New local provider changes land in trunk - quantal users beware

[Jonathan Lange]

On 6 October 2012 17:24, Clint Byrum <clint at ubuntu.com> wrote:
...
> This change switches the local provider to use the Ubuntu Cloud Images
> instead of building a minimal chroot with debootstrap. This brings the
> local provider closer in line with the other providers. This also means
> that you are more likely to have an up to date container on deploy.
...
> We've also removed all upstart jobs from the local provider, so there
> shouldn't be issues with the machine agent spinning out of control on
> reboot. It also won't leave anything behind if you reboot other than
> stale pid files in the data-dir.
>

Both very cool! Thanks!

> Unfortunately, while testing this extensively, I ran into this kernel
> bug in quantal quite a bit:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/+source/linux/+bug/1021471
>

Are you planning on holding off uploading to quantal until that bug is fixed?

jml