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Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...



Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > Adam Borowski wrote:
> >> Could you please mention which ones do not?  And if so, how are they
> >> relevant/are they fixable?
> >
> > As one of the maintainers of debootstrap, I am perhaps more aware than
> > some how broadly it's used. Ok..
> >
> > They use it on Android (41,600 hits including http://evilzone.org/android/debian-on-android/)
> > They use it on Nokia (96,600 hits)
> > They use it on Nook (14,000 hits)
> > They use it on headless old Red Hat systems in a datacenter somewhere
> > They use it on Debian oldstable systems, where xz-utils is not even packaged.
> > They use it on absolutely modern peices of unusual kit that ship with some
> > crufty busybox binary (no source naturally) from far up the supplier
> > chain, that was built well before xz support entered busybox in 2010.
> 
> How are they relevant? Where do they download and unpack udebs? Where is
> busybox used to unpack debs?

In the above message "it" is debootstrap.

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