Re: booststrapping /usr-merged systems (was: Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg)
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- Subject: Re: booststrapping /usr-merged systems (was: Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg)
- From: Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>
- Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2023 16:41:04 +0100
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Raphaël Hertzog wrote:
>
>In the same spirit, I'd like to throw an idea... could we decide that
>base-files is the first package to be configured as part of the bootstrap
>protocol and change base-files maintainer's scripts into statically linked
>executables so that they can work even if we don't have the library loader
>on the ABI-compliant path?
What exactly do you mean here? You know that even a statically linked
executable needs an interpreter defined in the ELF header?
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
< sladen> I actually stayed in a hotel and arrived to find a post-it
note stuck to the mini-bar saying "Paul: This fridge and
fittings are the correct way around and do not need altering"
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