[pkg-fso-maint] Downloadable result of install.sh?

[Nikita V. Youshchenko]

> "Nikita V. Youshchenko" <yoush at debian.org> writes:
> > Hi
> >
> > Looking at recent discussions in several lists, quite a people are
> > unable to complete debian-on-freerunner installation with install.sh
> > because of dependency issues.
> >
> > Given nature of debian unstable, such situations will happen in future
> > as well. This looks like contant source of frustration to all those
> > new users who want to try debian.
> >
> > Because of that, it could be a good idea to keep a tarball of
> > successfully completed install.sh somewhere, and let people download
> > and unpack that (either as a backup option, or even as a recommended
> > way).
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> What do you mean... the whole result of the Debian system ?

Problem is that running cdebootstrap of debian unstable will be broken 
sometimes similary to how it is broken now. We just can't do anything with 
it, that is how unstable works.

Because of that, there install.sh should have an option (and I vote that to 
be default) not to cdebootstrap new installation, but download and unpack 
filesystem tarball instead. This also has an advantage of being much 
faster.

Such a tarball could be created and updated (e.g. daily) using 
(c)debootstrap and pkg-fso's server side. This will keep it up-to-date, 
but if/when it does not work, older version will be kept, so user will 
just transparantly use that.

This way we will make debian installable always, and without black magic at 
user's side.

Nikita
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