debootstrapping multidistributions

[Rob]

  On 10/21/2010 02:49 PM, Rob wrote:
>  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?

And, reading http://fai-project.org/fai-guide/ar01s07.html, I'm also 
wondering where
I can put a hook in FAI to create the basefiles.tar.gz on a newly 
bootstrapped
system which is being built by fai.

It seems the hook would go right before the "configure" task.  Correct?