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Bug#498385: Using LH_BOOTSTRAP="copy" makes live-helper screw up the host system



On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 05:57:13PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> severity 498385 important
> thanks
> 
> Andreas Teuchert wrote:
> > I think the intention of this command was to copy the host system into
> > the chroot.
> 
> yep.
> 
> > But in fact it copies some files from the host system to
> > some other location in the host system. Afterwards it is very hard to
> > detect what files were copied where.
> 
> i don't get it. what's exactely the problem? *iff* you want to create a
> live system that is equivalent to the host system, then you have to copy
> it (rather than 'cloning', which only takes the same package selection).
> 

Yes, but IMHO lh_bootstrap_copy should copy the whole system into the
chroot and not some files from the system somewhere else.
But what actually is done is that "cp" copies the chroot and a long list
of files to the last file find prints out.

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