On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 10:03:08PM -0700, David Whedon wrote:
> Package: debootstrap
> /etc/modules is created by dbootstrap, presumably when we run modconf, alas an
> empty /etc/modules is also provided by the modutils package. Our carefully
> constructed /etc/modules is overwritten when debootstrap installs modutils. I
> don't know the best way to handle this. I'm in bug finding mode at the moment,
> not bug fixing :-)
Oh, uggh. This won't be when debootstrap installs modutils, but rather
when it initially untars it to try to get the essential packages working.
This is *really* hard to avoid. Can b-f's work around it instead, possibly
by writing /etc/modules (and any other conffiles in required/essential
packages) *after* running debootstrap?
An alternate workaround might be giving debootstrap some easy way of
recovering anything it might overwrite... Hmmm. I could maybe wrap the
dangerous untaring with something like:
if [ -d /target/etc ]; then
mv /target/etc /target/etc-pre-debootstrap
fi
...
if [ -d /target/etc-pre-debootstrap ]; then
mv /target/etc-pre-debootstrap/* /target/etc
fi
or so. But that'll break for conffiles outside /etc (which there admittedly
shouldn't be any of) and might be otherwise flakey. :-/ I dunno...
Cheers,
aj
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