UEC image resize script

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 08:55:39AM +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> I think we could use a new "uectools" package that generally builds on
> euca2ools to provide higher level abstractions, like our
> ubuntu-dev-tools package. For example, bundling an UEC EMI from the
> stuff we publish right now takes 9 commands. If we include
> resize-uec-image, that makes 10. And I'm pretty sure we can come up with
> other useful scripts to make the life of UEC users and UEC admins better.

I like this idea.  Scott and I have also discussed some higher-level tools
for working with EC2; could we fit those into the same package?

> If its not a good idea to add a package to karmic right now, then I'd
> recommend a LP project to have all the scripts under revision control +
> potentially a PPA to make them easier to install. Once we get a
> reasonable collection of scripts, then we can add the package to Lucid ?

We should put them in Bazaar in Launchpad regardless of whether we package
them for Karmic.  Adding a new package to universe should not be an issue,
though.

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 - mdz