Den Thu, 16 Apr 2015 19:01:58 +0100 skrev Bug#694025: Debian package of 'Oz' uploaded to mentors.debian.net: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 07:24:26PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > > Thanks for the pointer. Trying it out, it looks to me that they > > don't offer the same functionality. virt-builder downloads an > > image that someone else prepared (not sure how?) > > At the moment using: > https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/builder/website/debian.sh > but I intend to get out of the business of building disk images for > virt-builder, and use the cloud images prepared by distros. Nice pointer. That script does some of what I use oz for, but oz helps me with libvirt XML creation. And it has a manpage :-) > > To reduce confusion, maybe a small discussion in the package > > description or README.Debian is appropriate to explain the > > differences. > > > > Btw, thanks for doing the Oz Debian packaging. Was there any reason > > it wasn't uploaded back then? > > That's a good question -- I don't actually recall at all :-/ Do you see any problem including Oz in Debian? The tools look complementary, and Oz provide some value to me. I've added a pointer to the virt-install and virt-builder tools to the Oz package description now. I'll wait a few days for further comments, and then I plan to upload into NEW. Hopefully my Oz patch to support Debian 8 Jessie will be merged by then too. /Simon
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