is memtest86+ useful in ubuntu-standard ?

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Tue Jan 21 21:06:47 UTC 2014


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 04:00:25PM -0500, Scott Moser wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2014, Colin Watson wrote:
> > I think memtest86+ is a great example of something that we might want in
> > the default server install but not in cloud images; so my favoured
> > option here would be simply to move memtest86+ to the desktop-common and
> > server seeds, which I believe will cause it to vanish from the cloud
> > images as things are currently configured.
> 
> Well, for one reason or another, that I'm not completely sure of, the
> cloud image build process using live-build explicitly declares the 'server'
> as a task to install.

That strikes me as a historical artifact, and probably worth cleaning
up.

> So moving memtest86+ to server wont really help.
> 
> So I guess I just need to remove -server from the tasks that are installed
> by the cloud-image build process, and then add to cloud-image seed
> anything that is in server seed that we want.

Sounds good to me!

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]



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