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Re: I need help to write a doc



On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 08:35:48AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 12:48:52AM +0100, Aaron Isotton wrote:
> >    I want to explain how to create a Debian chroot on other operating
> >    systems (typically other Linux distros).  The best thing would be
> >    porting debootstrap and dpkg and packaging them as tarball and as
> >    RPM.
> 
> FWIW, dpkg is already available as tarball. Go to
> <your mirror>/pool/main/d/dpkg, and download.
> 
> I don't know whether the same applies to debootstrap.

"ar x" and "tar xvzf" are all you need for binary packages instead of
dpkg to extract files.

debootstrap is shell script Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1), wget, binutils
(It have short binary program and scripts and data.)

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