Re: Installing packages to a foreign system

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com> writes:

> This looks like it does the trick, but I am curious; is this how the
> installer does it?  When the installer is first installing the system
> it also needs to install the packages to the hard disk, but without
> having them interfere with the running state of the installing system.
> Is this how it does that?
>
> On 9/23/2009 5:12 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Phillip Susi<psusi@cfl.rr.com>  writes:
>>
>>> I'm trying to debootstrap a system and when I chroot into it to
>>> install more packages, many fail because their configure scripts
>>> assume they are being called from a running system and try to interact
>>> with it and modify the running state, instead of just the filesystem.
>>> For example, daemon packages try to start the daemon in the configure
>>> script, which you can't do running inside a chroot.  So my question
>>> is, what is the proper way to install packages into a foreign system's
>>> filesystem such that they do not attempt to modify the running host
>>> system?
>>
>> man invoke-rc.d
>> less /usr/share/doc/sysv-rc/README.policy-rc.d.gz
>>
>> MfG
>>          Goswin
>>
>>

It is what policy dictates for every package. Would be stupid to
invent something else.

MfG
        Goswin