Re: Where is the base tarball?
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:20:54AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> >
> > Nope, you're right. But there's really no going back now.
> >
> > Perhaps someone could work through a patch to debootstrap that would
> > be able to use a dir with all the packages smooshed flat there?
>
> that won't handle the broken filenames, or the complete
> unreasonablness of asking users to sift through /debian/pool/main/*
> trying to figure out what they need to download.
>
> IMO debootstrap needs to support a tarball method where it fetches
> debs out of a tarball. but if not then i guess we will have to accept
> that debian can be installed only with direct internet access or via
> CDROM. not via hard disk.
>
> i would think it should not be hard to modify debootstrap to build a
> tarball of the debs it wants in order to make a sortof base2_3.tar
> (except containing .debs instead of a root filesystem). on the other
> end of the process it shouldn't be hard for it to use tar to extract
> the file it wants instead of wgetting it from http or whatever it
> does.
>
If there is no option for a tarball with a root filesystem in debian-boot,
then the Hurd is in trouble. At present the Hurd is installed two ways.
First, by a cross install where the tarball is unpacked onto a Hurd
partition from a Linux system. Secondly, where the tarball is
incorporated into a modified boot-floppies and installed in a more or less
standard way. The same tarball is used by both methods. A medium term
solution as far as the Hurd is concerned is not to move beyond the Woody
boot-floppies and to develop them further if this is needed.
Phil.
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