General Device Building Overview [Was, Re: Looking for general device building overview]

2016-09-08 Thread Steve Langasek
pad.net/~snappy-dev/snappy-hub/snappy-systems/ And since ubuntu-image is calling 'snap prepare-image' under the hood to create your ubuntu-core root filesystem, this will also take care of all the problems with /var/lib/snapd/seed in your other mail! Hope that

Re: Console-conf and ip address

2016-09-23 Thread Steve Langasek
trickier to implement than just turning on ssh, so not done yet. (And if it doesn't already, snapweb really ought to have the same ACL IMHO) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move th

Re: Console-conf and ip address

2016-09-23 Thread Steve Langasek
r problems - changing over time due to collisions on the network, differing from interface to interface for the same reason. So I would love for us to have this, but it would take a fair bit of work to do right. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian

Re: ubuntu-image with local gadget snap

2016-09-28 Thread Steve Langasek
is is supposed to work by using an --extra-snaps argument pointing to the local file. So you declare your gadget snap by name in your model assertion per normal, then pass --extra-snaps /path/to/gadget.snap, and snap prepare-image should pick this up and DTRT. -- Steve Langasek

Re: ubuntu-image 0.7ubuntu1

2016-10-11 Thread Steve Langasek
imum size needed to accommodate the contents, warn but build the image anyway - because all the expensive work of ubuntu-image happens /before/ we're able to calculate the final size, so throwing that all away at the end would be /very annoying/. How does t

Re: ubuntu-image 0.7ubuntu1

2016-10-12 Thread Steve Langasek
tatus quo > towards something we are aiming at with underlying goals. If we are going > to rush it in, we can just pick up the tooling we had (or the hack you > mention) and put the images out. What is lacking at the moment is agreement about the underlying goal in this case, rather than a

Re: ubuntu-image 0.7ubuntu1

2016-10-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 06:04:09PM -0700, Seth Arnold wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 02:20:31PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Are you proposing to do away with this auto-expansion capability? If so, > > this implies that: > How often does this auto-expansion fail? I ha

Re: ubuntu-image 0.7ubuntu1

2016-10-14 Thread Steve Langasek
ource > on the LTS. We will also be consuming ubuntu-image internally as a .deb on top of 16.04, for image auto-builds in Launchpad. So we will want this in the archive regardless. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: ubuntu-image 0.7ubuntu1

2016-10-14 Thread Steve Langasek
rt e2fslibs to xenial  > as proper SRU ?  No. ubuntu-image does *not* require the newer e2fslibs, it's only a requirement if you want to run ubuntu-image without root privileges. For the launchpad livefs-build use case, we will use the existing 16.04 e2fslibs as root. -- Steve Langase

Re: Allowable characters in some section of gadget.yaml

2017-02-03 Thread Steve Langasek
27;s use. Is it better to future-proof ubuntu-image by making it maximally permissive on these fields? snapd parses the gadget.yaml before it ever returns it to ubuntu-image, so it's not as if ubuntu-image being strict helps us fail early. -- Steve Langasek Give me

Re: ubuntu-image 0.15

2017-02-16 Thread Steve Langasek
're building a filesystem with the exact same contents (file sizes, etc). Kyle, would it be possible for you to post your image somewhere for examination? Also, please paste the output of 'dmesg' - this is likely a kernel-level crash. -- Steve Langasek Give me