cloud-init and F16

[Aaron Bento]

Hello All,
I'm looking to provide some feedback on cloud-init and the F16 AMI's. I'm not
sure the proper place to file the bug against. I'm attempting to place a simple shell
script in user data to perform post-boot configuration. This fails since I'm unable to
execute anything within user data. (I'm hoping eventually to use cloud-config syntax)

The cloud-init startup process (sometime after placing the ssh keys) at one point runs:
/usr/bin/cloud-init-cfg all final During this stage, run-parts gets run to actually
execute the downloaded user data. It fails with the following:

CalledProcessError: Command '['run-parts', '--regex', '.*',
'/var/lib/cloud/instance/scripts']

The --regex flag is not accepted by the Fedora version of run-parts. Debian/Ubuntu both
have a compiled binary of run-parts that accepts this flag.

Here is a reproduction of it on an already booted machine:
https://gist.github.com/1503054

I've got two solutions that seem to work in initial testing.
1) Backing in a copy of run-parts that accepts the additional arguments into a new ami.
2) Removing the regex flag + expression out of
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cloudinit/util.py

So my question to the group. What is a better fix to peruse, adding functionality to
run-parts, or patching util.py to not use the regex?

Thanks!

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Aaron Bento