On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 07:41:53PM +0100, Public mailing list for Arch Linux development wrote:
It would be probably seen as more "official" if it was mentioned on our website.
Absolutly! I will see what I can do to bring that on our website.
My first goal has been to add some hypervisors, but due to the fact that we have only libvirt and virtualbox in our repositories I have dismissed this plan. The automated build process works fine so far (except some issues with qemu[2] and the dependency on punctual iso releases on soyuz. The latter should we definitly fix. Currently the iso images are build manually. Can we automate this somehow? I really rely on punctual releases otherwise the automated build will fail and somebody needs to trigger the build again manually. Happened about 1-2 times..)
This is something that would require a virtually offline box to be fully automated. For the time being, it sounds better to upgrade your vagrant image after first week of the month.
Actually I do this already. The systemd timer for the automated builds is set on the 5th of each month (round about a week). Normally the ISO was there on 1st or 2nd each month, but in the last months its more like 6th or 9th. I could move that timer on 14th, but I would definitly prefer to have the vagrant boxes around the same date as we release our ISO images.
Also, any plans to expand the scope to support OpenStack, AWS and GCE? At the moment the scope sounds rather limited.
It's possible to build images for OpenStack, AWS and GCE, but as far as I understand the docs for it we would need an OpenStack cloud for OpenStack images, an AWS account for generating Amazon EC2 Images and a Google Account for generating GCE Images[1], because the packer connects to these services to generate the image.
Can you actually give more details how it's going to look like? Sangy worked on this. He explained it one day, but It's already some months ago. I hope he will attend our discussion here and give us a short summary about that process.