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genisoimage may be going away #3838
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Launchpad user James Falcon(falcojr) wrote on 2021-02-15T14:21:28.240801+00:00 I asked Dan Watkins about this and received this reply: In terms of scope, cloud-init does not Depend on genisoimage but does It sounds like, if it's going away, genisoimage is going away in So from a "when will the wheels fall off in Ubuntu" perspective, we (a) That said, cloud-image-utils is in main[2] and therefore all of its From an upstream cloud-init perspective, this indicates to me that we [0] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBullseye |
Launchpad user Steve Langasek(vorlon) wrote on 2021-02-15T22:18:17+00:00 On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 02:21:28PM -0000, James Falcon wrote:
We use xorriso in place of genisoimage for Ubuntu ISO generation. I'm The ubuntu-meta dependency is being dropped; the seed change has already -- |
Launchpad user Dan Watkins(oddbloke) wrote on 2021-02-16T17:57:56+00:00 On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 10:18:17PM -0000, Steve Langasek wrote:
OK, that's clearly what we should be moving to; thanks!
It's used by the CPC Vagrant build scripts to... generate a cloud-init (Who could have introduced that? innocent whistling)
OK, cool; are we looking to drop it (from main) this cycle? (i.e. Do we |
Launchpad user Steve Langasek(vorlon) wrote on 2021-02-17T21:48:45+00:00 On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 05:57:56PM -0000, Dan Watkins wrote:
Hah! ok.
There's no hurry, we just wanted people to be in the loop sooner rather than |
This bug was originally filed in Launchpad as LP: #1915077
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Launchpad user Michael Hudson-Doyle(mwhudson) wrote on 2021-02-08T21:39:44.694094+00:00
It seems that cdrkit, which is where genisoimage comes from, is dead upstream and is likely to be removed from debian: https://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud/2021/02/msg00011.html
Plenty of cloud-init docs and tutorials refer to genisoimage to create seed ISOs, it may be time to find something else.
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