Re: On the distribution (or not) of pre-made images on the Debian mirrors.
On 03/16/2013 11:19 AM, Charles Plessy wrote:
> For instance, is it possible to do anything useful with a tarball
> dump as a starting point ?
I do believe that a tarball of all files of that cloud image
would be a good starting point yes. For DTC-Xen, which
I wrote, for example, that's what is used for images.
What I think has value, is already made .ovf, and A{M,R,K}I
files because they are what the final user will use, and that
saves time to not have to build them.
> What would be the advantage compared with
> providing our users with an easy way to create the images themselves ?
We could do both, I don't think we have a mutual exclusion
thing here. We could provide the tarball and images, and
also provide the scripts which do the work of creating the
VM images.
> Debian distributes CD images with jigdo in addition and in preference to
> pre-made images. Shall we follow that example instead ?
I never used jigdo, and do not really know how it works.
> Also, we need to think about the possible overlaps and synergies with the
> distribution of "live" images.
Could you explain more about this? Are you thinking about live-build?
Thomas
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