* Serge Hallyn <serge.hal...@ubuntu.com> [2014-02-06 17:04]: > Quoting Peter Matulis (peter.matu...@canonical.com): > > On 12/10/2013 12:13 PM, Serge Hallyn wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Years ago it was decided that vm-builder would be deprecated in favor > > > of alternatives (cloud images, live-build, and some others). This was > > > dicussed at at least two separate physical UDSes. However, it was > > > never actually dropped from the archive. As a result people kept > > > using it despite it being considered deprecated and no longer > > > maintained. This is resulting in people losing data and time, i.e. > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vm-builder/+bug/1090223 > > > > > > I intend to open a bug to ask that it be removed from the archive > > > for trusty. If anyone objects, please reply here. > > > > What is the state of documentation for 'live-build and some others'? We > > shouldn't assume everyone has been cloudified. > > Pretty poor. I am placing my hopes more on Robie's uvtool package than > live-build. It is what I've been using for projects needing to migrate > from vmbuilder. uvtool should definately gain a server guide section.
Definitely. I'd be happy to contribute here. I've been a heavy user of uvtool since I found out about it last fall. I saw this back in December, but didn't get a chance to play with it yet. http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html > > -serge > > -- > ubuntu-server mailing list > ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server > More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
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