New image organization and snap format

[Michael Vogt]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 06:02:54PM +0100, Alexander Sack wrote:
> Hi,
Hi Alexander,

> Is this good for early playing with ubuntu-device-flash to make a
> first image with a local custom kernel by just replacing the
> ubuntu-kernel.mvo with a local .snap created using rtgs snapcraft
> plugin? Or better wait another few days?

It should be ready for this, yes. Make sure you use the custom
ubuntu-devce-flash from ~mvo/all-snaps. I have not played with the rtg
snapcraft plugin yet, but I'm curious, so please keep me updated on
how that goes!

Thanks,
 Michael
 
>  - Alexander
> 
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Michael Vogt
> <michael.vogt at canonical.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 04:26:13PM -0200, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> >> This is (perhaps) the last major change which I'd like to raise attention
> >> to, and it's perhaps one of the most disruptive and exciting ones too.
> >>
> >> In the coming weeks we'll be landing relevant changes related to how the
> >> ubuntu core image itself is organized, and also to the packaged format of
> >> snaps. The new format is not backwards compatible, but there are relevant
> >> benefits that will become apparent as that work lands and unrolls. Michael
> >> Vogt is leading these changes for quite some time now, and we're expecting
> >> them to become visible in the following weeks.
> >
> > We made some good progress here in the last few weeks and there is an
> > experimental "all-snap" image available at:
> >
> >   https://people.canonical.com/~mvo/all-snaps/ [1]
> >
> > This image is build using a kernel and os squashfs snap. It also fully
> > supports squashfs application snaps [2] as well as 15.04 snaps.
> >
> > The amd64 image is build from the store and can be updated from the
> > store. There is also an armhf (beagle bone black) image which is using
> > sideloaded kernel/os snaps (sideloaded because of some open questions
> > about architecture handling in the store).
> >
> > There is more work to do, but this is an important milestone on the
> > road to 16.04!
> >
> > Cheers,
> >  Michael
> >
> > [1] Created with the ubuntu-device-flash in that same directory which
> >     is build from lp:~snappy-dev/goget-ubuntu-touch/all-snaps
> > [2] Only hello-world.mvo and the ubuntu-{core,kernel} snaps are
> >     squashfs snaps at this point.
> >
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