Re: vmdebootstrap sprint report

2015-11-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 08:53:11AM -0200, Tiago Ilieve wrote: >Vincent, > >> There has been some efforts around bootstrap-vz for cloud images inside >> the Debian Cloud team. Zigo also has its own tool to publish "blessed" >> Openstack images (but they work fine for other clouds too). As far as I >

Re: vmdebootstrap sprint report

2015-11-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: > I'd really appreciate fewer [image build tools] rather than more tools. This has been a topic of discussion since at least 2009 and probably earlier. Since then the problem has gotten worse, not better. Of course, it didn't help that the live-

Re: vmdebootstrap sprint report

2015-11-10 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Norbert" == Norbert Preining writes: >> only. It's scary to think that its intention is to also replace a >> tool like bootstrap-vz that has been used for years, is currently >> maintained and is pretty stable. Specially when not even >> mentioning this to the Debian Cloud

Re: vmdebootstrap sprint report

2015-11-10 Thread Norbert Preining
> only. It's scary to think that its intention is to also replace a tool like > bootstrap-vz that has been used for years, is currently maintained and is > pretty stable. Specially when not even mentioning this to the Debian Cloud > Team. Read up on recent - let's say - slightly surprising and unc

Re: vmdebootstrap sprint report

2015-11-10 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 08:53:11AM -0200, Tiago Ilieve wrote: > Vincent, > > > There has been some efforts around bootstrap-vz for cloud images inside > > the Debian Cloud team. Zigo also has its own tool to publish "blessed" > > Openstack images (but they work fine for other clouds too). As far a

Re: vmdebootstrap sprint report

2015-11-10 Thread Tiago Ilieve
Vincent, > There has been some efforts around bootstrap-vz for cloud images inside > the Debian Cloud team. Zigo also has its own tool to publish "blessed" > Openstack images (but they work fine for other clouds too). As far as I > know, this plan to also provide official Debian VM images was not

Re: vmdebootstrap sprint report

2015-11-09 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 9 novembre 2015 21:16 GMT, Neil Williams  : > That remains to be seen. The objective was to replace live-build in the > preparation of official Debian live images as well as provide official > Debian VM images (without using live-build). It is also only live-build > which is being replaced, li

Re: vmdebootstrap sprint report

2015-11-09 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 09 Nov 2015 13:58:31 -0500 Sam Hartman wrote: > Long term, how does this project relate to live-build. The vmdebootstrap project is aimed at building a small, contained, tool which does one thing well. The output of vmdebootstrap can be used as a better replacement for live-build and he

Re: vmdebootstrap sprint report

2015-11-09 Thread Sam Hartman
Long term, how does this project relate to live-build. Is live-build going away, or are there different use cases where you'd want to use one vs the other? --Sam

vmdebootstrap sprint report

2015-11-07 Thread Neil Williams
Date: Thursday 5th to Friday 6th November 2015 Venue: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/gb/2015/MiniDebConfCambridge Participants: Neil Williams, Iain Learmonth, Lars Wirzenius The main body of the report is also here: http://linux.codehelp.co.uk/?p=247 Summary: The sprint was exceptionally su