Friday 19 May 2023

Re: incoming change to task handling in livecd-rootfs in mantic

On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 09:05:28PM +1200, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote:
> After a few rounds of fixups, this change passed all tests and has now
> migrated to release, so the next round of mantic image builds will be built
> with it. Let me know if you see anything strange in them!

Really nice, great work. This has been long overdue, glad it finally got
sorted out.

Although the backslash line was one of my favourite lines of code in the
archive and I'll be sad to see it go. :-)

I was reminded of

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/livecd-rootfs/+bug/1921862

When reading this thread. tl;dr is that it's not (was not at the time)
possible to seed new packages post-release because germinate isn't being
run for -updates in the publisher so the newly-seeded packages don't get
Task headers. Would that be any more possible to achieve now? (For
seeding only: *un*seeding is more gnarly, it involves knowing how to
have -updates override release.)

Cheers!

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