On 1 May 2014 00:59, Chris Fordham <ch...@fordham-nagy.id.au> wrote:

> Personally, I'd prefer that we use packer instead of bootstrap-vz (
> https://github.com/andsens/bootstrap-vz) to build official Debian images
> of which should be published on http://cdimage.debian.org or the more
> appropriate file server for users to download.
>
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:21 AM, Miguel Landaeta <nomad...@debian.org>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 09:59:49PM +0200, Jan Wagner wrote:
>> >
>> > Did you have a look into
>> > /usr/share/docker.io/contrib/mkimage-debootstrap.sh? You can generate
>> > your own image via debootstrap.
>>
>> And what debian-cloud team? (CCing them)
>>
>> I don't know if that it's outside of the tasks of the team (what do you
>> think guys?) but it would be nice if you can provide properly
>> maintained and signed images?
>>
>> I'm a member of that team (I'm almost inactive although) but maybe we
>> can contribute with that. For example, I have a very simple image in my
>> web page[1] generated with debootstrap and signed with my key since is
>> the only one I trust so far to play around with docker.
>>
>>
>>
>> 1. http://people.debian.org/~nomadium/docker/images/
>>
>> --
>> Miguel Landaeta, nomadium at debian.org
>> secure email with PGP 0x6E608B637D8967E9 available at
>>
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>> "Faith means not wanting to know what is true." -- Nietzsche
>>
>
>
Could you elaborate on *why* you prefer packer? What are the advantages
over bootstrap-vz?
As I see it right now, I'd like to ask the question whether you could send
packer via email or whether it would fit on a floppy (if you catch my
drift<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SricpmKQd3U>
).

Anders

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