Hi all, On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Sergio Schvezov < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 06:09:01PM +1200, Thomi Richards wrote: > > Hi Sergio, > > > > > > I tried to get hold of you on IRC today, but I guess I must have missed > you. > > It's because I am off this week ;-) > > > The CI team need a way to generate a snappy image with one or more > > additional debian packages applied. > > > > Our current approach is to regenerate the rootfs tarball for the latest > > image, mount it in a chroot, install the new packages, unmount it, and > then > > (hopefully) pass that modified rootfs tarball to u-d-f and have it > generate > > an image based on our modified tarball, rather than the one downloaded > from > > the image server. > > > > I've had a look at the source code today for u-d-f (BTW, trunk FTBFS, as > > lp:snappy/progress API seems to have made backwards-incompatible > changes), > > and this doesn't seem like it would be very difficult, but there's enough > > alien code in there that I'm not confident enough to do it myself. > > Will fix when I get back (the new incarnation of u-d-f is moving into > snappy itself fwiw). > > > Do you think this is a plausible / sane approach? > > It would of been before the plan to move the rootfs to a snappy package. > > Even though we use debs to build the image today, we might not in the > future. > > Do you need debs btw? Isn't it possible to solve your problems by creating > a snappy framework package? > I like this conversation already. :) > > Is this something you'd be willing to add to the u-d-f tool? > Not anymore, support for system image is going away. It can be added, > but would be short lived, so I guess it depends on the immediate gains > this option will provide. > There is a discussion going on about the right approach to solve this (and other related) problems [1]. We could use the opportunity now to implement this in the right place, maybe u-d-f isn't really that. Cheers! [1] https://trello.com/c/lW9B14E4/4-ci-flash-an-image-with-a-custom-rootfs > > > Any comments / thoughts on our approach? > > When the OS is delivered as a snapppy package we can add an interface to > replace it. > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-ci-engineering > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~canonical-ci-engineering > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Úrsula Junque Ubuntu CI Engineer [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Ubuntu - "I am what I am because of who we all are." Linux user #289453 - Ubuntu user #31144
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