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vm-builder package

  1. Bug #439868
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 439868

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote : Re: [Bug 439868] Re: UEC images could be smaller

On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Thierry Carrez wrote:

> The official branch is at lp:uec-tools
> https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/uec-tools/ubuntu
>
> Can it handle the new default .img.tar.gz format ? At first look it
> seems it handles only .img or .img.gz...

I can make it do that, but personally I even felt like gunzip support was
somewhat over-featured. Do you think it needs to support .img.tar.gz ?

right now, the image file is distributed in 2 ways:
- inside a multi-file archive base.tar.gz:
  <base>.img
  <base>-kernel-flavor
  <base>-initrd-flavor
- inside a single-file archive <base>.img.tar.gz

Do you think we need to support resizing from that archive?

I'd rather just drop uncompres/extract support all together.