Re: Comments on live-build, vmdebootstrap, bootstrap-vz, and live-wrapper

2016-08-23 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Ian" == Ian Campbell writes: Ian> On Tue, 2016-08-23 at 18:40 +1000, Adam Bolte wrote: >>   I'm not sure if it would be possible to use pygrub if your >> assigned volume is partitioned, which may be a problem if you >> don't control the Dom0. Ian> pygrub has supported

Re: Comments on live-build, vmdebootstrap, bootstrap-vz, and live-wrapper

2016-08-23 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Neil" == Neil Williams writes: Neil> That's the key point for me - grub sorts itself out *inside* Neil> the build environment. It is critical for reproducibility that Neil> the tools used to build the image come from inside the Neil> image. We need to be able to build the s

Re: Comments on live-build, vmdebootstrap, bootstrap-vz, and live-wrapper

2016-08-23 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2016-08-23 at 18:40 +1000, Adam Bolte wrote: >  > I'm not sure if it would be possible to use pygrub if your assigned > volume is partitioned, which may be a problem if you don't control > the Dom0. pygrub has supported devices with partition tables for many years (like at least a decade).

Re: Comments on live-build, vmdebootstrap, bootstrap-vz, and live-wrapper

2016-08-23 Thread Adam Bolte
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 08:31:28AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 09:02:30 + > Riku Voipio wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 11:56:12AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > > > We'd probably have to give up some of the tweaks we have, and add > > > support either for plugins for som

Re: Comments on live-build, vmdebootstrap, bootstrap-vz, and live-wrapper

2016-08-23 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 09:02:30 + Riku Voipio wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 11:56:12AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > > Hi. > > > I recently finished putting together a custom image of what amounts > > to stretch for work. Today, this is mostly not a cloud image, > > although that's expecte