Thank you for the feedback. Let's go ahead and drop this bug for the time being while I make the changes. Once I get the feedback implemented, I'll re-raise a bug.
~Ben On 09/28/2011 02:43 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > first some general things.. > > * please clean your changes from useless whitespaces at EOL and EOF. > > * please use proper indenting and coding style to match the rest of > live-build, see > http://live.debian.net/manual/en/html/coding-style.html; lb is not > 100% consistent everywhere, but almost) > > * please keep logical seperated things in seperated patches, > e.g. > > -127.0.1.1»·····debian > +127.0.1.1»·····${LB_MODE} > > in the place where /etc/hosts is created, is perfectly fine, > but has nothing to do with adding ubuntu cloud images and should > be a seperate commit on it's own. there are a couple of other things > like that that should be applied individually. > > * if you add new features/behaviour to existing helpers, don't break > old behaviour. e.g. > > - ls config/task-lists/*.list.chroot > /dev/null 2>&1 || \ > - ls config/task-lists/*.list.chroot_${_PASS} > /dev/null 2>&1 > + ls config/task-lists/*.list.${_TARGET} > /dev/null 2>&1 || \ > + ls config/task-lists/*.list.${_TARGET}_${_PASS} > /dev/null 2>&1 > > if we would do that, we would not just break existing configs > (which sometimes is inevitable and ok-ish for development versions > such as lb 3.x) but it would also mean, that now everyone has to > define user overly complicated task list names for the default > (!= your target thing) case. > > a proper way to do this is to do look for the additional files > in addition, and still respect the other ones. > > * why do you add a new stage 'image' in the first place? producing > ubuntu cloud images just means that's another binary image time > alongside iso and hdd, not a whole new stage within live-build. in > fact, i don't see why this cannot be done on top on hdd anyways. > > * do you happen to have a git tree online? it would probably be > more convenient for both of us :) > > i think it would be best if you do above things, then we apply all the > non-ubuntu-cloud-image related things (the misc fixes like the > /etc/hosts one), and then the big one for adding the ubuntu-cloud-images > thing. > > Regards, > Daniel > > > > -- Ben Howard ben.how...@canonical.com Canonical USA, Inc GPG ID 0x5406A866
