On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 10:46:45PM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > Thank you, thank you! This solution should solve my pppoe problem in the > same way as the base tarball does now for potato when I do an install. > I'd be able to separately install the pppoe software after the > basedebs.tgz is installed, and before I have to be on the network, if > I'm reading this correctly. except aj has rejected the patch so it won't be merged or available in b-f. i am looking at fixing aj's main complaint (keeping the dist scripts ignorant of acquisition method), there is no guarentee he will accept that patch either though. from my current tests it looks like both my tar:// method and aj's null:// method would require the exact same hack to work (while keeping the dist scripts ignorant of download method). i am more inclined to keep tar:// since i don't see why debootstrap should not be able to extract the tarball itself, that seems natural to me (debootstrap gets .debs, from file:// or http:// or ftp:// so why not extract a thoeretical tarball as well?) and i have learned the LESS code we have to screw with in dbootstrap the better. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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