Re: debootstrap sid (was Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies/scripts/rootdisk by dwhedon)

[David Whedon <dwhedon@gordian.com>]

Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:24:57AM -0400 wrote:
> dwhedon@debian.org writes:
> 
> > include /usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/sid
> > 
> > At the moment it is a symlink to woody, and the way we build the root disk
> > doesn't preserve symlinks, so we are wasting a few k with two copies of the
> > same file, just different names.  I am assuming that at some point in the
> > future (once we freeze and sid has started to diverge from woody in more
> > important ways) these two scripts will be different.  With that in mind this
> > isn't the ideal solution today (wasted space b/c symlinks don't copy) but it is
> > the long best term solution.
> 
> Why aren't we using the '/usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/sid' which come
> with debootstrap?

we are, it's a symlink to woody, but the b-f buld system turns it into a regular
(identical file).