On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 09:19:56AM -0500, Paul Graydon wrote: > We are now standardizing on FAI to build our images. If you want the > Debian Oracle image to become official, it will have to use that. > > I took a quick look at FAI a few weeks back, but the dependency on > DHCP/tftp made it more than a little complicated to run in our cloud > environment (where we've been traditionally building images). As the > requirement is to build in your infrastructure, I guess that isn't an > issue :) I'll grab a look, after the Christmas break, at setting up a > simple VirtualBox environment and see what's what.
FAI doesn't actually require tftp or dhcp when generating cloud images, and the related packages are only listed as Recommends, so they don't need to be installed at all. FAI can be used for imaging physical systems, which is where the tftp functionality is used. noah
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