Re: pbuilder sid chroot libpcap0
On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 02:00:08PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 21:13:37 +0200
> Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> wrote:
>
> > > Why does pbuilder even need to install libpcap0?
> >
> > Probably because a package with a broken dependency was left over.
> > That's just a rough guess, though.
>
> pbuilder uses debootstrap.
> debootstrap uses a static list of "base" and "required" packages it needs to install.
>
> debootstrap needs to be updated every time something in base and required
> change.
Why does this list need to be static?
Why can't debootstrap get a list of "base" and "required" packages
by looking at the Packages file?
--
Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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