Add image/hwpack information into image

[Marcin Juszkiewicz]

Binary package hint: linaro-image-tools

Would be nice to have /etc/linaro-image file with informations about which LEB and hwpack were used to create it.

Something like:
Linaro evaluation build image: linaro-natty-alip 20110527
hwpack: panda-x11-base 20110527

[Ricardo Salveti (rsalveti)]

For me having the l-m-c log available somewhere at the image should be enough already to understand the cmd-line arguments that was used and also the rootfs and hwpack files.

For a more consistent version ID we should have a file created by live-helper when creating the rootfs, describing which one was generated.

[James Westby (james-w)]

On Fri, 27 May 2011 13:28:30 -0000, Marcin Juszkiewicz <email address hidden> wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: linaro-image-tools
>
> Would be nice to have /etc/linaro-image file with informations about
> which LEB and hwpack were used to create it.

I think this is dupe, but I agree that is is desirable.

You can kind of get this info now:

> Something like:
> Linaro evaluation build image: linaro-natty-alip 20110527

cat /var/lib/ubuntu_dist_channel

(or something like that)

> hwpack: panda-x11-base 20110527

dpkg -l "hwpack*"

Thanks,

James

[Marcin Juszkiewicz (hrw)]

root@linaro:/var/lib# cat ubuntu_dist_channel
# This is a distribution channel descriptor
# For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor
canonical-oem-linaro-natty-alip-20110527-0

root@linaro:/var/lib# dpkg -l "hwpack*"|tee
ii hwpack-linaro-panda-x11-base 20110527-0 Dummy package to install a hwpack

Thanks - this is what I wanted. Now if only would be a better way to check it ;)

[Marcin Juszkiewicz (hrw)]

and we should drop 'canonical-oem' string.

[James Westby (james-w)]

On Fri, 27 May 2011 15:25:49 -0000, Marcin Juszkiewicz <email address hidden> wrote:
> root@linaro:/var/lib# cat ubuntu_dist_channel
> # This is a distribution channel descriptor
> # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor
> canonical-oem-linaro-natty-alip-20110527-0

Ah,

/etc/buildstamp is better for that info.

(canonical-oem can be changed next cycle via
config/offspring-builder.config:IBS_DISTRIBUTION_CHANNEL_DESCRIPTOR_PREFIX="offspring-${HOSTNAME}")

Thanks,

James

[Ricardo Salveti (rsalveti)]

I know it's probably a topic for other bug, but do we have the logs from l-m-c somewhere available at the image? Checking the cmd line arguments used with l-m-c can also be useful for debugging.

[Guilherme Salgado (salgado)]

I'm pretty sure we don't have lmc logs anywhere in the image. I guess
the important thing would be the logs of the hwpack installation?