While my opinion probably doesn't mean much, I think we should be keeping memtest everywhere it is able to be used. We really need to update it to 5.01 for trusty though
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:01 AM, Colin Watson <cjwat...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:39:44AM -0500, Scott Moser wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:35:40AM -0500, Scott Moser wrote: > > > > On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > > I think it's helpful for user-facing documentation for it to be > > > > > consistently installed by default, especially since a system with > memory > > > > > integrity problems may have trouble installing packages; but I'd be > > > > > happy for it to be moved out to desktop-common + server so that it > > > > > > > > well, cloud-image includes ubuntu-server, so I don't really want it > there > > > > either. > > > > > > It does? That's not reflected in its seed. > > > > I believe you told me not to do that. > > http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2013/09/19/%23ubuntu-devel.html#t13:54 > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1224504 > > > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu-seeds/ubuntu.saucy/revision/2164 > > Well, not quite. Here's the relevant bit of what I said in that IRC > log: > > <cjwatson> smoser: That said, cloud-image looks substantively duplicated > from server > <cjwatson> smoser: So it does look as though that STRUCTURE change might > be a mistake > <cjwatson> smoser: Either that, or there's a load of stuff in > cloud-image that should now be deleted because it's already in server > <cjwatson> smoser: Either way, you should indeed make the image build > process line up with the seed structure > <cjwatson> smoser: And consider the future question of whether you might > ever want something in the default server install but *not* in cloud images > > So what I told you was that you need to either: > > * have cloud-image inherit from server in STRUCTURE and not duplicate > most of its contents > > *or*: > > * have cloud-image not inherit from server in STRUCTURE and duplicate > most of its contents > > but not somewhere in between. You picked the latter option, which is > fine by me. > > I think memtest86+ is a great example of something that we might want in > the default server install but not in cloud images; so my favoured > option here would be simply to move memtest86+ to the desktop-common and > server seeds, which I believe will cause it to vanish from the cloud > images as things are currently configured. > > And, after all, there are already other examples of packages that are in > server and that make sense there, but that wouldn't make sense in cloud > images: for example, ethtool. > > -- > Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] > > -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel >
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