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 >> know, this plan to also provide official Debian VM images was not >> discussed with those parties. >> >> It's a bit a pity to see the existing efforts just discarded. > >I *really* hope that there is some kind of misunderstanding here. Since the >first time I heard about vmdebootstrap, on Steve McIntyre's report about Debian >CD BoF at DebConf15[1], I thought that it was a tool related to Live Images >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.
vmdebootstrap is a generic tool which *can* be used as a base for all sorts of live-type images. To the best of my knowledge, there's no grand plan by anyone to force this (or *any* tool) on anybody. However, as Riku pointed out at DC15 we have *many* different image generation tools in use in and around Debian and it might be nice to share some efforts and tools where it makes sense in future. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." -- James D. Nicoll
