[xen-tools-dev] Ubuntu, debootstrap, and -updates / -security repositories

[Nathan O'Sullivan]

Ubuntu's lucid release (10.04) has had its point release taking it to 
10.04.1. Ubuntu choose to distribute this within a second repository 
tree (as lucid-updates) rather than within the base "lucid" suite.

They also choose to distribute security updates through another tree (as 
lucid-security) rather than within the base "lucid" suite.

The relevant hook script ( 
http://gitorious.org/xen-tools/xen-tools/blobs/master/hooks/karmic/20-setup-apt 
) knows about this, and inserts the -updates and -security entries into 
/etc/apt/sources.list before calling "apt-get update"

Debootstrap on the other hand, does not seem to know about/support this 
(?), with the end result being that upon booting into a Lucid domU, 
you're immediately told that there's 30-40 packages that should be 
upgraded. Potential options:

1. Do nothing. I do not see this as being particularly desirable - why 
should a new domU be forced to manually update?
2. File a bug against debootstrap, if we consider it a bug (?)
3. Revise 20-setup-apt so that the -updates and -security entries are 
commented out by default; this would at least make the domU appear fully 
up to date in terms of its initial deployment.
4. Revise 20-setup-apt so that it runs "apt-get upgrade" after "apt-get 
update".

Thoughts?

Regards
Nathan
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