On Fri, 2016-01-29 at 14:14 -0200, Tiago Ilieve wrote: > Hello fellows from Debian CD and Debian Cloud teams, > > As you may know, Oracle is interested on getting official Debian > images on their cloud platform[1]. I've been working with them on this > matter and now that we have a proper way to build those images using > bootstrap-vz (the code is not yet on upstream, but is available on my > fork[2]), we would like to do what is needed to call them "official". > Emmanuel Kasper remembered[3] us of the guidelines for official > images[4] and I talked with Steve McIntyre in private about this. > > Today, I took a few hours to read again the entire thread (and related > off-thread messages) started by Martin Zobel-Helas[5] regarding Debian > images on Azure, which brought the matter to our attention in the last > November. Right now my main concern is: we need a custom kernel > (compressed with gzip instead of xz), otherwise the instance will not > be able to boot on the current version of Oracle Compute Cloud > Service. [...]
Is this the same issue described in <https://wiki.debian.org/Xen#Error_.22unknown_compression_format.22>? That's quite sad as Xen has supported xz compression for several years now. I don't think this is sufficient reason to change compression back, and we're certainly not going to do that for jessie. If OCC supports loading uncompressed kernels, perhaps you could add a support package that decompresses vmlinuz at kernel installation time? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Larkinson's Law: All laws are basically false.
