UEC images could be simpler to download and bundle

[Scott Moser]

Currently kernel and ramdisk for a given UEC image is available at the download location of uec images. However, due to naming, there is no easy way to automatically download these.

For example the following are the names from the karmic beta:
  ubuntu-uec-karmic-amd64-initrd.img-2.6.31-11-server
  ubuntu-uec-karmic-amd64-vmlinuz-2.6.31-11-server
  ubuntu-uec-karmic-i386-initrd.img-2.6.31-11-generic-pae
  ubuntu-uec-karmic-i386-vmlinuz-2.6.31-11-generic-pae

Ideally there would be a way to easily pull these (for documentation purposes or scripts) that didn't require parsing the index.html.

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

This is really towards the publishing scripts, but marking package as vm-builder.

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

A couple options here are:
- symlinks
  ubuntu-uec-amd64-kernel -> ubuntu-uec-karmic-amd64-vmlinuz-2.6.31-11-server
  ubuntu-uec-i386-ramdisk -> ubuntu-uec-karmic-i386-initrd.img-2.6.31-11-generic-pae
- LATEST (or otherwise named) file containing:
   ubuntu-uec-amd64-kernel ubuntu-uec-karmic-amd64-vmlinuz-2.6.31-11-server
   ubuntu-uec-i386-ramdisk ubuntu-uec-karmic-i386-initrd.img-2.6.31-11-generic-pae

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Or a tarball of all of the pertinent pieces?

:-Dustin

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Dustin Kirkland wrote:

> Or a tarball of all of the pertinent pieces?

That would be possible, yes, but even inside the tarball, you'd want to
provide predictable names, or a mechanism to obtain the names.

All a simply-named tar file does is move the problem to the local system.
Admittedly there, you have much simpler list.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Scott Moser <email address hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
>
>> Or a tarball of all of the pertinent pieces?
>
> That would be possible, yes, but even inside the tarball, you'd want to
> provide predictable names, or a mechanism to obtain the names.

Said tarball could contain a small, finite list of:
 a) *manifest
 b) *vmlinuz*
 c) *initrd*
 d) *.img

That's predictable enough for my scripts.

:-Dustin