On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 02:31:14PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Why is this better? For one, it's going to be able to work with > debian-installer, for sid release, since boot-floppies is going away > in sid. For two, its better because we don't have to create another > boot-floppies release to capture updates in base. We're able to turn > around base fixes as easily as updating the packages in the archive. sid will never be released, its forevermore unstable. once woody becomes stable we pick a new name for the next testing branch. > Some have asked for some way to install base via floppies -- you'll > have to take it up with AJ. CVS for the debootstrap package is > available in the same cvsroot as boot-floppies. I'm happy to try to > accomodate this on the boot-floppies side if the support is added to > debootstrap and some split images provided. However, AJ might not be > willing to do this at all, since it will invalidate (for floppy > install anyhow) many of the benefits above. i think as far as an implementation detail goes creating a tarball containing /var/cache/apt/archives of the base/required packages then teaching debootstrap to extract it there and use the packages would be fairly easy. dbootstrap could take care of putting a broken up tarball back together again in /tmp. but if aj wants base.tgz in all incarnations dead we shall have to forgo hard disk and floppy installation methods. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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