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Re: vmdebootstrap going away in September, switch now



Package: autopkgtest
Version: 5.4.2


On Sun, 2018-07-29 at 23:24 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> I notice that the autopkgtest man pages still reference vmdebootstrap,
> specifically autopkgtest-virt-qemu.1:
> 
> > BUILDING IMAGES
> >    Debian
> >        For Debian you can use vmdebootstrap(8) to build a suitable image. E. g. for unstable:
> > 
> >               vmdebootstrap --verbose --serial-console --distribution=sid \
> >                  --customize=/usr/share/autopkgtest/setup-commands/setup-testbed \
> >                  --user=test/test --size=10000000000 --grub --image=autopkgtest-sid.raw
> >               qemu-img convert -O qcow2 autopkgtest-sid.raw  autopkgtest-sid.img
> >               rm autopkgtest-sid.raw
> 
> 
> Could those man pages be updated to list the commands for a/the
> recommended replacement/successor of vmdebootstrap?

vmdebootstrap is going away and the manual page quoted above needs to be
updated to use a replacement, such a debos or vmdb2 or FAI.

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