Re: Debian From Scratch
Stephen Birch <sgbirch@imsmail.org> writes:
> Goswin von Brederlow(brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de)@2004.05.25 13:03:17 +0000:
>>
>> Because debootstrap fails and fails and fails. cdebootstrap parses the
>> Packages file and adapts to missing or extra packages or changed
>> dependencies.
>
> What is the story here, where did cdebootstrap come from? Is it a fork
> of debootstrap :-(
>
> Steve
Its a redesign in C. It shares code with debian-installer. They could
have used a shell parser for the packages files to do the same but the
author had the C parser from udpkg a hand and used that.
Its a lot quicker in C than in shell.
MfG
Goswin
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