Category debian:system-tarball

This artifact contains a tarball of a Debian system. The tarball is compressed with xz.

  • Data:

    • filename: filename of the tarball inside the artifact (e.g. “system.tar.xz”).

    • vendor: name of the distribution vendor (can be found in ID field in /etc/os-release)

    • codename: name of the distribution used to bootstrap the system

    • mirror: URL of the mirror used to bootstrap the system

    • variant: value of --variant parameter of debootstrap

    • pkglist: a dictionary listing versions of installed packages (cf dpkg-query -W)

    • architecture: the architecture of the Debian system

    • with_dev: boolean value indicating whether /dev has been populated with the most important special files in /dev (null, zero, full, random, urandom, tty, console, ptmx) as well as some usual symlinks (fd, stdin, stdout, stderr).

    • with_init: boolean value indicating whether the system contains an init system in /sbin/init and can thus be “booted” in a container.

  • Files:

    • $filename (e.g. system.tar.xz): tarball of the Debian system

  • Relationships:

    • None.

Note

In preparation of support of different compression schemes, we have decided that the extension of the filename dictates the compression scheme used and that it should be compatible with tar --auto-compress.