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Doing a full boot and ssh might be overkill for now?","commit_id":"32c9bbf951de9e04cacf55f089bf39bdd16fc608"}],"diskimage_builder/elements/tarball/environment.d/10-tarball-distro-name.bash":[{"author":{"_account_id":14200,"name":"Maksim Malchuk","email":"maksim.malchuk@gmail.com","username":"mmalchuk"},"change_message_id":"deb7ef3eaf8dba398643609668cd1c2226de7cc2","unresolved":true,"context_lines":[{"line_number":2,"context_line":"# element does not know what OS is contained in the tarball."},{"line_number":3,"context_line":"# For example:"},{"line_number":4,"context_line":"#   export DISTRO_NAME\u003dubuntu"},{"line_number":5,"context_line":"#   export DIB_RELEASE\u003djammy"},{"line_number":6,"context_line":"export DISTRO_NAME\u003d${DISTRO_NAME:-tarball}"},{"line_number":7,"context_line":"export DIB_RELEASE\u003d${DIB_RELEASE:-unknown}"}],"source_content_type":"text/x-sh","patch_set":4,"id":"e6cbc1d0_2e866d77","line":5,"range":{"start_line":5,"start_character":23,"end_line":5,"end_character":28},"updated":"2026-09-01 07:46:43.000000000","message":"ditto","commit_id":"fa3af6ba1942a9cba18e69ca922e88d3de2292bc"},{"author":{"_account_id":14200,"name":"Maksim Malchuk","email":"maksim.malchuk@gmail.com","username":"mmalchuk"},"change_message_id":"0f76c6895e0623c542b075c71a13d9524ba5b65d","unresolved":true,"context_lines":[{"line_number":2,"context_line":"# element does not know what OS is contained in the tarball."},{"line_number":3,"context_line":"# For example:"},{"line_number":4,"context_line":"#   export DISTRO_NAME\u003dubuntu"},{"line_number":5,"context_line":"#   export DIB_RELEASE\u003djammy"},{"line_number":6,"context_line":"export DISTRO_NAME\u003d${DISTRO_NAME:-tarball}"},{"line_number":7,"context_line":"export DIB_RELEASE\u003d${DIB_RELEASE:-unknown}"}],"source_content_type":"text/x-sh","patch_set":4,"id":"ef84e859_79d9295a","line":5,"range":{"start_line":5,"start_character":23,"end_line":5,"end_character":28},"in_reply_to":"3b0b97cd_76dd120b","updated":"2026-09-25 20:51:20.000000000","message":"Sure, it\u0027s not a blocker. But it seems strange to use \"Noble\" everywhere in the text and \"Jammy\" in the example. ;)","commit_id":"fa3af6ba1942a9cba18e69ca922e88d3de2292bc"},{"author":{"_account_id":11655,"name":"Julia Kreger","email":"juliaashleykreger@gmail.com","username":"jkreger","status":"Flying to the moon with a Jetpack!"},"change_message_id":"a5e4a6e739538ca9b8ccf4e4bca194dedc0a645c","unresolved":true,"context_lines":[{"line_number":2,"context_line":"# element does not know what OS is contained in the tarball."},{"line_number":3,"context_line":"# For example:"},{"line_number":4,"context_line":"#   export DISTRO_NAME\u003dubuntu"},{"line_number":5,"context_line":"#   export DIB_RELEASE\u003djammy"},{"line_number":6,"context_line":"export DISTRO_NAME\u003d${DISTRO_NAME:-tarball}"},{"line_number":7,"context_line":"export 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