[Sisuite-announce] imagemanip - permission/revision management tool

[dann f. <da...@da...>]

hey,
  I thought this was announce worthy - imagemanip provides a mechanism
for allowing non-root users to modify images, and also includes a
mechanism for revision management of images.  This release is considered
stable, but has had limited testing.

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Hopefully I haven't reproduced any existing work (nothing I found handled
all our requirements), but I wrote a tool to manipulate system imager
images (or any "chroot"-able area).  The idea is in some situations, users
other than "root" want to change their images (like in a testing
environment, where the testers don't have root access to the machine that
houses the images).  "imagemanip" will manage their root-access of the 
image and attempt to help maintain an audit trail of the changes made.

I've got the initial cut available on:
http://developer.osdl.org/kees/software/imagemanip

It still needs a little more work (as seen in the "TODO" file), and more 
detailed documentation.  The design of the tool is in the "DESIGN" file, 
which is probably easier to read than the terse "README".  :)

I'm interested in any feedback.

Thanks!

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