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Bug#246007: Processed: reassign 246007 to debootstrap



Anthony Towns wrote:
> Right back at ya. debootstrap requires that much temporary space; it's
> the way it works and I can't see that changing. 

debootstrap copies all of base from file:/ uris before unpacking any of
it. If it were changed to just use the files without copying, it would
not need all this space for standard CD installs.

> If d-i wants to add an option to link /var/cache/apt/archives to
> some other place, that's fine, but that's an issue for d-i, not for
> debootstrap, and at least as is, this is not a debootstrap issue.

d-i does not have piles of other space lying around.

-- 
see shy jo

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