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This bug was fixed in the package livecd-rootfs - 2.435.2

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livecd-rootfs (2.435.2) yakkety; urgency=medium

  [ Chris Glass ]
  * Fix the manifest generation in OVA files so that ovf files don't have
    double extensions.  (LP: #1627931)
  * Fix the OVF's metadata to include Ubuntu specific identifiers and
    descriptions instead of the generic Linux ones.  (LP: #1656293)
  [ Daniel Watkins ]
  * Add replace_grub_root_with_label function thereby consolidating multiple
    uses of the same calls to sed.

 -- Robert C Jennings <robert.jennings@xxxxxxxxxx>  Fri, 17 Mar 2017
13:46:47 -0500

** Changed in: livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu Yakkety)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  OVF metadata for Ubuntu is wrong

Status in cloud-images:
  In Progress
Status in livecd-rootfs package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in livecd-rootfs source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released
Status in livecd-rootfs source package in Yakkety:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  * Ubuntu images are identified generically as 32- or 64-bit Linux with
  a 2.6 kernel rather than Ubuntu 32-/64-bit images.  Tools that consume
  the images can not perform OS-specific actions based on the current
  metadata.

  [Test Case]

  $ apt-get install virtualbox

  $ wget http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/xenial/current/xenial-server-
  cloudimg-amd64.ova

  $ vboxmanage import --dry-run xenial-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova
  ...
  Virtual system 0:
   0: Suggested OS type: "Linux26_64"
      (change with "--vsys 0 --ostype <type>"; use "list ostypes" to list all possible values)
  ...

  We would expect the following after the fix:
  Virtual system 0:
   0: Suggested OS type: "Ubuntu_64"

  [Regression Potential]

   * Low: A user downloads the image with the change and checks the OS
  type field to see that Ubuntu is a marked as a generic 2.6 kernel
  Linux image and now we will have changed "Linux26_*" to "Ubuntu_*".

  [Original Description]
  The OVF files produced by cloud-images currently contain:

  <OperatingSystemSection ovf:id="100" vmw:osType="other3xLinux64Guest">
        <Info>The kind of installed guest operating system</Info>
  </OperatingSystemSection>

  The OVF specification has entries for Ubuntu, and that usually allows
  client machines to customize the host using whatever their method is.

  The specific entries for Ubuntu 64 bits are:
  - ovf:id: 94
  - ovf:osType: ubuntu64Guest

  The specific entries for Ubuntu 32 bits are:
  - ovf:id: 93
  - ovf:osType: ubuntu32Guest

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