core, but now with 1.11.0 since we remove support for
mono-component plugins, we are also removing the capability for that
config file to declare them.
Instead of silently not using those, Packer will now error with a
message pointing to the web docs on how to manage their plugins with the
updated workflows for Packer 1.11 and above.
Compared to Terraform, Packer was lacking a capability to encode/decode
strings to/from base64-encoded text encoded with another encoding.
This could be problematic in some cases, mainly when working with
Windows, as most of the OS uses UTF-16LE as its standard encoding for
many operations.
Therefore, we take a page from Terraform here, and add those functions
to what Packer supports in an HCL2 context.
When a server returns a code that is not 200, we error in the current
state.
This is not conformant to the HTTP norm, as anything in the 2xx range is
considered a success, so the datasource should not error in this case.
Therefore, this commit fixes the condition in which we report an error,
so that anything in the 2xx range is now considered a success by the
datasource.
When updating the docs in prevision for Packer 1.11.0, we changed the
templates that show how plugins are installed/discovered with commands
like packer init.
While doing so, a template had its component renamed to coolcloud, but
the following prose did not change, making the text inconsistent.
Since there are other mentions of myawesomecloud in the codebase, we
choose to settle on this one for that example too.
When Discovering plugins installed through the `Discover` function, we
use the base name of the plugin binary we discovered preliminarly, then
we match its name against a regex to extract the prefix for the plugin's
components.
Extracting the base path used to be done with `path.Base`, which while
working perfectly on UNIX systems, does not on Windows as it uses `\\`
as their path separator.
To circumvent this problem, we use the `filepath` package to extract the
base name of the plugin instead, making the discovery logic work again
on Windows.
Listing installed plugins on Windows requires the extension to be set in
the ListOptions, otherwise they are not discovered.
While working on the discovery code, and consolidating it in a single
location, we've forgotten to pass the argument to ListInstallations, so
that makes it impossible to automatically discover installed components
on Windows.
This commit fixes this issue for the plugins required, and the general
discovery process during build/validate.
If a plugin is installed in the PACKER_PLUGIN_PATH, and its version
contains metadata, we reject it. This is because metadata is free-form
data, which could then make it possible to have multiple conflicting
versions of a plugin installed, so we don't support it and explicitely
reject plugins like those.
A valid plugin with metadata in its version information should be
installed without its metadata part, so there can only be one variant of
the plugin installed at a specific version.
Steven Kalt
hc-github-team-packer
Lucas Bajolet
Wilken Rivera
Lucas Bajolet
dependabot[bot]
Estelle PoulinandWilken Rivera