Re: base*.tgz is gone, and why it's gone

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Subject: Re: base*.tgz is gone, and why it's gone
From: Brian May <bam@debian.org>
Date: 17 Jun 2001 16:13:35 +1000
Message-id: <[🔎] 87ae3763cg.fsf@scrooge.chocbit.org.au>
In-reply-to: Jason Gunthorpe's message of "Sat, 16 Jun 2001 23:56:43 -0600 (MDT)"
References: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.1010616235407.31902E-100000@wakko.deltatee.com>

>>>>> "Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> writes:

    Jason> On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Anthony Towns wrote:

    >> Hrm? debootstrap works on non-Debian Linux's, at least (I've
    >> had one report of a successful run under Red Hat, eg). It
    >> probably works on non-Debian Unix's that have a
    >> Linux-binary-compatibility module of some sort, modulo some
    >> bugs.

    Jason> Er, no the point is primarily that it can't make a base.tgz
    Jason> for anything but the arch it is running on. I want to
    Jason> 'cross build' them.

Why not?

(never having used debootstrap yet, just curious)
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>

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