Re: Publishing raw generic{,cloud} images without tar, and without compression, plus versionning of point releases

[Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>]

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 12:16:32PM +0100, kuLa wrote:
> Are you thinking about doing it within FAI or outside of it using new
> tool set for this?

Outside.  FAI would in any case only create the directory tree, not the
filesystem is lives in or the image.  So what it does would look the
same in any case and the differences between the outputs would only show
up in a subsequent step.

But I don't know yet how.  Maybe:
- Run FAI on a empty directory on an arbitrary filesystem.
- Run tests on it.
- If the output requires an image:
  - create image, partition
  - rsync tree onto it
  - run post-image stuff, like grub installation
  - bundle it up like now
- If no image:
  - bundle the directory
- Collect information

Bastian

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