[Vmdebootstrap-devel] vmdebootstrap sprint report

[Iain R. Learmonth]

Hi,

This is now a little overdue, but here it is. On the 10th and 11th of
November, the second vmdebootstrap sprint took place. Lars Wirzenius (liw),
Ana Custura (ana_c) and myself were present. liw focussed on the core of
vmdebootstrap, where he sketched out what the future of vmdebootstrap may
look like. He documented this in a mailing list post[1] and also presented.

Ana and myself worked on live-wrapper, which uses vmdebootstrap internally
for the squashfs generation. I worked on improving logging, using a better
method for getting paths within the image, enabling generation of Packages
and Release files for the image archive and also made the images installable
(live-wrapper 0.5 onwards will include an installer by default).

Ana worked on the inclusion of HDT and memtest86+ in the live images and
enabled both ISOLINUX (for BIOS boot) and GRUB (for EFI boot) to boot the
text-mode and graphical installers.

live-wrapper 0.5 was released on the 16th November with these fixes
included. You can find live-wrapper documentation at
https://live-wrapper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/. (The documentation still
needs some work, some options may be incorrectly described).

[1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud/2016/11/msg00050.html

Thanks to the sponsors of this sprint that made this work possible. You're
awesome. (:

Thanks,
Iain.

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