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Re: Packaging virtual machine images .ova?



On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 06:30:27AM +0000, adrelanos wrote:
> >> Many users having trouble downloading the (rather big) images.
> >> (Download
> >> corruption, network breakdown...)
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> If it could be installed with a "apt-get install whonix", that would
> >> be
> >> much better than manually downloading.
> > Not really. How would that be different?
>
> Integrated hash sum verification, no corrupted downloads, no need to
> import my gpg key, resume download supported.
Hash sum verification is easy these days with tools in coreutils. wget and
many other tools support resumed downloads. Unless you want to put this
package into Debian, and you won't be able to, you still need to ask
users to import your key.

> > There are also other problems,
>
> Such as?
Installing a package is very different from downloading a file: you need
root rights, the file is installed in a fixed location, you cannot remove
the package without the file disappearing, removing the file will cause
package checking tools like debsums to report a removed file.

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