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[Thomi Richards <thomi.richards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sergio,


I tried to get hold of you on IRC today, but I guess I must have missed you.

The CI team need a way to generate a snappy image with one or more
additional debian packages applied.

Our current approach is to regenerate the rootfs tarball for the latest
image, mount it in a chroot, install the new packages, unmount it, and then
(hopefully) pass that modified rootfs tarball to u-d-f and have it generate
an image based on our modified tarball, rather than the one downloaded from
the image server.

I've had a look at the source code today for u-d-f (BTW, trunk FTBFS, as
lp:snappy/progress API seems to have made backwards-incompatible changes),
and this doesn't seem like it would be very difficult, but there's enough
alien code in there that I'm not confident enough to do it myself.

Do you think this is a plausible / sane approach?

Is this something you'd be willing to add to the u-d-f tool?

Any comments / thoughts on our approach?


Cheers,

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Thomi Richards
thomi.richards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx