[xen-tools] Re: Multiple role scripts ..

[Steve Kemp]

On Sun Sep 23, 2007 at 20:57:48 -0700, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote:

> I was thinking we could include a tarball of a minimal os install with
> the source dist... or maybe we could tell a .t file how to download it
> so as not to bloat the dist... 

  The latter, please.

  Even a minimal os install would be 100Mb, or so.  I'd suggest
 just adding a call to install with debootstrap.

> We could keep a t/data/MANIFEST file
> of what the filesystem *should* look like after the command is run:

  Sure, that's a good plan - if it is gzipped!

> bin/xen-create-image \
>   --force \
>   --copy t/data/pristine \
>   --dir t/data/images \
>   --dhcp \
>   --hostname testhost

  --install-method=debootstrap --install-source=http://us.debian...

> We could then collect the contents of t/data/images/testhost using
> File::Find and then compare the results with t/data/MANIFEST.

  Agreed.

Steve
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