Bug#220550: base-installer: should take into account that deboostrap is not idempotent
OK, I've got a patch ready for this, which simply stats /target/bin/sh and
uses that as a heuristic of an already existing install (which would make
debootstrap fail). This would fail if an old /usr partition was mounted
inside a fresh / partition, but it would at least help in 95% of the cases.
(I could of course simply stat /target/usr/bin/awk too, or simply even
/target/usr/bin; that would solve the /usr problems. :-) )
The problem is what we do if the user wants to remove everything. Can I do a
system("rm -rf /target/*")? (The user would have to be informed very clearly
that this will remove everything on ALL partitions...) Or should I simply
tell the user to always go back to partconf and clear the partitions from
there? Apart from that and some testing, I believe the patch should be
working OK.
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