Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> writes: > Hi, > > I just created > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer-netboot-images/-/merge_requests/3, > which removes the "grep -v mini.iso" from the "get-images.sh" script. > The idea being that it can be useful to have a mini.iso available > locally in case you want to install a VM with libvirt. While it's > possible to PXE boot a VM and install that way, this involves some > infrastructure that needs to be set up, and pointing to a .iso file that > exists locally seems easier. > > I usually have a netboot mini.iso file in my home directory for that > purpose, but it needs to be kept up to date with every point release, > and that's a bit of an annoyance. I think it would be easier to just > have it in the debian-installer-netboot-images package. I presume you're currently downloading a published mini.iso, rather than building them locally, is that right? Rather than packaging up the mini.iso's, how about having a package that acts as an installer, and downloads the published image that matches the relevant kerrnel version. The reason I think that might be worth the effort is that I suspect that quite a lot of the mini.iso's would have almost no users (depending on architecture etc), so copying them across the whole mirror network seems like a significant waste of resources. Personally, I tend to use the netinst for the purpose you describe, and think that it might be quite useful to have a package that would maintain a copy of the current image on my systems, so such a package could be more widely useful than just for mini.iso downloads. The 'di-netboot-assistant' package does something a bit like this (and much more, for TFTP booting), so perhaps it could be extended for this use case, although I think it currently only downloads stuff in response to user requests, rather than automatically on upgrade. Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil
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