[Bug 1585233] Re: Provide -root.tar.xz for bionic and later

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This bug was fixed in the package livecd-rootfs - 2.531

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livecd-rootfs (2.531) cosmic; urgency=medium

  [ Daniel Watkins ]
  * ubuntu-cpc: Use linux-kvm for all amd64 minimized builds (LP: #1775472).

  [ Steve Langasek ]
  * live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks/033-disk-image-uefi.binary: don't manually
    install grub-efi-amd64 since that forces off grub-pc, which is otherwise
    now coinstallable.

 -- Steve Langasek <steve.langasek at ubuntu.com>  Wed, 06 Jun 2018
17:34:07 -0700

** Changed in: livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  Provide -root.tar.xz for bionic and later

Status in cloud-images:
  Confirmed
Status in livecd-rootfs package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Hi,
  compared to xenial [1], yakkety [2] is missing a -root.tar.xz file.
  The .tar.xz file is quite valuable compared to a -squashfs image for at least the following reasons:

  a.) it is much less common denominator (mac or windows can open it)
  b.) it is much smaller (138M compared to 171M for most recent xenial image)
  c.) it can be "streamed", where the squashfs image must be downloaded in complete before it can be viewed.  This is a significant optimization for for a system that can download and check while extracting.

  [1] http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/daily/server/xenial/current/
  [2] http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/daily/server/yakkety/current/

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