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The Secret Maze of Debian Images (blog.fai-project.org)

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Delve into the wondrous labyrinth of sparkling images that is the Debian build output.

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[–] reallyzen@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 days ago (7 children)

"You can ignore the SHA... files if you do not know what they are needed for. They are not important for you."

...That's where I stopped reading this.

[–] butter@midwest.social 4 points 2 days ago

I'm fully aware of what a SHA file is, and it's entirely unimportant to me.

Admittedly, I did check the arch image I use at work.

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