On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:24:09AM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote: >On Wednesday 22 July 2015 00:13:43 Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> The build is done insida a VM hosted on our CD / live image production >> machine (pettersson.debian.org) - that's where the openstack images >> are made. It's not easy to give out access to that VM, but it's easy >> enough to add extra steps to the image production code that runs >> there. There's a slight snag, though - the signing process is outside >> of the VM so we'd probably have to generate the index file then >> post-process it to add the signature. > >Sounds OK for me -- we can create the snippet of index for each image >generated during that process, and later when publishing the image >aggregate all the index snippets into a single index file. >Could you please point me to the build scripts, so I can start taking >a look at them?
Sure. My wrapper code is in http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-cd/pettersson-live.git/ There's not much magic there - look at available/run-30openstack-build, which calls build-openstack-debian-image for the heavy lifting. >Regarding signing: let's start generating the index for the images as >first step, so we have the process running, and later get the signing >done. Sure. >> >Also, a different chapter would be having proper non-cloud qcow2 >> >images available (always with virt-builder metadata, of course). >> >This, other than allowing us to avoid maintaining Debian images, would >> >mean virt-builder users can get official images of stable released, >> >updated periodically. >> >Would that be something useful? If so, how/where/etc could this process >> >get started? >> >> Sure, we can do that too - we have scope for producing all sorts of >> images. It's something that there's going to be discussion about at >> DebConf next month, in fact! > >Cool! >If it could be helpful, we use d-i based scripts for generate the >templates we host on libguestfs.org: you can see at [1] debian.sh and >debian.preseed for the actual image building, and compress.sh for the >cleaning up and compression. They should be runnable as normal user, >so there could be even no need for additional VM for building them. > >[1] https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/tree/master/builder/website Cool, that looks useful. We're using the VM explicitly to allow for some root access, so it would be nice to play with alternatives. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the cable, one on the far end, and the goat, terminated over the SCSI chain with a silver-handled knife whilst burning *black* candles. --- Anthony DeBoer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
