On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 02:37:32AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > It doesn't have a script to actually make base tarballs. Ethan's should > be usable, if you change a "cd", or if you unpack it yourself. ill touch up my script when i get a chance to look at the new version of debootstrap. > As far as dbootstrap is concerned, it should add a prompt for fetching > a basedebs.tgz: either putting it together from floppies, or having it > on a local hard drive, or possibly on NFS, or similar. If you're using > that method of getting the base debs, you need to call debootstrap with > an extra option, so the invocation will look like: > > debootstrap --unpack-tarball /path/to/tarball woody /target null: > > . Otherwise everything should be pretty much the same. ill probably look at this too. > Someone (Hi Ethan :) will want to build some basedebs.tgz's too. Should be > pretty straightforward. It should be possible to build basedebs tarballs > for all architectures from a single machine, too -- just use the --arch > argument. Untested, though. it worked for me when i tested my version of the patch, my script already has an --arch option which will do this. ill make some basedebs.tgz on penguinppc.org (assuming debootstrap can deal with the broken distro running there..) as soon as i get my script fixed up. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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