Comment 8 for bug 1680574

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 1680574] Re: ubuntu-image needs to provide a manifest for the contents of an image

On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 01:40:10PM -0000, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Apr 07, 2017, at 12:37 AM, Steve Langasek wrote:

> >That would suffice. It might be nice to do some basic transformations here,
> >to make the manifest tabular - à la

> Is this file primarily for human or machine consumption?

Human. It would e.g. be published alongside images on cdimage.ubuntu.com,
so we can easily inspect contents of a given image.

On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 09:57:16PM -0000, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> How about something to this effect?

> $ ubuntu-image -O /tmp/out pc-amd64-model.assertion
> $ ls /tmp/out
> pc.img seed.manifest snaps.manifest
> $ cat /tmp/out/seed.manifest
> core 1640
> pc 19
> pc-kernel 60
> $ cat /tmp/out/snaps.manifest
> core 1640
> pc-kernel 60

That seems pretty reasonable to me.