On 03/29/2016 02:54 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: > Hi folks > > As already known, Steve, Martin and me talked about how we could build > Azure and all the other images on Debian infrastructure. The results of > this meeting were posted by Martin and Steve already. > > We didn't talk much about the technical stuff, as overall policy was the > priority. I want to start this part here. > > My requirements for building the images would be: > - one set of tools used for all images > - result includes not only images, but also tars > - images are built only using the tar as input > - optional utilize current Linux features like user namespaces
I don't get your thing about tar. Can you explain why we should use tar? On 03/29/2016 04:27 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > See Riku's talk at DebConf Heidelberg - there are many tools and > it would be generally better for customized tools to give way to > generalist tools which can use wrappers or enhancements to provide the > remaining functionality. I don't agree. Better for what? Specialized tools do what they do well. Generalist tools are over-engineered. To the contrary, openstack-debian-images is composed of a unique, very small shell script, easy to hack. Every author of the same purpose scripts trying to take over openstack-debian-images every 2nd week. Please don't. And by the way, if we were to use a generalist tools, I'd certainly vote for diskimage-builder, which really, does a lot (really a lot) and is really modular. If there's one tool to work on so it becomes *the* generalist solution, then it's that one. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
