Hi, Quoting Simon McVittie (2023-08-16 17:19:42) > On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 at 17:07:39 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > The other aspect is that we want to ship the > > aliasing symlinks in a package (base-files probably). > ... > > Is there any prerequisite you see missing before we can merge and upload > > this change? Any aspect to be analyzed? Any situation to be tested? Any > > conceptual aspect I am missing? > > You probably have, but: have you tried bootstrapping sid with a > locally-hacked base-files that adds the aliasing symlinks to its data.tar, to > check that this has the desired effect? independent of Helmut I have written my own set of patches to the Essential:yes set which installs to /usr instead of / as well as a patcher which takes existing *.deb files and moves files around from /usr to /. With the modified packages and unpatched debootstrap I get: I: Retrieving util-linux-extra 2.38.1-5 I: Validating util-linux-extra 2.38.1-5 I: Retrieving zlib1g 1:1.2.13.dfsg-1 I: Validating zlib1g 1:1.2.13.dfsg-1 I: Chosen extractor for .deb packages: dpkg-deb I: Extracting base-files... E: Tried to extract package, but file already exists. Exit... With Helmut's patch debootstrap finishes successfully and leaves me with a chroot that I was able to successfully run a shell in. The symlinks from bin, lib and sbin into /usr exist. I have not done very extensive testing yet but it looks like it does what it should. Thanks! cheers, josch
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