Bug#762392: Publish self-contained debootstrapped tarballs
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:12:20PM +0300, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 2014-09-21 at 21:46 +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > Anyone that can deal with those issues after installing a tarball should
> > have no trouble at all running {c}debootstrap themselves.
>
> What if {c}debootstrap isn't available in their environment? That's
> specifically the case I was talking about.
>
> I suppose we may consider distributing {c}debootstrap in a
> distro-neutral, self-contained package, but I'm unsure how difficult
> that is.
debootstrap was specifically written to not require anything from a
Debian system; it should work on just about any POSIX system.
At least that was the case a decade ago; I must admit I haven't been
following along very well.
If that's still the case, then all you really need is to do something
like "alien --to-tgz debootstrap*deb"
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