Bug#672104: ITP: pv-grub-menu.lst

[Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>]

Hi Charles,

I've not looked at the tool yet, but I wonder if this might be something
which could be usefully maintained as part of the upstream Xen project
(of which I'm one maintainer) alongside pygrub.

Or is the tool mostly about the Debian integration rather than the
generation of a compatible menu.lst?

What do you think?

Ian.

On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 08:41 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> reassign 672104 wnpp
> retitle 672104 ITP: pv-grub-menu.lst
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> Some systems booted by PV-Grub need a menu.lst file like the one created by
> grub1, but without GRUB itself on the MBR.  Such systems include computer cloud
> systems like Amazon's Elastic Computer Cloud.  Some methods to create such
> systems do not fit well with installing the grub-legacy package, as there may
> be no MBR available.
>  
> In Ubuntu, there is a binary package, called grub-legacy-ec2, that provides
> kernel hooks and and update script to maintain the menu.lst file when kernels
> are changed.  This package is part of the cloud-init source package, but is
> unrelated to the upstream cloud-init source.  In Debian, cloud-init will be
> maintained in the Python Applications Packaging Team, and grub-legacy-ec2 does
> not fit well there, as it is not a python application.
> 
> After discussion with the Ubuntu maintainer of the cloud-init package, our plan
> is to provide the functions of grub-legacy-ec2 in a separate source package.  I
> send this ITP with a more generic name that I feel is more descriptive, unless
> it is only useful on the Amazon EC2.  But I am open to keep the original name
> if it helps.
> 
> People interested in co-maintaining this package, we welcome you.
> 
> Currently my plan is to set up a Git repository on collab-maint, with the
> grub-legacy-ec2 part of Ubuntu's cloud-init source package as a starting point.
> GRUB Maintainers, I would be happy to place the package under your umbrella if
> you are intersted.  I would like to interface well with grub2, perhaps through
> depending on grub2-common if possible, in order to be co-installable with
> grub-pc without diversions.
> 
> For those who wonder why this ITP is not about bioinformatics, this is part of
> my long-standing goal of developping a fully debian-contained, preseedable, and
> unattended procedure to prepare Debian Med images for computer clouds.
> 
> (see http://charles.plessy.org/Debian/debiâneries/installeur-debian-dans-un-nuage/ ) 
> 
> Have a nice day,
> 
> -- 
> Charles Plessy
> Debian Med packaging team,
> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
> Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
> 
> 
> 

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