debootstrapping multidistributions

[Rob]

  On 10/21/2010 02:26 PM, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
>> Thank you very much. But how must it look the UBUNTU1004 class for example?
>> Is it the same as the classes located in package_config
> I guess UBUNTU1004 shall describe the configuration of a Ubuntu 10.04 system;
> then you'd need a UBUNTU1004.tar.gz in basefiles/, which will be unpacked for
> those hosts that will get all the other UBUNTU1004 stuff. Does this answer your
> question?

What is the best way to make the basefile.tar.gz?  Should we
do a debootstrap and tar up the files before booting the
bootstrapped system?