From 44d7d31c0872997862ddc41e537480315e69561f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lars Wirzenius Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:44:56 +0300 Subject: Add: some historical context to vmdb2.mdwn --- vmdb2.mdwn | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/vmdb2.mdwn b/vmdb2.mdwn index 11d640e..4aadaf4 100644 --- a/vmdb2.mdwn +++ b/vmdb2.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ --- -title: vmdb2 manual +title: Building Debian system images with vmdb2 +author: Lars Wirzenius +date: work-in-progress ... Introduction @@ -13,10 +15,31 @@ of architectural problems with the old program. The new program is not compatible with the old one; that would've required keeping the problems, as well. +Why vmdb2 given vmdebootstrap already existed +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Installation +`vmdebootstrap` was the first attempt by Lars Wirzenius to write a +tool to build system images. It turned out to not be well designed. +Specifically, it was not easily extensible to be as flexible as a tool +of this sort should be. + +Why vmdb2 given other tools already exist ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Lars likes to write tools for himself and had some free time. He +sometimes prefers to write his own tools rather than spend time and +energy evaluating and improving existing tools. He admits this is a +character flaw. + +Also, he felt ashamed of how messy `vmdebootstrap` turned out to be. + +If nobody else likes `vmdb2`, that just means Lars had some fun on his +own. + + +Installation +============================================================================= + You can get vmdb2 by getting the source code from git: git clone git://git.liw.fi/vmdb2 -- cgit v1.2.1