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livecd-rootfs package

  1. Bug #1730642
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1730642

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 1730642] Re: Support generating a rootfs tree only

On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 10:09:42AM -0000, Łukasz Zemczak wrote:
> In my opinion it is not required for us to wait on that as this change
> is not needed for ubuntu-image classic build support to work. Without
> the support for invoking ubuntu-image for builds in livecd-rootfs users
> can still invoke ubuntu-image directly to get a working classic image
> generated. This way we can release ubuntu-image, get more global testing
> from users and only then switch certain projects in livecd-rootfs to use
> ubuntu-image instead of the regular mechanisms.

My point is that "switching projects in livecd-rootfs" involves additional
development work that has not yet been done; you can't just invoke
ubuntu-image for a classic image build yet because you need to set up the
gadget tree, which there is no code yet to facilitate.