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Re: On the distribution (or not) of pre-made images on the Debian mirrors.

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> wrote:
On 03/18/2013 10:30 PM, Charles Plessy wrote:
> whouldn't it be better to simply distribute a tarball produced by
> debootstrap, instead of starting a cloud instance, connect to it, run
> debootstrap through ec2debian-build-ami, fetch the contents of the image, make
> a tarball, and stop the instance ?
Yes, I agree.
I always strap/create the image on a loopback mounted .img and as generic as possible so the base image is not specific for any particular cloud.
 
Thomas


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