Re: Debian images on Oracle Compute Cloud Service
On Fri, 2016-01-29 at 14:14 -0200, Tiago Ilieve wrote:
> Hello fellows from Debian CD and Debian Cloud teams,
>
> As you may know, Oracle is interested on getting official Debian
> images on their cloud platform[1]. I've been working with them on this
> matter and now that we have a proper way to build those images using
> bootstrap-vz (the code is not yet on upstream, but is available on my
> fork[2]), we would like to do what is needed to call them "official".
> Emmanuel Kasper remembered[3] us of the guidelines for official
> images[4] and I talked with Steve McIntyre in private about this.
>
> Today, I took a few hours to read again the entire thread (and related
> off-thread messages) started by Martin Zobel-Helas[5] regarding Debian
> images on Azure, which brought the matter to our attention in the last
> November. Right now my main concern is: we need a custom kernel
> (compressed with gzip instead of xz), otherwise the instance will not
> be able to boot on the current version of Oracle Compute Cloud
> Service.
[...]
Is this the same issue described in
<https://wiki.debian.org/Xen#Error_.22unknown_compression_format.22>?
That's quite sad as Xen has supported xz compression for several years
now.
I don't think this is sufficient reason to change compression back, and
we're certainly not going to do that for jessie.
If OCC supports loading uncompressed kernels, perhaps you could add a
support package that decompresses vmlinuz at kernel installation time?
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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