canonical/cloud-init

genisoimage may be going away

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#3,838 opened on May 12, 2023

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This bug was originally filed in Launchpad as LP: #1915077

Launchpad user Michael Hudson-Doyle(mwhudson) wrote on 2021-02-08T21:39:44.694094+00:00

It seems that cdrkit, which is where genisoimage comes from, is dead upstream and is likely to be removed from debian: https://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud/2021/02/msg00011.html

Plenty of cloud-init docs and tutorials refer to genisoimage to create seed ISOs, it may be time to find something else.

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Investigate available tools such as xorriso or mkisofs that can replace genisoimage for creating seed ISOs. Update documentation and scripts accordingly.
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