Bug#762392: Publish self-contained debootstrapped tarballs

2014-09-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:12:20PM +0300, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu wrote: Hi, On Sun, 2014-09-21 at 21:46 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: [snip] Anyone that can deal with those issues after installing a tarball should have no trouble at all running {c}debootstrap themselves. What if

Bug#762392: Publish self-contained debootstrapped tarballs

2014-09-22 Thread Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
Hi, On Sun, 2014-09-21 at 21:46 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: [snip] Anyone that can deal with those issues after installing a tarball should have no trouble at all running {c}debootstrap themselves. What if {c}debootstrap isn't available in their environment? That's specifically the case I was

Bug#762392: Publish self-contained debootstrapped tarballs

2014-09-21 Thread Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
Package: cdimage.debian.org Severity: wishlist Installing Debian when debootstrap isn't available can be extremely inconvenient, because the only alternative is the installer, which is: - slow - requires booting the media - primarily aimed for stable - inflexible and difficult to customize and/or

Bug#762392: Publish self-contained debootstrapped tarballs

2014-09-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 09:57:05PM +0300, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu wrote: Package: cdimage.debian.org Severity: wishlist Installing Debian when debootstrap isn't available can be extremely inconvenient, because the only alternative is the installer, which is: - slow - requires booting the media

Bug#762392: Publish self-contained debootstrapped tarballs

2014-09-21 Thread Philip Hands
Hi Eduard, Given that you say, quite rightly, that it's pretty easy to generate tarballs: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu edg...@gmail.com writes: ... Generating them can be quite straightforward, and doesn't even require root privileges: $ cdebootstrap --foreign --arch=ARCH [...] $ tar [...] I'd