[Openstack-devel] cloud-initramfs-tools growroot bug in Debian

[Scott Moser]

On Fri, 24 May 2013, Scott Moser wrote:

> On Fri, 24 May 2013, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>
> > p.s: any news from the live-build thing we discussed
> > earlier? Because you didn't answer, I just built a
> > small script instead of using live-build, but I
> > really wish we could unify our efforts, merge your
> > work into live-build 4.x, etc.
>
> I thought I had replied, sorry.
> Our build system works, and is very low maintenance.  The only significant
> effort we had over the past 4 years was in moving from vm-builder to
> live-build.
>
> If I had to put any amount of effort into our image build system, to me
> the right way seems to be to move it to use oz
> (https://github.com/clalancette/oz/wiki).  Any "image build" is really
> "operating system install".  Oz builds images by controlling OS install
> rather than writing and maintaining "another installer".

Sorry if this sounded rude.  Its not that we're dis-interested in getting
changes into live-build, or in collaborating on making something.   Its
just that we don't have a lot of resources to devote to it.

Scott