Jigdo?
Chris Walker wrote:
> One further pipedream. AIUI, it is currently possible to make a
> combined liveDVD with installer, but it contains the same data twice
> (as a .deb and unpacked). Pristine-tar could permit the data to be
> stored only once (if adapted to cope with the deb file format).
to be precise, only the few packages needed for netinst (~80mb or so) is
available twice - when using live-installer, d-i installs the resulting
system not by unpacking .debs from the cdrom, but by unpacking the
squashfs to the harddisk.
nevertheless, also saving those 'few' MBs would be neat.
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