Re: What exactly replaced base-config
mlists@stacktrace.us wrote:
> So what exactly replaced base-config
It wasn't replaced, it was obsoleted by its maintainers (the installer
team) because it was no longer needed for new installs using the official
installer. It's functionality was _integrated in_ D-I, it was not
_replaced by_ D-I.
> base-config provided a set of useful utilities that could be run AFTER
> Debian was installed to quickly fix certain aspect of a Debian system or
> to do quick chrooted post install tasks.
True, but that was never its most common use case.
> Especially for argument 2, I'm expecting someone to say "just do it by
> hand", but as of now I don't see any way to run the installer udebs in
> the bootstrapped chroot, or another method to run post install
> options "the right way(tm)".
Doing the things it did by hand is currently the only option. You're
welcome to (help) develop replacement tools. Running udebs on an
installed system will never be an option, but some D-I components
(user-setup, apt-setup) already have provisions for a variant (regular
deb) that can be run on an installed system, but nobody has made the
effort needed to finalize them for that purpose.
If you're debootstrapping a system manually, I don't think it's too great
a burden to set things up manually. base-config wasn't all that
spectacular TBH.
Cheers,
FJP
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