Hi Iain, > I love the idea of using "virtual-appliance" as a marker for vas. > > I have a couple of questions about the seed files: > > * How would I launch multiple vas that use the different seed files?
I'm not sure if I got your question right. You just install a new VM with karmic in VirtualBox for example. You then add a package repository with appliance packages to your /etc/apt/sources.list and install the Debian package of your VA (e.g. mysql-dev-appliance). But you don't use apt-get or aptitude as you would do with normal packages. Instead you use the command sudo vainstall mysql-dev-package This fetches the seedfile for mysql-dev-package, seeds the debconf database with the user selections from the seedfile. AFTERWARD it calls apt-get to install the package and its dependencies. The seedfile allows us to reuse packages straight from the repositories and get control of all the user questions they might ask and overwrite them when necessary. Of course it would be quite easy change vmbuilder so that it allows the selection of a VA package when you say something like: vmbuilder vbox ubuntu --appliance=mediawiki-appliance This would create a mediawiki appliance if there was a package mediawiki-appliance and vmbuilder supported creating appliances with this approach. Since there aren't any repositories with appliance packages right can only create a local repository, build the two appliance packages from my branch, put them into the repo, and put the seedfiles in the same directory. > * How do I provide my own seed files to override the upstream files? Thanks for the idea. I should just add a new option --seedfile or something like that to vainstall so that you can specify your own seedfile vainstall should use instead of the official version that is delivered with the package. Best regards, Andreas _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~vmbuilder Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~vmbuilder More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
